I have received my access to the Official CompTIA Data+ Instructor Guide (DA0-001).

Thank you Stephen Schneiter

Can someone point me in the right direction as to where to find the 1101 & 1102 CompTIA A+ objectives? I was not able to attend the launch session this week.

Kindly I am going to write PEN+ exam, I would like to know if it contains simulation questions

Hello Everyone,

The Presidential Cybersecurity Education Award is presented by the U.S. Secretary of Education to teachers in the field of cybersecurity to honor their contributions to the education of our nation’s students. The award is bestowed annually to two teachers — one at the elementary level and one at the secondary level — who “demonstrate superior achievement in instilling skills, knowledge, and passion with respect to cybersecurity and cybersecurity-related subjects.” These recipients embody the dedication and expertise of educators who are critical to increasing the cybersecurity awareness of all students, inspiring the nation’s future cybersecurity workforce, and contributing to a more secure society. The award acknowledges both the exemplary achievements demonstrated by the teachers and that of the teacher’s students.

Deadline: The nomination period closes on July 31, 2022 at 11:59:59 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time.

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If you are planning on submitting, please let us know how we can support you!

Where could I get the Cert Master+ for A+ 1101 and 1102?

Considering integrating the CompTIA CertMaster Learn+Labs for Security+ into my community college Cyber curriculum. Confused about what I products I need to purchase for instructor-led learning. For 10 students, what licenses and/or access keys would I need to purchase?

Question of the Week #14 – Answer

Question of the Week:
What are YOU doing today or what CAN you do to put your students in the best position to pass the certification exam?

Thank you again for the great discussion this week! If you missed Monday's post, I recommend that you read it. We read about the 70-20-10 rule used with our CertMaster Labs, the importance of Labs and Practice Questions, and of course, about being an encourager for those students that want to become certified!

Last week we provided a glance into our 3 platforms CertMaster Learn, CertMaster Labs, and CertMaster Practice. We will dive into more detail below sharing 1-2 ways that you can zero in on specific data!



CertMaster Learn is home to the Boost Dashboard which shares a lot of great reporting from the student’s journey through their course. We will take a closer look at the Strengths & Weaknesses and Confidence Levels.

The Strengths & Weaknesses Tab gauges a student’s skill level in each major lesson category based on their practice question results and the difficulty of questions they have already answered. These are then ranked for each student by lesson, and on a range from “Beginner” to “Expert.”


These Strengths and Weaknesses can be seen by both Instructors and Supervisors on a Student Level reporting (specific student) or a Group Level reporting (average of all students in the group).



The Confidence Levels also play a great part in self-evaluation for the students and instructors. These confidence levels are required to move forward through each page of a lesson in CertMaster Learn.

As a student learns a page of content, they must rank themselves on “how confident” they are on that page. These rankings are from Low, Medium, and High Confidence. Confidence is a self-reported method of categorizing what a student thinks they need work on.


Student’s confidence levels are automatically sorted and can be viewed from the “Lessons” Tab > “Confidence Level”. Students can utilize this page to then focus just on the topics where they feel they need more study (i.e., Low Confidence topics). Clicking on a topic will take the student directly to the lesson the topic was taught.




Instructors/Supervisors do have visibility of a Students Confidence Breakdowns in the Boost Dashboard categorized by lesson.


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CertMaster Labs is another great tool for students, especially when separating the learning into two different Lab styles. Going through our Virtual labs, like our newest CertMaster A+ labs, it starts students off with walking through the Assisted Labs and then let’s students do it all on their own with Applied Labs.

Assisted Labs are great for students to help them understand the different scenarios and guides them through actions learned through their course. For some students they have never completed the Lab actions prior to taking your course. For these students, they can be guided through the lab step-by-step until they feel comfortable in the environment and comfortable doing similar scenarios by themselves.


Applied Labs is where students will “apply” what they have learned from their course lessons and previous assisted labs. Working through a scenario, students will have less guidance and must complete the correct actions and answer the Final Lab Questions.

The more comfortable Students are within the Applied Labs the better position to passing the certification exam!



The CertMaster Learn + Labs Integrated Product allows the Students to Launch these labs directly from the CertMaster Learn platform giving students access directly from their Learning Dashboard, and Instructors the reporting for the Labs in the Boost Dashboard!
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CertMaster Practice breaks down course objectives into modules for the Learners. Learners can retake these modules as much as they would like by utilizing the “Smart Refresh” and “Full Refresh.” Smart Refresh allows students to take the module but ONLY show the questions they previously got incorrect.

