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Are Comptia training instructors required to be certified in the course they teach?

Sivanesan
Gregory Childers said:
Certifications are proof you can achieve a passing criteria on a standardized exam. Mastery takes much more than passing an exam.

I work twice as hard preparing to teach a class than I ever do preparing to pass an exam.
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True we need to prepare well. Before we teach.
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Ruh Roh...More Bad Press for Gemini AI

Rick Butler
Gregory Childers said:
I have a fundamental zero trust on almost everything.

But since I'm nowhere close to retirement and it appears that AI will have an increased presence in the future, I plan on learning as much as I can about it so that I can help others use it safely, securely, and ethically.
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Right there with you. I'm sitting in the General Session for Anthology Together 24 in Orlando and they're talking about how AI is even rewriting Moore's Law in capability.

Like anything, it can be used for good or evil. And I guarantee, the use of AI aligns to the motivations of humanity, with money, power, and influence driving so much of what humanity even does.

It's terrifying. That's why I am looking forward to Dr. James Stanger's upcoming talk because I also need to address my own cynicism - not towards data driven AI, but towards how people, who I believe are tilted personal self interest, will employ AI and whether they are trying to convince us that improving the human condition equates to profit and power.

And that's about as challenging as the AI cat-dog problem.
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Took the CloudNetX Beta today

abiodun1991
Brian Wafula said:
I was honored to be chosen to be among the first to acquiree the CloudNetX inception version certification. I completed the exam today.

Advanced cloud networking skills across multiple providers, particularly cloud connectivity technologies and solutions such as VXLAN, GENEVE, CMDB, ZTNA, Wifi-6, WPA3, Wireguard VPN, DEVOPS, IaC Resource provisioning and configuration, Version Control secrets management, and QoS, were heavily featured in the exam.

Some Performance Based Questions were slightly difficult, while others were outright simple if you have actual cloud networking abilities, particularly in VPC peering, WAF, Application Gateway, and NSG configuration.

It was a rewarding challenge that I eagerly accepted to supplement my practical abilities across a wide range of cloud technologies, and I am confident of passing when the results of this beta exam are revealed in January 2025.
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Congratulation sir,
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Took the CloudNetX Beta today

Brian Wafula
I was honored to be chosen to be among the first to acquiree the CloudNetX inception version certification. I completed the exam today.

Advanced cloud networking skills across multiple providers, particularly cloud connectivity technologies and solutions such as VXLAN, GENEVE, CMDB, ZTNA, Wifi-6, WPA3, Wireguard VPN, DEVOPS, IaC Resource provisioning and configuration, Version Control secrets management, and QoS, were heavily featured in the exam.

Some Performance Based Questions were slightly difficult, while others were outright simple if you have actual cloud networking abilities, particularly in VPC peering, WAF, Application Gateway, and NSG configuration.

It was a rewarding challenge that I eagerly accepted to supplement my practical abilities across a wide range of cloud technologies, and I am confident of passing when the results of this beta exam are revealed in January 2025.
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Student question stumped the class, unable to drive the nail home for this question.

jarrelrivera
Brolen Gumb said:
In CompTIA Network+ N10-008 Student Guide, Pg. 163. or Instructor Guide Pg. 168.
Question 5 states:
5. A company has eight networks, using the subnet addresses 192.168.0.0/24,
192.168.1.0/24 … 192.168.7.0/24. What network prefix and subnet mask can be used to summarize a
supernet route to these networks?

Answer:
It takes 3 bits to summarize eight networks (23 = 8). Subtracting 3 bits from the existing network
mask makes the supernet network prefix /21. The third octet of the mask will use 5 bits, which is
248 in decimal (25 = 248), so the full mask is 255.255.248.0.

This class is unable to grasp this concept, & I am running out of ways to explain & time to stay on track to finish class where I need to for the day. Any help explaining is greatly appreciated.
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For my classes, they understand it better when they see the bits in a table.
I hope this helps.

192.168.0.01100 00001010 10000000 00000000 0000
192.168.1.01100 00001010 10000000 00010000 0000
192.168.2.01100 00001010 10000000 00100000 0000
192.168.3.01100 00001010 10000000 00110000 0000
192.168.4.01100 00001010 10000000 01000000 0000
192.168.5.01100 00001010 10000000 01010000 0000
192.168.6.01100 00001010 10000000 01100000 0000
192.168.7.01100 00001010 10000000 01110000 0000
Summary address:1100 00001010 10000000 00000000 0000
192​
168​
0​
0​
how many bits were the same?/21
what subnet mask?1111 11111111 11111111 10000000 0000
255​
255​
248​
0​
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Ruh Roh...More Bad Press for Gemini AI

Gregory Childers
Rick Butler said:
This is why I am going to be on the trailing edge of the entire AI party.

It really is a fundamental level of trust.

www.tomshardware.com

User alleges Gemini AI scanning Google Drive hosted PDF files without explicit permission — Google says otherwise

Kevin Bankston, a Senior Advisor on AI Governance, discusses this concerning Google Gemini behavior.
www.tomshardware.com www.tomshardware.com
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I have a fundamental zero trust on almost everything.

But since I'm nowhere close to retirement and it appears that AI will have an increased presence in the future, I plan on learning as much as I can about it so that I can help others use it safely, securely, and ethically.
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Student question stumped the class, unable to drive the nail home for this question.

B
Tilley IT Solution said:
Okay, let's imagine this like a big game of organizing candy!


You have 8 different boxes of candy. Each box has its special number, like 192.168.0, 192.168.1, and so on, up to 192.168.7.


Now, your mom wants to put all these boxes into one big container. She needs to find a way to label this container so that it includes all the smaller boxes inside.


The trick is to look at the numbers and see what they all have in common. In this case, they all start with 192.168, right? That's like saying all the candy is chocolate!


But we need to be a bit more specific. We notice that the last number changes from 0 to 7. In computer language, this is like saying we need the first 21 bits to be the same (because 21 bits can describe all numbers from 0 to 7).


So, the label for the big container (what grown-ups call a "supernet route") would be:


  • Network prefix: 192.168.0.0
  • Subnet mask: 255.255.248.0

This is like saying "This big box contains all the chocolate candy numbered from 0 to 7!"
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I appreciate the answer, I will give it a try! I came up with 3 separate explanations off my head similar to this but it just won't stick. I am going to need a new set of whiteboard markers, & some hair dye to undo the intellectual war that occurred today.
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Ruh Roh...More Bad Press for Gemini AI

jasoneckert
Because of all the AI buzz, I had to do a blog post explaining and positioning it that instructors at my college can direct students to.
Here it is in case anyone finds it useful or wishes to share it with their students: https://jasoneckert.github.io/myblog/demystifying-ai/
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Student question stumped the class, unable to drive the nail home for this question.

Tilley IT Training
Okay, let's imagine this like a big game of organizing candy!


You have 8 different boxes of candy. Each box has its special number, like 192.168.0, 192.168.1, and so on, up to 192.168.7.


Now, your mom wants to put all these boxes into one big container. She needs to find a way to label this container so that it includes all the smaller boxes inside.


The trick is to look at the numbers and see what they all have in common. In this case, they all start with 192.168, right? That's like saying all the candy is chocolate!


But we need to be a bit more specific. We notice that the last number changes from 0 to 7. In computer language, this is like saying we need the first 21 bits to be the same (because 21 bits can describe all numbers from 0 to 7).


So, the label for the big container (what grown-ups call a "supernet route") would be:


  • Network prefix: 192.168.0.0
  • Subnet mask: 255.255.248.0

This is like saying "This big box contains all the chocolate candy numbered from 0 to 7!"
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