Stephen Schneiter said:

Get ready to participate in a hands-on, practical cyber exercise with CompTIA, Cubic, and Cloud Range Cyber. For the next CompTIA Learning session, we’ll be conducting a cyber range exercise focused on protecting critical communications infrastructure. This will be a workshop, so prepare yourselves to interact with experts as you learn unique skill combinations that solve today’s critical issues. Throughout the session, AWS and Cubic will outline critical ways to manage, improve, and secure Mission Partner Environment (MPE) networks and communications. They will outline ways to cope with Denied, Degraded, Intermittent, and Limited (DDIL) environments, for example. All the while, we will all work hand-in-hand in a cyber range. We’ll be working inline and in real-time with experts who will help you learn the skills to help unify and secure edge and cloud for better communications and outcomes.

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Great share!

dmayer5 said:

Hello everyone, I know Andrew Crotty (Ginger Hacker) just introduced himself, so I thought I'd do the same! I have been working with Andrew at The Ginger Hacker Initiative and am a Cybersecurity Engineer at an MSSP. I'm a big fan of CompTIA and hold 7 active certifications! I come from a law enforcement background and am excited to give back to the community. Looking forward to collaborating with everyone here!


Feel free to connect with me on LinkedIn as well! https://www.linkedin.com/in/dannypmayer/

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Thanks for sharing!

jpdeguzman said:

Hey everyone! Hope you're all doing great

I'm a new A+ instructor and just getting started. Quick question, where can I find extra training resources like slides or the Instructor Guide? I’ve checked CompTIA Central and here’s what I’ve got access to so far:

A+ Core 1 and Core 2 CertMaster Learn
A+ Core 1 and Core 2 CertMaster Perform
A+ Core 1 and Core 2 CertMaster Study

Thank you all in advance!

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ALl the best

Jzol said:

I applied also and never heard back so guess we will all be waiting.

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It's like they are not receiving the application

I applied also and never heard back so guess we will all be waiting.

Will there be a recording? InfoSec World is going on that day I really want to learn from it from a sadly hands-off workshop lol

superguruman said:

Register Ready !

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Looking forward to it.

From what I see, the PPT slides aren't actually shared - just the links to the ON24 sessions you must register for (which include downloadable PPTs) alongside the labs I encourage others to freely use/share (and a Rocky Linux version of the Fedora setup that still lists Fedora throughout ;-).

Whether you can reuse/share the PPTs from each ON24 session you attended, well that's more a question for Stephen

Stephen Schneiter said:

Our next TTT series will focus on the CompTIA Data+ V2 certification. Join CIN and special guest @Kwabena Fred as he Leads the Data+ TTT series. Fred will cover the exam objectives and provide hands on examples as you strengthen your Data Analytics skills. We will discuss how to cover the content with students and suggest various labs to let students gain hands-on experience as they prepare for certification.

The CompTIA Data+ certification exam covers the following domains.

• Explain data concepts: Database types, data structures, file extensions, and data types.
• Identify data sources: Databases, APIs, website data, files, logs and repositories.
• Recognize infrastructure concepts: Cloud, on-premise, storage, and containerization.
• Identify data tools: Coding environments, BI software, and analysis platforms.
• Understand AI concepts: Identify AI models, natural language processing, and robotic automation.

What: CIN TTT Series: Data+ V2
When: October 28 - December 4, 2025 (Ten sessions), 1:00 - 3:00 PM CDT
Who: Frederick Anaafi
Where: ON24
Register Now

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Just registered and cant wait to start.

Good morning everyone, I have enjoyed the Linux + V8 TTT course as well. I have the Linux Essentials Certification and have used UNIX before and Linux to an extent for Database Administration in the Military. But, I have learned so much from this course and thanks for putting this together. I had finished all the videos in the series and look forward to getting the voucher to test.

jpdeguzman said:

Hi Everyone, new Instructor here. Where can I watch or attend the Train-the-Trainer? Thank you in advance!

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Welcome to the community.

Follow the forum of the certification you want to attend its TTT, and they will announce any new TTT.

jpdeguzman said:

Hey everyone! Hope you're all doing great

I'm a new A+ instructor and just getting started. Quick question, where can I find extra training resources like slides or the Instructor Guide?

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Hello @jpdeguzman, welcome to the neighborhood! Congrats on your new A+ course! You need to have instructor access turned on to your course you listed above. Once that is done you will see the ellipse button off to the side when you log into the platform for instructor resources. Once you click the ellipse menu, click the resources item. There you will find the resources to help plan out and deliver your course.

If you do not see the option, you will need to reach out ot you CompTIA Customer Success representative to have them activate it for you. They can also assist you with questions about managing your course and students.

Tanja Jacobsen said:

Yay registered!

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Thank you - also registered

Welcome Danny, its great to have you here. I will be glad to follow your conversation with Andrew about criminality and what moves those bad guys who puts everyone else at risk.

