Hey folks! While I have been teaching CompTIA for a couple of years, I just joined the CIN recently. Until now I have never thought about trying to purchase my own resources because the training companies I teach for always provided them. Now that I see my Security+ books are expired, I am curious to know where we can purchase our own instructor courseware?

Thanks in advance!

Pen Test is not as simple as we might think, it requires much understanding of all exam objectives and the technical know how of linux commands.

Hello everyone,

I'm not sure if I ever heard if we are allowed to use any of the PowerPoints slides presented in the Train
The Trainer presentations?

Thank you,
Mike

Hello, The college I work for will be putting on an A+ Certification Course. It will be a 3-Week 5:30-8P (Pacific Time). We had an instructor setup and was good to go, but he pulled out due to family reasons. The course we are building will have the Certmaster login to allow further training for the students. It will also include 2 exam vouchers.
The Class would be from Jan 17-Feb 3rd.

Please email me back at [email protected] if you have any questions or would like to assist

Thank you for your time!

Hello,

Happy 2023, all!

I saw a Linkedin group of the CIN and sent a request to join. Unfortunately, it is not approved. Waiting for approval for about a month.

Is there anyone who can help to get the approval to join the group?

Thanks!

BR,
Vusal

Now that we've reached the end of 2022, tell us what certification exams you have passed this year and which ones you plan on taking in 2023.

Exams I've passed this year:

Network+ N10-008 (fourth different version of Net+ that I've passed)
CASP+ CAS-004
Data+ DA0-001
ISC2 Certified in Cybersecurity - CC
ISACA Certified Information Security Manager (CISM)

Goals for 2023:

Linux+
CTT+
(ISC)2 Certified Cloud Security Professional (CCSP)
(ISC)2 Certifed Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP)
CSA Certificate of Cloud Security Knowledge (CCSK)
Two AWS exams
Two Microsoft Azure exams

Is anyone having issues logging into CIN via a web browser? If I try to access CIN from my laptop I get an error:

Thank you for logging in to the CompTIA Site. Unfortunately, you have not yet applied to the program, please apply here .

My phone is still logged into CIN via the App and working

I have been a member of CIN since last year. Not posted much over Christmas and first weeks of Jan due to the high work load

I hope I have not been kicked out and this is just an error

Hello esteemed CIN Members!!!

Am So Excited to tell everyone here that i passed CASP+ exam. Thanks to CompTIA for the voucher through CIN and Stephen for all the hustle done in the background and not forgetting everyone here for your support and encouragement.

Below is the list of certifications passed in 2022

Network plus
Security+
Pen Test
CASP+

I am teaching this class and discovered a glaring mistake in the slides. Who can I report this to?

Will there be any Train the Trainer series upcoming for 2023?

Hey Stephen

IM Still waiting on vouchers sense start of December 2022 Any chance of sending them on

you did say you would waiting on Server+ Pentest+ and Data+ I

Kind regards
Matthew

Howdy,

Can someone assist with a presentation planner you might have for S+ in excel format?

I'd highly appreciate it.

I've made a conscious decision to fully retire (except for volunteer work), effective June 1st. That decision is in part based upon not moving forward in maintaining my technical skills, specifically as they relate to cloud computing and coding. Living on the technological bleeding edge is simply getting too challenging. I'm wondering if I'm alone with regard this? Back in the old days, I fondly remember CompTIA certifications, by definition, lasted a lifetime. Today, with regular exam updates scheduled with a three (3) year cycle, those who follow a rule that you do not teach to a certification unless you've passed the most recent certification exam is a challenge, and one I'm no longer interested in following. With retirement "mailbox money" exceeding expenses, I'm looking forward to travel (just returned from Australia and New Zealand), with plans to head to Europe in May and South America in the fall. So I won't be hanging around here a lot.

Steve

Hi We are a Private Vocational School located in Edison, New Jersey. We have an faculty job opportunity for Cybersecurity Training Program, Remote/ Hybrid(Part Time) for CompTIA Security+ , A+, CySP,CySA. Require Hands on Experience and Teaching skills

I initially thought that earning CASP+ will renew Linux+, but it is not the case... sadly.
See link for reference.

If anyone from CompTIA Certification is reading this, I hope you'd reconsider.
Much of what needs to be learned in CASP+ covers Linux too!

You know what renews Linux+? It is Cloud+.
Not even CySA+ nor PenTest+ would renew Linux+.
*mindblown*

Well folks, I'm literally shaking and my head is pounding, but I was in a state of disbelief when I saw "Pass" on my score report.

For me, like many of you, I started off with @Lee McWhorter's Train the Trainer series. But I had to put study on hold after that because I was finishing up Cloud+. So I got the book opened in April and started in, but then, I had to do my preps for Project+ 005 beta and for the TTT series. I ran through the Project+ CertMaster materials for 005 thoroughly, before taking the beta, with the long wait to October before knowing if I had passed that or not. Just shy of the Project+ TTT, I ran through the 004 materials so as to see the differences. If you want to watch my TTT series for Project, @NATUNA's got it linked up here.

With Project+ all done, I had just a few months left to turn my attention back to the CASP. I wanted to also take the time to evaluate the CertMaster materials. So I got evals of them all, and started in, doing CM Learn, Labs, and then Practice.

