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benphiri · Sep 13, 2025

I am excited to be part of the CompTIA Instructor Network

dabsolon · Sep 13, 2025

Nathan Miller Masiku said:
Hi Eddy, not yet. If I remember correctly, there was a communiqué from Stephen on the platform saying he would give us an update once the CompTIA Data team has finished consolidating the information

Received my A+ core voucher today

Danai Nathan Chinyenye · Sep 13, 2025

Stephen Schneiter said:
Hi CINners! Quick update on the A+ vouchers. I just found out that the A+ Core 1 vouchers will go out this afternoon and I am hoping the Core 2 vouchers will go out next week! I will post an update as soon as I hear about the exact date for Core 2.

Thanks again for everyone's patience! Good luck on your respec

Stephen Schneiter said:
Hi CINners! Quick update on the A+ vouchers. I just found out that the A+ Core 1 vouchers will go out this afternoon and I am hoping the Core 2 vouchers will go out next week! I will post an update as soon as I hear about the exact date for Core 2.

Thanks again for everyone's patience! Good luck on

Stephen Schneiter said:
Hi CINners! Quick update on the A+ vouchers. I just found out that the A+ Core 1 vouchers will go out this afternoon and I am hoping the Core 2 vouchers will go out next week! I will post an update as soon as I hear about the exact date for Core 2.

Thanks again for everyone's patience! Good luck on your respective exams!

Hi @Stephen Schneiter, thank you for the Core1 voucher I received.

shaify · Sep 12, 2025

Stephen Schneiter said:
Hi CINners! Quick update on the A+ vouchers. I just found out that the A+ Core 1 vouchers will go out this afternoon and I am hoping the Core 2 vouchers will go out next week! I will post an update as soon as I hear about the exact date for Core 2.

Thanks again for everyone's patience! Good luck on your respective exams!

Hi @Stephen Schneiter thank you for the voucher .. received Core1

Jill West · Sep 12, 2025

But did it have subnetting questions on it?

Stephen Schneiter · Sep 12, 2025

Hi CINners! Quick update on the A+ vouchers. I just found out that the A+ Core 1 vouchers will go out this afternoon and I am hoping the Core 2 vouchers will go out next week! I will post an update as soon as I hear about the exact date for Core 2.

Thanks again for everyone's patience! Good luck on your respective exams!

Stephen Schneiter · Sep 12, 2025

Hi CINners! Thanks @Nathan Miller Masiku, you are correct. I did hear that A+ Core 1 vouchers, should go out later today! I am hoping Core 2 vouchers will go out next week!

Stephen Schneiter · Sep 12, 2025

Emmanuel Phakula Mandala said:
@Stephen Schneiter When is CompTIA Data + Beta results coming out

Beta results are always posted right before the exam launches. So, I would expect results sometime in the second week of October.

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ehabmd75 · Sep 12, 2025

Microsoft Certified Trainer from 2005

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Microsoft Certified Trainer from 2005

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jarrelrivera · Sep 11, 2025

I've never used the tac command. I know it, just never used it.

The common commands I use for viewing the contents of a file are cat, less, more, head, tail, nano and vim. All of the commands I've mentioned are in the exam objectives for Linux+. I'm not sure about tac.

grep is a command that is very common in many of the CompTIA exams whether, it'd be for Linux+, Security+, CySA+, Pentest+ and even SecurityX (formerly CASP+). I personally use grep in many scripts.

aside from grep, I also suggest knowing sed and awk

Shea Bennett · Sep 11, 2025

Amazing session for the new Linux+ v.8 (006) exam TTT session today 9/11/2025.

Jason went over the tac command and many other options. I'm not even embarrassed to say I have never used the tac command or searched in files with grep. Excellent and eye opening session. I truly and completely appreciate going back to the roots and fundamentals. One thing I will say about Linux I truly love and enjoy. You never stop learning!

Shea Bennett · Sep 11, 2025

Oracle Virtualbox is easier to use and the load is lighter than Hyper-V. When I setup my classes, I'm using native Linux to really deep dive for real world ops. We don't have any Hyper-V in any of our datacenters. Only AWS/GCP Cloud, RHEL/Rocky Linux, Oracle Linux and VMware, OpenStack or Proxmox. So, unless your a primarily Windows shop. I wouldn't use it.

Prof. Alex O Akpodiete · Sep 11, 2025

jasoneckert said:
Hyper-V is a Type 1 (bare-metal) hypervisor that comes with Windows Pro and higher editions (though it can be installed on Home if you look up how). Being Type 1 means Hyper-V runs directly on the hardware, with a lightweight virtualization layer in between. This allows near-native performance.