Full Refresh allows students to take the entire module over again.




Practice Tests are another great CertMaster Practice tool students can use to put themselves in a better position. Practice tests can be taken as many times by the students, and Instructors have the reporting to show each attempted grade. The reporting in CertMaster Practice is very in depth for its Tests and modules.

Looking at the reporting of a CertMaster Practice test below the Learner can review all questions asked accompanied by the solutions for each. The Learner can also see which topics they need to focus their studies on and launch the module directly from the results page.


Because of the larger bank of questions, Learners will be getting different questions each time they take the test. This is why it is recommended that Learners receive a 90% on 3 practice tests in a row to be in a better position.


These are all great CertMaster solution tools to get your students into the best position, but they aren’t ALL of. If you have any tips or ways YOU are doing things today, feel free to share below.

Have a great weekend!

What are possible assessment questions i can ask for the Network +?

To give to my students, id like 30 to 40 questions? a possble site i can visit?

Hi all;

Any one recieved PenTest+ Voucher or still not sent to instructors.

Are there any resources that outline the additions in 1101 over 1001?

Hi Everyone

I am a high school teacher in NJ and I am looking for others to collaborate with on generating more interest in my IT class. We use Cisco networking academy and a few of the resources from Comptia but I am looking for additional ways to keep my students motivated as many do not take the A+ exam. Any other HS teachers have any suggestions?

Our next Sneak Peek session will occur on Thursday April 14. Be sure to join us to take a look at the new changes to Linux+ and receive a copy of the new exam objectives.

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NEW DATE: Tuesday, April 26, 10:00 AM CST
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Hey Everyone I hope you all had a fantastic start to your week!

Because of the great best practices, responses, and even MORE ways our team can share, we will be continuing our question from last week!

Question:
What are YOU doing today or what CAN you do to put your students in the best position to pass the certification exam?

In this thread, we want YOU to share your best practices or tools you may use to get your students to the next level. We will share some more ways on how you CAN get your students into the best position.

We are looking forward to communicating with you all throughout the week! See you Friday!

Can it really be, that the last Moduls of 1101 are on the same day as the bginning of 1102 only one hour apart ?

I just registered for the 1102 Series and added the Dates via .ics to Outlook:
17th :
0600 CDT: Session 1 for 220-1102
0700 CDT: Session 11 for 220-1101
19th:
0600 CDT: Session 2 for 220-1102
0700 CDT: Session 12 for 220-1101

I though the Sessions running each for 2hours.

Is that by purpose?

I watch them later, since this is in the middle of the Night for me, so i doesn`t apply for me, only if you following live...

Michael

Happy to share that I passed the PenTest+ exam today. Thanks for running the TTT, helped with my studying and is good prep and direction for studying and future teaching opportunities. Having this resource in my arsenal was pretty valuable. For those still prepping and studying for the exam get your hands on as many study materials as you can from different sources, that will make the difference. Good luck to the rest of you!

Hi Everyone,

I am new to this forum and was wondering if any of my peer Instructors are located in Charlotte, North Carolina that I can connect with? I am delivering my first Server+ class next week and could use some situational experience for the benefit of my Learners.

My email address is [email protected].

Anyone?

Thanks so much.

Jim Goughenour

CompTIA is expanding our online training program and we are looking for CompTIA certified instructors in A+, Network +, Security +, Data +, CySA+, CAPP+ and PenTest +. Prior teaching experience in an online environment is required as is a passion for helping adult learners succeed in IT. Our classes run M-F for 2 weeks from either 10 am - 1 pm CT or 5 pm - 8 pm CT. Please send your resume if interested to [email protected].

So I was sitting in my chair reviewing the A+ TTT for Session Five, and of course, treated to my own wondrous and melodious voice and picture of me. BTW - Alan is doing a great job, so if you're not watching them, you need to start!

My oldest (23) comes in, looks at my screen, "So, whatcha watching - is that a recording?"

Without missing a beat, I say, "No kiddo, it's live."

I love my daughter. She's a genius programmer, making that crazy money in software development. Degree in CS and Math. Knows about five languages and can speak Ansible natively. And apparently, she had a tough day dredging through tickets.

But...

She figured it out after a minute. Had a chuckle - went on to play Mass Effect.

A day in the life in the Butler household. Good times.

/r

Happy Monday Everyone! I know you are all excited for our Question of the Week, and this week we are going to try something… a little different

We know you have heard a lot from us, but we want to hear from YOU! Anything goes, whether it's a future topic you'd like us to cover or a question you have that is relevant to you.

