What's the update on SY0-601 retiring?
It started November 2020. Scuttlebutt on some forums says it'll sunset July 2023. CompTIA exam page doesn't have a sunset date or replacement announcement.

Hello Everyone!! The CIN TTT series is back in 2023! Join the CompTIA Instructor Network and special guest Bjoern Voitel as he Leads the CompTIA CySA+ TTT series. Bjoern will cover the exam objectives and provide hands on examples as you strengthen your cybersecurity analytics skills. We will discuss how to cover the content with students and suggest various labs to let students gain hands-on experience as they prepare for certification.

CompTIA Cybersecurity Analyst (CySA+) is a certification for cyber professionals tasked with incident detection, prevention and response through continuous security monitoring.

What: 12-session webinar series
When: Begins Tuesday, May 30, 2022
Where: ON24
Who: Bjoern Voitel, Next Akademie
Register Now

Hello CIN members,

Anyone have a Sec+ 601 training deck they can share?

Thanks,
Eric Brockman

A contact of mine on LinkedIn is attempting to add to her instructor pool so she can offer more courses to her training center. Her name is Kristin Pelletier and she owns Access Computer Training. If you are interested, contact her via LinkedIn.

Access Computer Training - https://www.linkedin.com/school/access-computer-training/

Kristin Pelletier - https://www.linkedin.com/in/kristinpelletiercareercoach/

I have no afiliation with the school and have only spoken with her briefly. Please direct all questions to her directly.

Has anyone taken the Udemy TK0-201 CompTIA Certified Technical Trainer CTT+ Essentials Practice tests course:

https://www.udemy.com/course/tk0-20...cal-trainer-ctt-essentials/learn/quiz/4921819 ?

How useful was the practice course for the CTT+ Essentials exam?

Very interesting insight being shared by Henry Mann. The focus is on students in middle school.
A good place for students in middle school ro
Start IT.?

We are looking for a Certified Instructor to teach A+ to Denver area high school students this summer. Class would be held Tuesday and Thursday mornings from June 13th to July 27th, from 9-Noon. A stipend will be paid. Please contact Walt Sulmeisters, Director of the Common Good Network, Regis University. My cell # is 303-913-1494. My email is [email protected]

Good afternoon CINers.

Our school is looking to train the Security+ and Network+ plus course to individuals looking to retool their skills.

Looking at related information, I was calculating 80 hours a piece for each course. The participants would be your average computer user. Any thoughts?

-Robert

Hello CINERS,

I would like to train Security+, CySA+, but I'd like to know what is the likelhood of employablity with either one or the other certifications, but not both.

I just want to set the proper expectation of employment opprotunities with my students. Are you finding that individuals certified in either of the aformentioned certifications have been employed and what are the typical job roles. I've looked at the job roles on the CompTIA webpage, but are those realistic?

Thank you.

-Robert

Greetings,

I hope this post finds you and your families very well! I am searching for the current A+ CertMaster Learn Course Pacing Plans for 2, 4, 6, and 8 weeks of study in MS Excel format. Can you help?

(I attached an image of the 1000 series pacing plans I used before exam retirement.)

Regards,

Dr. Duane

I was reading in an online forum about preparing for exams. I saw several students who mentioned they spent months preparing for certification exams. One student mentioned that he spent three months preparing for the ITF+ exam. Another student mentioned that he averaged six months per exam. Still another stated that he studied for nine months for his first exam.

Granted, I've got 25+ years of experience and have passed four versions of A+, four versions of Net+, four versions of Sec+, and two versions of CySA+ and currently have all but two of the current CompTIA certs. My first CompTIA cert was IT Project+ (now Project+). My supervisor offered me a bonus if I could pass the exam in a week and teach it the following week. I studied like crazy and passed the exam on the first try and did teach it the following week. I don't think I've ever studied for any exam longer than a few weeks. I think I spent three weeks total studying for both the PenTest+ and CASP+ combined. I spent a week studying for my CISM. I passed seven Microsoft exams to get my MCSE in two and a half months. No brain dumps, boot camps, or practice exams either. Just "nose to the grindstone" studying. I don't usually do any labs while preparing because I tend to do lab work all the time anyway.

I know that everyone has different levels of experience and every exam is different. There are a lot of variables that go into preparing for exams.

How long, on average, do you spend preparing for new certifications? How long do you spend preparing for recertifying in certs you've already earned before?

I manage the Infrastructure Pathways product development at CompTIA, which from a ProdDev standpoint starts with Network+. My team is holding roundtable discussions with instructors, administrators, course coordinators and other decision makers -- anyone who has boots-on-the-ground experience with our existing product offer, training materials for Network+ (N10-008).

I would love to get your feedback on your teaching experiences, what works and what doesn’t, and any wish-list items you might have regarding the Network+ (N10-008) training products. This information will help us tremendously when we begin development of the next version of the product (N10-009).

I'll be hosting discussions during the week of 24-April and the week of 1-May. Please feel free to sign up for a time: https://app.smartsheet.com/b/form/11f05acabd5e47a682f20ea1b76beab5 or email me directly at [email protected]. A member of the Learning team will provide attendees with instructions for joining the call.

Thanks for your interest!

I manage the Infrastructure Pathways product development at CompTIA, which from a ProdDev standpoint starts with Network+. My team is holding roundtable discussions with instructors, administrators, course coordinators and other decision makers -- anyone who has boots-on-the-ground experience with our existing product offer, training materials for Network+ (N10-008).

