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Academic Pricing for CompTIA Academic Partners Currently Unavailable

Jzol
Mike Leih said:
I am attempting to purchase exam vouchers for my students, and it appears that with the new website store, academic pricing is not available. Is anyone else experiencing this issue? Does anyone know how to purchase vouchers for students at the academic price now that PearsonVue no longer sells CompTIA vouchers and the new CompTIA store is not supporting academic pricing?
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maybe one day PearsonVue can stop proctoring as well too...ugh...but everything is going SSO. It's all still changing and moving and I also need to check how I merge all my things because I teach the classes and have certs. But the vouchers should still work fine? Any good updates?
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1201/1202 student material - Academic Partner Price increases?

Jzol
Tangobro said:
Just got notified that the A+ class that I was supposed to start teaching next week was cancelled because the the cost of core 1 & 2 student material now exceeds the budget of $180 per student. Does anyone have a copy of the Academic Partner price list? Maybe I can cobble together something on the cheap, or at least verify that they are looking at Academic Partner pricing. I've been teaching this class for this institution for 2 years, 1st time with this problem.
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Since everything is merging and moving around at my college, our bookstore is cheaper. It all depends on the reps. It is sad to see the whole website change. For individuals if they want to buy something off of the website there are different types of courses so Certmaster perform is the top tier and then they have labs, learn, etc. and are dividing everything. I had to confirm from my rep that the price sticks even at the academic rate when my students confirm their student ID, it is still expensive :(
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Credential Value index

Rick Butler
The pendulum always swings.

Every few years, we see articles like these that poo-poo on this certification or that credential. Whether it's someone in the education sector that is trying to accentuate the importance of secondary education (as a means to get more students to take out phat student loans), or the certification crowd saying, "see, you don't REALLY need a degree to do the job", while there are hordes of students who are trying to find that ever changing magic formula that's going to get them hired for big bucks into that dream job.

Indeed and Reddit are the worst when it comes to all that.

At the end of the day, I think the best advice I'd ever give someone coming up is to be an expert in the material - whether through a degree or cert and let that carry you into that first interview. There are no silver bullets in any of this - it's all about the right combination of credential when a job swings around.

As to the BGI tool - well, I wonder if it has enough real data to substantiate.
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Knowing NIST

Rick Butler
Mitch Garvis said:
I have a couple of students who are telling me that on a practice exam they were asked to identify a particular NIST publication. While I have told them they need to know the talking points of all of the ones referenced in the course, would they be asked on the exam to call out that 800-53 is privacy controls while 800-61 is cyber risk management? I do not remember a question like that... although I think another exam I sat had them.

Thanks in advance!
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I seem to remember a couple questions that had the NIST publications identified in the answers. Can't give you a lot of details, since it's been a little while and I've had my head down on so many other things as of late. However, knowing the relevant NIST certs, to me, is a good thing always.
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Are Project+ and Server+ changing from "good for life" to CE certifications?

Rick Butler
I never saw any e-mails on that either. But I would not be surprised by the move. I can see a CE requirement for Project+, as things tend to shift in the world of PM. Server+...well, perhaps not as pervasive unless we wanted to focus more on virtual server technology, rather than on-prem servers. But then, that would cross over into Cloud+, which is a CE cert already.
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Credential Value index

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The Wall Street Journal recently posted an article, based on research from the Burning Glass Institute, questioning the value of certs. The WSJ title was "Skill Certificates Rarely Pay Off."
Seems they did not clearly distinguish certificates from certifications.

This tool shows some interesting findings:

BGI - The Credential Value Index

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Cautionary tale for IT professionals

jasoneckert
I recently visited a Canadian National Park. While in the visitor's centre, I stopped to take some of the pamphlets at the at the round information kiosk:

Lady behind kiosk: If you like, you can sign our visitor's guestbook over here.
Me: Sure, I'd like that.
Lady behind kiosk: So, where are you coming from today?
Me: Cambridge, in the Kitchener-Waterloo area of Ontario.
Lady behind kiosk: That's great - I have family who live in Waterloo and Guelph.
Me: So you know the area well, then!
Lady behind kiosk: I do. What does your shirt mean?
Me: Oh, that's a tech pun - I work in the tech industry and the shirts they give out at tech conferences usually have punny slogans.
Lady behind kiosk: You work in tech? Would you know why this iPad we have can no longer connect to the printer here?

Yes, I ended up fixing the DirectPrint settings in the app for their Brother printer.
If you work in IT, remember: No matter how far you go, the printers will find you... :cautious:
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