In contrast, Oracle VirtualBox is a Type 2 (hosted) hypervisor by default—it runs as a regular application on top of Windows. As a result, all VM hardware access must go through the Windows OS first, which adds overhead and reduces performance compared to Type 1 hypervisors.

So, in general, Hyper-V is faster than VirtualBox by default.

However, there’s a neat trick: if you have both Hyper-V and VirtualBox installed, you can configure VirtualBox to use Hyper-V as its backend. To do this:

Open the settings for your VirtualBox VM,

Go to System > Acceleration,

Set Paravirtualization Interface to Hyper-V.

This allows VirtualBox to leverage Hyper-V’s performance benefits while maintaining VirtualBox’s compatibility and features.

Why is this useful? In cybersecurity, many pre-built VM targets and OS images are packaged specifically for VirtualBox. So for students taking a cybersecurity course, it makes sense to use VirtualBox—but enabling Hyper-V paravirtualization gives the best of both worlds: broad compatibility and improved performance.

If you're not teaching a cybersecurity course, however, it makes sense to have a simpler setup where you just stick with Hyper-V for faster, cleaner VM performance on Windows.

I teach numerous cybersecurity and digital forensics courses, which means I often use Kali and Parrot (as discussed in the training), and occasionally CSI Linux. I will try the "Set Paravirtualization Interface to Hyper-V" before the class tonight and do a few labs to see. Thanks.

Prof. Alex O Akpodiete · Sep 11, 2025

Rick Butler said:
Overall, I like them both. I've used both and both are great platforms for different reasons. Also, KVM is a good tool for long-term virtualization projects.

For the labs, I chose to do them on Oracle VB. My students or clients are not always on Windows Host OS

Prof. Alex O Akpodiete · Sep 11, 2025

Rafael Caballero said:
Is there a TTT for Linux going on and if so can you share the link please.

Yes. Tonight at 6 pm CDT is Session 2 of 10, but you can also watch on Demand. The link to register is: https://event.on24.com/eventRegistration/EventLobbyServlet?target=reg20.jsp&eventid=5041632&sessionid=1&key=6F62B2E049FDCB1B2803E6565AE998D8&groupId=6282903&utm_term=N/A&utm_campaign=CIN-TTT-Series-Webinar-Linux+-Follow-Up-091125&utm_medium=email&utm_source=dynamics-RTM&utm_content=CompTIA-CIN-TTT-Linux-Follow-Up-091125&sourcepage=register#msdynmkt_trackingcontext=e7a1a305-a92e-4b2b-bedb-e4fbdd750100

Emmanuel Phakula Mandala · Sep 11, 2025

@Stephen Schneiter When is CompTIA Data + Beta results coming out

sharma_sid · Sep 11, 2025

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Rick Butler · Sep 11, 2025

I realize that - and I thought I mentioned that in my previous post - which is why I always argued about what it looks like based on what it does.

jasoneckert · Sep 11, 2025

Rick Butler said:
I always debated this point en principio - of whether Hyper-V was a true type 1 hypervisor, because it requires Windows to be loaded as the OS before the hypervisor runs. Now, other folks would say, "Hyper-V is part of the Windows OS", so by extension, makes it Type 1, etc etc. I know MSFT claims that when Hyper-V is loaded, it adds a hypervisor layer to run on bare-metal and the "host" Windows OS becomes 'virtualized'.

Hurts my head, sometimes...

Hyper-V is definitely a Type 1 hypervisor, even though it comes with the Windows operating system. This is because it sits underneath the Windows host OS once you install it as shown below. This is also why, when you install Hyper-V for the first time on Windows, it reboots to load Hyper-V before loading the Windows OS, and why your host OS IP configuration is no longer set on your physical NIC, but on a virtual NIC that references the physical NIC via the underlying Hyper-V (just like other virtual machines). In a Type 1 hypervisor, the host OS is merely an auto-loaded virtual machine that can also manage the hypervisor (i.e., has Hyper-V Manager) and equally shares access to the hardware with all other virtual machines on the system.

Rick Butler · Sep 10, 2025

jasoneckert said:
Hyper-V is a Type 1 (bare-metal) hypervisor that comes with Windows Pro and higher editions (though it can be installed on Home if you look up how). Being Type 1 means Hyper-V runs directly on the hardware, with a lightweight virtualization layer in between. This allows near-native performance.

I always debated this point en principio - of whether Hyper-V was a true type 1 hypervisor, because it requires Windows to be loaded as the OS before the hypervisor runs. Now, other folks would say, "Hyper-V is part of the Windows OS", so by extension, makes it Type 1, etc etc. I know MSFT claims that when Hyper-V is loaded, it adds a hypervisor layer to run on bare-metal and the "host" Windows OS becomes 'virtualized'.

Hurts my head, sometimes...

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