I would love to get your feedback on your teaching experiences, what works and what doesn’t, and any wish-list items you might have regarding the Network+ (N10-008) training products. This information will help us tremendously when we begin development of the next version of the product (N10-009).

I'll be hosting discussions during the week of 24-April and the week of 1-May. Please feel free to sign up for a time: https://app.smartsheet.com/b/form/11f05acabd5e47a682f20ea1b76beab5 or email me directly at [email protected]. A member of the Learning team will provide attendees with instructions for joining the call.

Thanks for your interest!

So, one of the things that I've had to do in the change of company directive has been to start learning and integrating our network to FortiNet technology.

So if you go out to https://training.fortinet.com and sign up for a free account, you can latch onto some free training, if you want to expand your horizons when studying for things in the CompTIA security track. Granted it's ALL vendor-driven, however, the way that they present the training is, at least as far as NSE 1-3 is concerned (haven't got that far yet), is conceptual, before rolling out what FortiProduct they have to answer the requirement. I don't know (probably not) if you can use the training in a classroom situation, but I think it's well built. Most of it is SCORM - some of it is more wow-video driven.

And if you're using FortiNet products or plan to in the future, it's probably a foregone conclusion to avail one-self of that training.

I think one can get the images from the FortiNet support site in order to stand up virtual appliances for training purposes - I haven't tried this yet, but it may be a good little exercise for those GNS3 environments we all built last year with @Lee McWhorter.

What free training do you know is out there that might be beneficial for the CIN? Post below!

Back to my FortiTraining. And no, I've not given up on any CompTIA certs I'm working on. But sometimes, things just jump onto one's plate...

/r

I manage the Infrastructure Pathways product development at CompTIA, which from a ProdDev standpoint starts with Network+. I'm looking for feedback on our existing product offer, training materials for Network+ (N10-008). This information will help us tremendously when we begin development of the next version of the product (N10-009).

My team is holding roundtable discussions with instructors, administrators, course coordinators and other decision makers -- anyone who has boots-on-the-ground experience with the N10-008 course materials. I would love to get your feedback on your teaching experiences, what works and what doesn’t, and any wishlist items you might have regarding the Network+ (N10-008) training products.

I'm hosting discussions during the week of 24-April and the week of 1-May. Please feel free to sign up for a time: https://app.smartsheet.com/b/form/11f05acabd5e47a682f20ea1b76beab5 or email me directly at [email protected]. A member of the Learning team will provide attendees with instructions for joining the call.

Thanks for your interest!

Hi all,

Maybe I am just blind (wouldn't be the first time), but I was looking at the CompTIA lesson plan for Data+ and it mentions PBQs in addition to presentation, videos and labs. See screenshot. But going through the official instructor materials, I cannot find the PBQs, they don't seem to be hidden in the powerpoint slides, practice or assessment questions nor anywhere else.

Can anybody point me to those PBQs, please?

Many thanks

Andreas

After an onsite bootcamp, out of curiosity, I decided to prepare for and take the Comptia Pentest+.
Mixed reactions from the result, although a very narrow win. Not sure whether to celebrate or go back and dig deeper.
Here we go guys, Comptia Pentest+

Hi Everyone,

Following a recent enquiry received from a Europe-based client to provide remote/onsite training delivery services, I have a potential requirement to deliver a number of different CompTIA courses:

• A+
• Network+
• Security+
• CySA+
• Cloud+
• Pentest+
• CASP+
• Linux+

In addition to CompTIA courses, an additional potential requirement exists for delivery of the following courses from other vendors:

• ISACA CISM/CRISC/CISA
• (ISC)2 CISSP/CCSP
• EC-Council CEH/ECIH/CTIA/CSA/CCISO
• PECB ISO 27001 Introduction/Foundation/Lead Implementer/Lead Auditor, ISO 27005 Introduction/Foundation/Risk Manager/Lead Risk Manager , ISO 27035 Introduction/Foundation/Lead Incident Manager, ISO 22301 Introduction/Foundation/Lead Implementer/Lead Auditor

If you are based in the UK/Europe and are certified/accredited to deliver any of these courses, please get in touch by email ([email protected]), providing your CV along with details of any recent courses delivered. If you have any specific language skills please include details of these.

Andy

These are printouts of the certificates as I keep the original framed at home. Should I present them chronologically that I earned them, or by color, or by CompTIA’s pathway? I was thinking to just tape these to my office wall and not need a frame. Should I buy more frames for these copies?
Please share your own Certificate Wall.

I have a question, I have a student who bought CertMaster Learn and Labs, I don't use them in class but the student wanted to have them to study on their own for a test.

However, the student failed and wants to reset CertMaster Learn and Labs to start studying over again. Is there any way to reset back to zero on everything?

Thank you.

Josh

I am looking forward to our next CIN Event. I hope that everyone interested has signed up for our next adventure in 2023. Thank you Stephen for the early notification!!

I'm new to the CompTIA Instructor Network and I'm interested in resources for classroom instruction for the ITF+ curriculum.

The Instructor Guide for ITF+ refers to resources on Skillpipe; however, nothing was included in my instructor guide on how to access this content. Also, are there other free resources available for use to teachers?

Any and all suggestions would be greatly appreciated at this point!

Matt

Looking at various forums most noticeably Reddit, students discuss and target the goal of achieving 'the trifecta'; or A+, Network+, and Security+. Since these are three foundation certifications; what's the benefit? Is it a bragging rites thing? I noticed that some university programs - WGU was one - seem to require or encourage their students to go this route.

How long are the ITF+ vouchers good for? Ideally, I'd be able to save a couple until May 2024 in case any of this school year's students are not ready in time.