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Preparing for CompTIA Certification – Any Tips to Getting My Voucher?

Hi everyone,


I'm Abdelhamid from Qdrat Institute for Training in Saudi Arabia. I currently teach foundational IT courses.


At the moment, I'm preparing myself to become a CompTIA certified trainer.
I haven’t obtained my exam voucher yet, and I’d really appreciate it if anyone could guide me on how to get it and what steps I need to follow.
I’m eager to understand the process and make sure I’m doing things the right way.


Also, if you have any tips, resources, or advice that helped you during your own certification journey, I’d love to hear them!


Thanks in advance – looking forward to learning from your experiences!

Open Educational Resources

In retirement, I still remain active in California's community college system, serving as a course reviewer in its C-ID Program. An active effort for faculty involves the creation and utilization of "free textbooks" in what is called the OER program. Two potential resources out there that relate to CompTIA certifications are available for consideration. There may be more, and if you locate them, I'd appreciate it if you'd provide the link.

Network+
Security+

Steve Linthicum, JD, CISSP
Professor Emeritus

Academic Pricing for CompTIA Academic Partners Currently Unavailable

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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Looking for a Security+ trainer in Edmonton Alberta to do a one week bootcamp

Contract Opportunity: Security+ Certified Trainer (Onsite Assignment)
Location: Mountain Time Zone (Onsite preferred, Remote considered)
Type: Contract / Assignment-Based
Language: English
Clearance: Not Required
Pinnacle Learning Centres Inc. is currently seeking a certified Security+ Trainer to deliver cybersecurity training as part of an assignment contract. This is a great opportunity to contribute to an impactful learning experience for aspiring security professionals.
Requirements:
  1. CompTIA Security+ Certification (Current Version Required)
  2. Bachelor's degree preferred
  3. Experience in classroom or professional training delivery
  4. Strong communication skills in English
  5. Ability to teach during Mountain Time hours
Local candidates preferred, but experienced distance trainers will also be considered.
Please submit the following to [email protected]:

Your updated resume
Your required salary/rate for 40 hours. If out of town, please indicate additional cost for accommodation.
Any questions you may have about the role [email protected]

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Resource access for 1200 series

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

Looking For CompTIA Training Instructors For Durham, NC

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!

Security X CEU's

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?

New E-Commerce Store Tutorials

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:
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

Xpert Series - DataX and CloudNetX

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?

Personal CompTIA account vs my Partner Approved Account

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....

Cloud Essentials+ retires on September 25, 2025

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!

New CompTIA web site launch

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/

Hiring for a contractor in Elizabeth City, NC

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!

Wondering what type of organization you work for as a trainer

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?
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Release date of the CompTIA Tech+ Instructor Edition eBook on comptia shop?

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.

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