So, honestly, CertMaster lays out the foundational stuff you need to know. I think there may be a couple of concepts that I didn't see in the CM materials. But for the greatest majority of it the concepts are in there, but really at a Blooms Taxonomy * 1/2 level. You are going to need to take things to the Application level. @Jill West's post did a good job at summing up some of the things from the exam, but for us instructors that are using CertMaster Learn/Labs in the classroom, just studying it alone, without practical application will not get you there, unless you're super intelligent and can put the concepts together fluidly. For the 80% of us (ref: Pareto's law), CertMaster Learn/Labs will not at all replace a solid instructor. But put a solid instructor in there, who can walk through the applicative stuff, like WHY running commands and their associated switches will give you the information you're seeking, versus just knowing what commands like vmstat, for example, do. I didn't see too much more content gain using CM Learn vs. using the CompTIA book. I think, at the end of the day, it comes down to approach and gives you that 'self-guided course' feel.

(* If you don't know Blooms Taxonomy, review it right quick, so you can get the context of what I'm trying to say here)

Rest assured, fellow instructors, CertMaster is not an AI that will put you out of a job. CertMaster will, if you use it right, focus your study and orient you in the right direction. The way I see it, if you use the Scouts BSA EDGE Method religiously in the classroom, with CM Learn/Labs along side, assuming your student is attentive and motivated, all your classes will be great.

Which brings me to CertMaster Practice - I really don't think, are generally certification grade. They are heavy Knowledge and Understanding based with a couple reaching into Application. CASP admittedly is for the candidate who has been doing security work for a few years and even soft-prereq's CySA+, Linux+, and PenTest+ before going in. So, yes, drill the questions from CM Practice to get the fundamental concepts down, but again, a candidate is really going to need to practice doing stuff. Reading code snippets, running vulnerability scans with Nessus or Greenbone, doing some pen testing, fiddling with Aircrack-ng, actually doing a key stretch - stuff like this. I would love to see more realistic PBQs and VM Sim questions in CertMaster Practice. This is where I think things like Cyber Skyline or HackTheBox are really good at augmenting knowledge - by really doing stuff.

As we know, students, and even some of us, don't go into certifications like we've been doing it for 20 years. Usually, we're stretching upward to get the bigger cert, which is why we all have to study and work at it. So the expectation here is that we want the materials that we use to provide that coverage. This is also what makes braindumps so alluring, because they just tell a candidate what's on the test, rather than actually learning and/or testing out of knowledge acquired in the field.

Well, I'm gonna wind this post up and say congrats to all of you that wound up the year finishing a cert, whether it be CASP+ or something else. Onto 2023 for me and I hope you too!

Rick

mates,
I'm getting this message can someone tell me whats wrong?

@Stephen Schneiter or CompTIA Admins

if anyone is reading this bring in Certmaster renewal for Casp+ in 2023 make it easier to renew for the practitioners best present CompTIA Could give to the CASP+ holders or at least update the renewal to accept Microsoft Cybersecurity Architect sc-100 Exam as this covered everything in CASP+

We already have this for A+ Network+ and Security+ time to bring it in for CASP+


enough said
Regards

I am so excited! What a great way to end the year.

Thank you, @Stephen Schneiter, @Jill Thielmann, and @comptia, for the TTT CASP+ voucher and study materials. Thank you, @Lee McWhorter, and all the others that shared their CASP+ escapades.

Due to other pressing matters this past year, I only was able to prepare for CASP+ for 1.5 months prior to sitting the exam while working 60-hour weeks at 2 jobs.

My pass score result was posted in PearsonVue in less than 25 minutes.

This is how I prepared:

1. Study and teach CompTIA Security+, Network+, CySA+ <!-- (PenTest+ in 2023) -->
2. Re-acquaint myself with my previous Linux and Web technology knowledge
3. Attend CASP+ TTT
4. CompTIA Learn and Labs
4. ITPro.tv CASP+ course (completed 60%)
5. KaplanLearn practice exam (completed 30%)
6. prayed some

As I always say, CIN has changed my life. This place is a gem.

Happy New Year, Everyone!

I look forward to knocking out Data+, PenTest+, and ITF+, plus the upcoming TTTs and the enhanced Data track. What a year 2022 was here at CIN. 2023 will be just as epic.

Hod

Let's say someone takes a beta exam in January. They then take the soon-to-be retired version of the same exam in March before they even get the result of the beta in May. What are the possible scenarios? Does anyone know for sure?

(It's not entirely hypothetical. Someone on reddit said they're about to do just that w/ CySA+.)

My guesses...
Fail beta in Jan but pass retiring version in Mar? Certified as of Mar.
Pass beta in Jan but fail retiring version in Mar? Certified as of Jan.
Pass beta in Jan and pass retiring version in Mar? Certified as of Jan (and maybe renewed as of Mar date?)

Did something recently change? I had some of my students today tell me that they were advised that they could not return to questions once they had skipped them and would not be able to go back and review flagged questions. First heard here, just trying to get to the ground truth.

Hello Everybody,

Has anyone received the Linux XK0-005 TTT voucher yet?

Hi there, g'day!

I'm currently prepping to take the CTT+ exams and am looking forward to the experience very much. I was surprised to see that CTT+ is excluded from the test-at-home online testing that will go live in about a week's time -> http://comptia.org/testing/online-testing-interest-form

Online testing is not available in China, Cuba, Iran, Japan, North Korea, South Korea, Slovenia, Sudan, and Syria. Other exclusions include CTT+ and any site licenses.

Click to expand...

I'm very curious as to why the theoretical part of the CTT+ examination would be excluded. It does not strike me as dissimilar to the other tests.