Shout out to all our CIN members in the APAC region! Join us for an informative webinar where we’ll share updates, insights, and plans for the future of CompTIA.

Register here!

Date: June 16th, 2025

Start time:

• India: 10:30am
• Indonesia/Thai: 12:00pm
• Malaysia/Singapore/Philippines 1:00pm
• Japan: 2:00pm
• Australia: 3:00pm

Here’s what you can expect:
What’s Changed and What’s Stayed the Same

• Key updates from Peter Schalkwijk, Vice President for APAC Business Development, CompTIA.
• Our global vision for 2025 and specific goals for the APAC region.

CompTIA Roadmap Overview & Updates

• The value and positioning of CompTIA in the training and certification space.
• Learning platform transition.
• New website experience.
• Exciting product launches and updates for 2024/2025.
• How certifications are designed to work in APAC countries.

Q&A Session

• Get your questions answered live by our experts.

Kindly confirm if you have distributed Security X and CloudNetX vouchers @Stephen Schneiter

The On It Foundation is a national nonprofit organization committed to closing the digital divide by providing free computers, STEM/STEAM education, and career development programs to under-resourced K-12 youth and their families across the United States. Our mission aligns closely with CompTIA’s values of promoting access, equity, and opportunity in the tech workforce and empowering individuals for all.

Celebrating 25 years of providing service, we are expanding our collaborative and partnership efforts in workforce development, emerging technology, and manufacturing. The On It Foundation brings deep national community roots, impactful programs, and a passion for workforce readiness that will strengthen our shared efforts.

We look forward to engaging with the CompTIA community and learning best practices as we scale our workforce development initiatives.

Calvetta Phair – Founder
The On It Foundation Website: https://theonitfoundation.org/
Email: [email protected]
Phone: (305) 244-6454

Hi,

We a re a nonprofit organization researching requirements for hosting evening and possibly Saturday CompTIA training courses. We have not done this before, but think it could be a good fit for our organization. Please provide any requirements, technical or other, for your services outside of CompTIA standards. Both in-person and remote training can be accommodated. At this time, we are open to instruction for all certifications. Instructors must be certified in the curses they teach. As this is an informal inquiry, all qualifications are subject to change, based on organizational needs. Those interested can contact us at hlc.comptia.hillcenter.org

Thank you for your interest!

I recently gained instructor access to the TestOut Platform, so I haven’t completed a full course there yet—unlike CertMaster, where I’ve finished several courses either as exam prep or to earn CEUs. Does anyone know if completing the SecurityX training (or any other course) on TestOut provides a certificate of completion, and whether that certificate can be used to claim CEUs for renewing the CASP+/SecurityX cert? Also, I noticed they’ve added a lot of new training content for Cisco, Microsoft, and other platforms. Do those courses also qualify for CEUs?

Very well presented Core 1 & Core 2 TTT sessions by Ms. Lynn Warne. Had to watch "on demand" but enjoyed each session!
Thank you for all the new materials being offered in the Certmaster/TestOut platform, we have been using it for years...

Hi @Stephen Schneiter and @Rick Butler

May I kindly ask how we can activate the resources (teaching aids) for the A+ 1200 series, specifically the trial lab access available under the Train-the-Trainer (TTT) series? Additionally, could you please advise on what we should communicate to the CompTIA representative to proceed with the activation?


Looking forward to your guidance.


Best regards,
RV

CompTIA launched its new website and e-commerce store on Tuesday this week. I have seen a few questions about the site and making purchases.
There have been a number of videos created to help users walk through several areas of the new website.

The topics for these videos include:

• New Account Creation:
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• Student Account Creation with SheerID callout:
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• CompTIA Central:
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• Navigating Purchasing:
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• B2B Customer Profile Set-up (Tax exempt, W-9, Line of credit):
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Please note that this currently just affects U.S. customers. The International store will be launching a little later this year. If you are having issues trying to place an order, you need to reach out to your account representative. I hope these videos will be able to answer some questions and are helpful.

Thank you,
Stephen

Hello,

Where can I find CompTIA associates who work with colleges. I'm an instructor with Rowan College of Gloucester County in NJ. Im having an issue with my students registering on the Certmaster platform. Any assistance would be beneficial.

Thanks,
Brandon Groves

There are three XPert Series exams: SecurityX, DataX, and CloudNetX.

SecurityX (formerly CASP+) is an expert level cybersecurity certification. It is higher level than Security+, CySA+, and PenTest+. It also renews each of these certifications.

DataX is an expert level data science certification. It is a higher level than Data+ and DataSys+. It currently does not renew either of these certifications.

CloudNetX is an expert level networking certification. It is a higher level than Network+ and Cloud+. It currently does not renew either of these certifications.

Does anyone know if DataX or CloudNetX will renew lower level certs or provide partial CEUs for lower level certs at some point in the future?

