Got my 1102 TTT voucher on Thursday afternoon and took the exam at pretty much my first opportunity--which happened to be this morning at 12:45 am. Passed with a 761 after just a quick run-through of all of the practice questions on the Official Instructor Guide. I didn't go too hard with review for this one because I figured that if I didn't pass, I'd be getting another free voucher in a few months anyway when I registered for the corresponding course at WGU, but now I don't even have to take that!

A+ GFL certified February 1998
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I was wondering how does one go about managing multiple CompTIA accounts? For example, I have my personal account that I received my certifications under. I have my work account for access to CIN, store benefits for purchasing resources for students, etc. I may receive benefits under my work account that should, in theory, transfer to my personal account. I have training credits from attending prior TTT webinars that should apply to my personal account for recertification but I attended the events under my work account. I reached out to someone in charge of TTT on 8/17 to see if I could get some answers but I haven't heard anything. I'm sure I'm not alone in this so I wanted to ask the community for your thoughts?

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Greetings!

Any updates on the release date for the new Linux+ book, exam, and CertMaster labs? We're trying to assess if we will use the new materials (book) in the fall semester. Also, we're evaluating the CertMaster labs for students taking our Intro and Advanced Linux courses (with 10-15 sections each semester). I was asked to provide an update as the book store wants to know what's happening this fall. @Stephen Schneiter

Thanks!

John McConnell

Congrats to Cory from MyComputerCareer for winning a CompTIA Partner Award at Partner Summit 2022!

We are going to begin training students for A+ cert and am wondering what types of hardware you use during the training. I'm talking the hands-on stuff not just simulations. Does anyone have a list of "nice to haves" they use for training? PC's, Laptops, switches, etc...

Are there any specific OS requirements also such as Windows or Linux servers to play with that anyone uses. I'd like to set up a nice lab that students can actually perform the required work.

Thanks for any input or suggestions you have.

j

Does anyone know if Certification Magazine has shut down? Their last article is dated June 24th and my emails to [email protected] have gone unanswered.

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I've been wanting to put together a cybersecurity or capture the flag challenge, or even better find something already created, to allow students to put into practice what they have learned. However, I'm not sure where to begin. The system would have to be virtual to allow the use of certain tools and I would like it to be a multi-user challenge.
Is this something that you have tried? Were you successful? Is there something that has already been created, as I don't want to "recreate the wheel" or spend a lot of money?

Thank you for your input.

MP

Greetings to all;

I want to ask, did anyone get Voucher for A+ Core 1 and Core 2 TTT series now.

Because Stephen mentioned in Linux+ XK0-005 Session 5 the voucher A+ sent to some.

Thank you all

The Combination of Rick and Stephen in the CIN Sneak Peek Project+ PK0-005 was Just awesome. May we give them 50 likes.

In keeping with @Trevor Chandler 's idea, I think it will be fun to start tossing out questions. Maybe it's something we all can do to keep sharp.

1. Your CEO is concerned about security leaks in the organization. So, she shares three versions of info about a product release, one to the head of marketing, one to the head of finance, and one to the head of business development. Each department head is given specific instructions to not disclose the information to anyone else. Two weeks later, she is told that information about that the story released to the finance director ended up on LinkedIn. She now knows the leak is with her finance lead.

What kind of technique did she employ?

2. You are concerned about rainbow tables, employed against your passwords. So, you require salting to be employed, however, you wish to keep the salt values secret. What is this called?

3. Diffie-Hellman (and Elliptic Curve) was created in the 70's to overcome what cryptographic problem? From what ancient mathematic crypto concept is this derived?

No multiple guesses. You gotta figure 'em out. And of course, Googlers only get 10% credit.

/r

Dear CIN,.
Please please,
Do we have here a Coupon/Discount for the Official CompTIA Security+ Instructor Guide and all goodies included in it?
Any even 5% coupon discount would be awesome to have and will be very appreciated.

thanking you all

Kind regards,

I am looking for some ideas for scenarios that I can give my students for Lesson 4 "Managing an OS" to test their understanding about it. Any suggestions?

Hi All / Stephen,

Did any UK guys get a PenTest+ v2 voucher?

I had an email saying PT0-002 voucher, but my email contents was actually the instructor guide resources key, so no exam voucher.

Only spotted it today when I thought I'd better get it booked

Piers

Anyone here ever do this?

I'm talking, of course, about Harvester HCI - an open-source packaged, production ready Hyperconverged Infrastructure, designed to leverage simple bare-metal boxes and create clusters. Runs on SUSE Linux.

So, I took a few HP EliteDesk Micros, (Sixth Gen Core i5, 16GB, 340GB SDD) and constructed one. Super simple to get going. The plan is to take about 18 of these and build a functioning HCI that we can then leverage to do actual 'cloud-y' things (VM's, demonstrate scaled computing, etc). We'll see how it goes but I wanted to share this and see how many of you all have used this.

/r

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Hi Everyone,

If anyone is contacted by Force7 or Joe Cruz (Colorado Springs, CO) for a training opportunity, please message me so I can share my experience.

I had a very negative one.

Thanks....

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Hello All,

Texas Cyber Summit 2022 will be held next month in Austin, TX. If you or any of your students are interested in volunteering, please reach out to me. Volunteers need to work a couple shifts, then they get the rest of the Con for free which makes it a great opportunity for students. I am running the Texas Cyber Rangers (think Defcon Goons) and helping to drum up more volunteers. The Summit runs from September 22-24. I have posted info on this both on LinkedIn and Twitter. I can also be reach at lee (at) texascyber.org if you have interest or questions. Thanks!

Lee

Good day everyone!

I'm anxiously looking for a solid, good book to prepare my students for XK0-005.

The previous three years, I taught XK0-004 using my own curriculum and adding to it with Bresnahan and Blum's book from Sybex / Wiley.

We've pre-ordered the 005 version of the same book, but I also bought the ebook version. The print version isn't out yet and I need something to prep my classes with, right?

Well, reading through the B&H 005 book from Sybex, I'm really not impressed. The 004 version was halfway decent, but the 005 version seems like a lazy update.

* The book left in a few topics which were removed from 004 -> 005.
* The book does not go deep enough by far into topics like Docker, Podman, Kubernetes, Terraform et al. Ditto for PKI and so on.

I've already taken and passed the 005 exam and I know how thoroughly some of those topics were covered. The book does not do it justice at all. For example, the only two mentions of "podman" are literally from output of the "docker" command, aliased as "podman".

So. Bottom line: who can recommend me a better book for XK0-005? Preferably one that'll come out soon, so we can cancel this pre-order and switch in time.