To make things a bit more exciting, we will be doing a Random Giveaway drawing for all those who have participated sometime this week. EVERY submission will be included into our giveaway (i.e., if you have 2 submissions, you get 2 entries).

We will draw multiple names, and winners will have their choice of some FREE content (voucher, e-learning, eBooks, etc.) or some very cool “CIN Swag” (thanks Rick Butler)!

So who wants to start us off with a QUESTION? Leave your questions/topics in the comments below. Good Luck!!

What are your indicators that a relationship between you and a potential student is not going to work? I recently had a student who demanded I change my family schedule (start class later) to be able to let her sleep in to mid morning. This student also refused to communicate by phone and was surprised and offended when I suggested that they would need to rely on personal study and practice test taking in order to take in the information (change it from passive understanding to active application of knowledge) well enough to pass the certification exam (which this student had already failed once).

I am NOT trying to start a string of complaints about students. I AM asking if you have a metric or threshold that you use to measure your potential effectiveness with students.

In this case, after a few more conversations, I declined to further work with the student.

Hey everyone, thanks so much for your input on last week's post! we will be working to try and tailor some weekly questions around the hot topics that were presented, as well as working to try and provide some more immediate answers or direction around the feedback. As we mentioned, everyone would receive an entry into the giveaway with their participation, so without further ado, here are the winners below. Please reach out to us to claim your prize of either some nice CIN Swag or a piece of CompTIA Content of your choosing. Don't forget we will be doing this again so please keep an eye out for ALL of our posts!

Jeremiah Minner
jgoodrich
Michael Schmitz
Tess Sluijter
Abby Krane

Hi everyone and happy Friday!

We have heard great feedback on what YOU are doing today that puts students in the best position to pass the certification exam. This has included students rooting down the fundamentals, understanding the objectives of their courses, utilizing technology, and providing students as many options to help them learn. These are all great answers, and a big thank you to those who participated!

Question:
What are YOU doing today or what CAN you do to put your students in the best position to pass the certification exam?


For our answer this week, we will provide out CertMaster Suite of Solutions: CertMaster Learn, CertMaster Labs, and CertMaster Practice.




One way you CAN put your students in the best position to pass the certification exam is by using CompTIA CertMaster Suite. The following will highlight on how each solution aids in the student's certification journey:
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CertMaster Learn is a comprehensive eLearning experience that helps learners gain the knowledge and practical skills necessary to be successful on CompTIA certifications exams, and in their IT careers.

Instructional lessons are combined with video, practice questions, and performance-based questions. ALL content is aligned with the CompTIA exam objectives.

CertMaster Learn gives students the ability to see their Strengths and Weaknesses in their course. This shows the students which lessons to focus on. Similarly, all practice questions and activities are broken down to show what you know and what you don't.
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CertMaster Labs enables the hands-on practice and skills development using real equipment and software accessed through a remote, browser-based lab environment.

All Labs are aligned with official CompTIA learning products such as CertMaster Learn and the CompTIA exam objectives.

The Assisted Labs and Applied Labs are great for letting Students use the skills they learned in a simulated environment. The Assisted labs will take students through a lab activity with more support, and step-by-step instructions. The Applied Labs allows students to use what they learned to complete tasks within the VM environment.
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CertMaster Practice is an online knowledge assessment and training companion tool to help you prepare for your CompTIA certification exam

This solution quickly assesses what you already know and what you still need to learn and provides personalized remediation and feedback.

Students can use CertMaster Practice's modules to take practice questions in different areas. After a student completes the set of questions the first time through, they can then take a "Smart Refresh" or a "Full Refresh."

The Smart Refresh will allow students to take the questions again but only the questions they got wrong. The Full Refresh will allow students to take the entire module over again.


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Stephen

I went to schedule my Security+ exam and cannot find my voucher. I am not sure I ever received it as I cannot find an email containing it. I have all other vouchers in their emails. Is there any way I can get the voucher?

Thank you @Stephen Schneiter

I received now access Code to the Official CompTIA A+ Core 1 Instructor Guide (220-1101).For participation in the A+ Core 1 220-1101 TTT through the CompTIA Instructor Network

Hi Team,

I am trying to register for A+ TTT.

However, I am getting the following error message

Error: Pleae register using a valid business email.

Note: I have registered for other TTTs using my same email address.

The email address is i use is an Outlook.com email address.

Your help is much appreciated.

Regards
U