Registered. Thank you @Stephen Schneiter

Hi Everyone, new Instructor here. Where can I watch or attend the Train-the-Trainer? Thank you in advance!

Also registered, thank you, Stephen

I have the full number of session links on Gitlab. You will need your CIN Email that was registered to view. This is a @jasoneckert Gitlab fork with my own notes.

Stephen Schneiter said:

Hi @Shea Bennett, as others have mentioned, we will not offer another PenTest+ TTT series until the new version of the exam launches. You can view the current version on-demand from the Resource area here in the community. https://cin.comptia.org/resources/categories/cin-ttt-series.32/

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Thank you so much!!!

Gregory Childers said:

It means that CompTIA will lose all training business to others and will only provide certifications. CompTIA's official curriculum has been sliding for a couple of decades, but the current format may kill it off entirely.

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I don't know if that's the case; there's too much revenue to be had in subscription-based training. And there are folks out there that think CertMaster is great, particularly with the incorporations of LabSim's materials. I know there was a lot of concern among the authors and content producers that CompTIA was forcing them out of the market.

I'm just glad to see that there is a vibrant market where there are options for different learning styles.

Rick Butler said:

I think we can all tell stories of the paper-certs that we've encountered in the field. It's frustrating because I know the sweat equity that I put into attaining and keeping my certs - in fact, I go through the material every time I renew, just so I can make sure I remember the things I may not be sharp with.

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When I recertify for something I've certified in previously, I just read the exam objectives and brush up on the 10%-15% that has changed. I took the current Net+ and Sec+ without even looking at the exam objectives.

Rick Butler said:

It's a mindset. But again, it comes down to that sense of entitlement.

I remember a local area college here (some time ago) in Colorado Springs that would advertise, "Get your MCSE and make $65,000 per year!" as a line to drive enrollments. A lot of students went there and didn't walk away with their MCSE. They sued the school for false advertising, as if paying their tuition automatically granted them a cert and a salary. So the schools were to blame because they wanted enrollments.

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I see ads like that online all the time. Take our training and go from zero to hero in six weeks. You can be a cybersecurity professional!

Except you can't. No one can in six weeks. No company is dumb enough to hire someone with zero practical technical experience for a cybersecurity job. That's a mid-career option, not an entry-level job. Certifications are not a substitute for experience. They are a validation of knowledge.

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The students were also to blame for mismanaged expectations. I had one student in my program threaten to sue because they weren't prepared to take the Network+ after the six week course. He cited the instructor and the curriculum. But he didn't realize that I was wise to the fact to the fact that he wasn't even engaged in the course. Turns out, he spent most every day on Facebook or other social media, getting a little too friendly with the lady-folk and not paying attention to the intricacies of the OSI model. But somehow it was OUR fault. Well, the threats didn't go anywhere, particularly when I crafted a catch up plan for him. He didn't want to do the work, but he did want the cert and thought by parking his stupid rump in a chair in a Net+ classroom, he'd get the information by osmosis or something.

It's a story, both common and annoying, of which we all can speak to.

/r

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I blame training companies and educational institutions for LYING to students. I'm tired of sugar coating it. They're not exaggerating. They're lying.

The path to a cybersecurity career begins with grunt work. Help desk, desktop support, computer repair, and basic networking. Then moving into slightly more technical work, including work with servers and automation. Maybe they have enough experience five years into their career before someone gives them a break in cybersecurity.

I don't care if they crammed their way to a CISSP and are in the top 1% on HackTheBox. Little to no experience equates to little to no chance you're worth hiring. And college degrees for IT aren't worth the paper they're printed on without real-world, professional experience. A bachelor's degree can't even guarantee a help desk job, and going straight from a bachelor's to a master's with no work experience means that you paid a fortune to compete for entry-level jobs with high school grads with a few certs.

AI will eliminate a lot of entry-level jobs, so the younger generations will have to develop a work ethic in overdrive or pick a different career. The high skill jobs will suffer more, as fewer and fewer people are added to the talent pipeline. For us, more seasoned technical folks, we'll be fine through retirement because no one can do what we do. But I have doubts about the future.

Rick Butler said:

I don't think we'll see that from CompTIA, given their current trajectory with CertMaster products. And that's okay to me, because it gives the other publishers and authors a great opportunity to put their materials in the hands of learners and instructors. I can think of two, here on CIN, even, that would find an opportunity there.

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It means that CompTIA will lose all training business to others and will only provide certifications. CompTIA's official curriculum has been sliding for a couple of decades, but the current format may kill it off entirely.

I also applied for the beta but never heard back as well

Michael Schmitz said:

For SecurityX Cert. you need 75 Points. for Cysa 60
That counts for all Exams below, except Cloud.

I think passing the Exam SecurityX befor Dec. is the best way. it is not harder then Security + (imho). Just a little bit more Top down Approche...


Or you apply the Hours for the TTT of SecurityX to the CySA Renewal. (that will not get you to the 60 Points).

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SecurityX I would agree to go into that choice, would renew everything below