@Stephen Schneiter, do you have any information about these certifications?

Would it still be possible to get a voucher or discount for the CompTIA Tech+ certification exam? I even took the webinars last year and received the voucher, but due to other priorities I ended up letting time pass and it expired. I plan to take the exam later this year. Thanks for any help or guidance. &;-D

Hi, just like to ask, I have my existing comptia account tied up to my personal account, now, we got approved as a partner, I logged in and registered using my corporate email which dont have any certifications tied up. Is there a way to combine those two? or do I need to combine those two? or just leave it like that,,, the CIN requires business email....

I already watched the entire series of SecurityX CAS-005 on demand. When will I get the voucher?

This makes the fourth CompTIA certification I've earned that has been retired.

Important Update: Cloud Essentials+ Certification Retirement

As part of CompTIA’s ongoing efforts to align our product offerings, the Cloud Essentials+ Certification will be permanently retired later this year.

The last day to take the Cloud Essentials+ Certification exam is September 25, 2025.

You must schedule and complete your exam before this date!

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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?

I went to the main CompTIA website today and was greeted with the following message:

We're excited to announce the launch of our new and improved website experience!
To prepare for this transition, this site will be temporarily unavailable on June 3, 2025, from 10:00 AM CST to 1:00 PM CST.

View our status at http://status.comptia.net/

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There is no Lab reference available for Core 1 Certmaster learn Labs,

Hello!
I noticed that on the comptia store there are only labs for the core 2 series 12. Why?
are they in the planning stage or what?

thanks!

Is there no lab available like a Certmaster Lab for A+ Core1 V15- 220-1201, its only available for A+ Core 2 V15-220-1202,

Partly plagiarized from another post as she received great responses and feedback and wanted to keep it rolling..

We're looking for experienced trainers/mentors to join our team and teach a variety of CompTIA IT / Cyber / Cloud / PMP / CSM / Azure certification courses, including:

• IT Fundamentals +
• CompTIA A+
• Network+
• Security+
• Cloud+
• PenTest+
• CySA+
• CASP
• PMP
• ITIL
• Scrum
• Azure

About Us
We are a start up IT company out of Elizabeth City, NC. Our mission is to organically grow IT professionals in the local community to support local businesses, local, state and federal customers. We would prefer in person classes but willing to do remote work for the right candidate. We are in discussions with a local community college to partner with their workforce development which could lead to a more permanent job however, as of now this assignment would be contract work, part time. Active certification maintained through CEU's works or certified in the latest version of the above certifications. No degree required. No clearance is necessary but would be a bonus. Local trainers would be ideal however training can be remote for the right individual/s. Eastern Standard Time. Language would be English.

What We're Looking For

• Experienced Instructors: Prior hands on experience in the field as well as teaching, training, and mentoring experience in all of the above.
• Certifications: Must hold current certifications in what you will be teaching.
• Flexibility: Local trainers are preferred but delivery is remote for the right candidate. Times would be between 0800-1600 EST.
• Engaging Educators: Trainers who can inspire and guide students, ensuring strong engagement and high pass rates as well as job placement rates.
• Please ensure you can keep the class engaged, lighthearted and fun.

• Competitive Pay: Starting at $30/hour with opportunities for increases/bonuses based on performance, student engagement, after class attention to student needs, pass rates and job placement rates. Time can be spent assisting the school in process improvements, new ideas to attract new students and provide successful outcomes for all.
• We would like to also include ITIL, Scrum, and PMP, Azure, AWS, CISM, CISSP. If you’re certified in these areas or know someone who is, we’d love to discuss.

Looking to have our first class 16 June for IT fundamentals + so looking any and all responses. If you have any short recordings of previous classes I would love to take a look.

my email is

[email protected]

You can email your resume or drop it off on our webpage under careers.

Thank you and we look forward to working with you!

Hi I'm from the Philippines. Looking for a remote part time teaching role. I can teach Network+, A+ and Sec+.

Anyone hiring here? We can discuss the details privately.

please email me via [email protected] or you can drop your email in the thread.

Hello all. I'm trying to get an idea of the kinds of organizations that are employing CompTIA instructors. Apologies if I missed some blatantly obvious source of that information (someone please tell me if I did), but i really only have a vague idea of what kinds of organizations need CompTIA instructors.

My initial wild guess includes:

• IT training companies
• Corporations with large IT staff
• Trade schools and career centers (I work for one of these)
• Independent trainers

What am I missing? Is anyone willing to educate me here?

Thanks @Stephen Schneiter I have finally received my complimentary Cloud+ voucher.

Mapping CompTIA to Apprenticeship’s can give industrial insights to academic qualifications but how many of you do this?

I'm glad to see the CompTIA Tech+ eBook after the website changes, which currently seems to only be available as a Student Edition. However, I'm looking for the Instructor Edition. How much longer until the CompTIA Tech+ Instructor Edition eBook is released/available.