Hi,

I have a question. I am teaching Security+ SY0-601. I am using Prof. Mark Ciampa's textbook. I have his videos presented during the CIN SY0-501 TTT series several years ago. Unfortunately the On24 links for that series do not work any more. I found some of his videos still relevant to the current exam and go along with his textbook. I think they will be beneficial to my students, because we are using his book. Can I use his videos in my class? Of course I will give a full credit to his work and CIN. If it is ok to use these videos, I will edit them so that they are short and to the point (I will get rid of chat question for example).

Thanks,
Sukanya

Greetings fellow instructors,
Does anyone have any tips on how to help my students prepare for the PBQ'S. I would like to think I teach a heavily hands on oriented class. However, my students seem to be struggling in that area. In particular the 1002. Thanks for the guidance

Hello everyone! Can anyone point to where we can purchase The Official CompTIA A+ Core 1 and Core 2 Instructor Guide (Exams 220-1101 and 220-1102)?

Happy Friday everyone! Great answers/responses shared by our CIN members this week, thank you to those who participated!

Our question this week is focused on the benefits of the "Lessons" Tab in CertMaster Learn. Have a great weekend!?

Question:
In CertMaster Learn, how can the Student/Learner use the "Lessons" tab to their benefit?

Answer:

The Lesson’s Tab has loads of benefits including the ability to view and rank confidence levels and allowing Students to make customizations within their course.


View and Rank Confidence levels:

The Table of Contents provides users to see an overview of how they ranked their confidence levels so far in the course. The Table of Contents can be filtered by specific Confidence Levels, lessons, or student customization.




The Lesson’s Tab has another section named “Confidence Levels” that shows the students their Lessons categorized specifically by their confidence levels.

There are 3 Confidence levels: High, Medium, and Low Confidence. Categories are chosen by the Student as they progress through the course. Students must rank their confidence levels before continuing through the lesson.

These Confidence Levels allow the Student to see where they ranked their confidence levels throughout their learning and to see areas that may require more studying.





Student Customization:

Students can also customize their course lessons by use of Notes, Bookmarks, and Highlights. Notes are personalized by the student and will be specific to the current lesson page the note was made. Bookmarks will save a specific lesson page for later use. Highlights are important sections of text that can be found at a later time.

All these customizations can be found using the Notes, Bookmarks, and Highlights categories at the top of the page.




These are just some of the benefits that CertMaster Learn has to offer. What other benefits have you found using the platform?

I watch through the session 2 of the CompTIA A+ trainer but the certificate of attendance was unable to download

Do we need to register separately for the rest of the sessions for A+? As there was only the option for a the session yesterday

Team, we've had an excellent start with the A+ TTT! A+ has always been one of my favorite certifications, as it covers a wide range of IT topics. This certification allows a future IT professional to decide what IT career to pursue. As a CISSP, I still enjoy the contents of A+ and what this cert has to offer.

Sit back and enjoy all that A+ has to offer.! See you in class...

Hi! Was the recording from last night's A+ 1100 Series Session, Session One posted? If so, where can I locate it? Thanks!

Hi buddy / mates

In recent times cybersecurity companies are recruiting people with domain and skills in writing rules for SIEMs, IDS, IPS and others. The writing of these rules, on the one hand, helps to avoid false positives, good reading of log messages to better understand events on the network and, on the other hand, to comply with corporate internal policies.
To further emphasize, I believe it is a new skill for Cyber Security Analyst (BlueTeam).

I believe that compTIA could focus on this in their certifications such as: A+, Net+, Sec+, CySA+, Data+

Are there any sources of information, training or guides that would help an analyst to have the skill to write rules on security devices?

Registration is now open for the CompTIA A+ Partner Launch webinar happening April 21st. During this webinar, we will review the exam objectives, discover the skills needed to support hybrid environments, and learn about our various learning solutions, including the new Core 1 workbench labs. Save your seat: https://s.comptia.org/3xlUX4l

Got my Voucher Now !! Thank you, @Stephen Schneiter , for all you do for the community!

Are there any A+ vouchers?

Happy Monday everyone! It's that time of week again... QUESTION OF THE WEEK! We look forward to your answers and/or feedback and thanks as always for humoring us ?

Question:
In CertMaster Learn, how can the Student/Learner use the "Lessons" tab to their benefit?

HINT: There are multiple right answers and quite a bit you can do here so don't be shy, thanks again and have a great week!

Has CompTIA thought about offering merchandise through the CompTIA store? Shirts, hats, jackets, etc.

Too bad the HTI+ (Home Technology Integrator) certification is no longer available. See:

I can hardly get my head around seeing people posting and reacting to posts, for the sake of getting Forum Achievements. ?
I guess, if that's what makes them happy and they're not hurting anyone, then we let them be. (?)

After having it on my radar for several years, I finally passed the CASP+ this weekend. Along with it, I also got the CSAE and CSIE stackable certifications.

I thought the exam was challenging but fair. I had one PBQ and one hand-on VM exercise. Due to the fact that the exam was pass/fail, I have no idea if I passed it easily or if I barely made it. But I guess what they say is true. The guy who graduates last in medical school is still called Doctor.

I still need the Linux+, Data+, and CTT+ to complete the entire set.

Hi mates
I would like to suggest that CompTIA, as a neutral certificate provider, introduce more in-depth and detailed information on how to interpret event logs from different sources and manage them, for example: network devices, OS, Apps, among others.
Events Logs have their lifecycle. CompTIA, I suggest you put more details on the subject in the study guides and consequently in the exams.
This would provide a more solid foundation for network analysts and engineers.

There is a lot of misinterpretation of log messages by Analysts and Network Engineers and this misinterpretation can result in delay in accurate collection of information or poor incident response

I had never seen a book or guide that went into depth about interpreting and detailing message logs.
example: How does a log message present itself when it is a brute force in windows authentication, in FTP, SSH protocols? or even on a Cisco Router, Switch?
another example: privilege escalation on linux account. how look like? mensage log



Guys what your view point about?

It's that time of week everyone, here's your answer for this week's question, and have a great weekend!

Question:
In CertMaster Learn, how does the Learning Plan benefit the Student User's course progress?

Answer:
The Learning Plan presents the course material in a sequential format throughout the course, and lessons are not only presented in order but also the corresponding activities such as Labs (if applicable), Practice Questions, etc.

Students can also enter the course on any given day and choose the “Study Task” button which will take them right back to the point they left on the previous login.

Also, Students will be able to use the “Learning Plan Progress” bar as well as the “Today’s Knowledge Goal” section to help understand how many concepts or topics they will need to study for that give day. The Learning Plan Progress and Today’s Knowledge Goal sections will automatically update each day, and will adjust accordingly if no progress has been made over a given period of time.

At any time, the students can also check their “Strengths and Weaknesses” from the left side margin while in the learning tool. This will capture any areas where confidence levels were marked (this is a required activity during ALL lessons, see visual on attachment), and will also showcase areas where more attention may be needed. Lastly, this will also give the students a barometer of when they are “Exam-ready” by showcasing their overall progress from Beginner to Expert level of knowledge. This will continue to build as ALL activities within the course are completed. Best practice is that we recommend they reach at least the notch between proficient and advanced before taking their certification exam.

Please see the attachment here as well for visual representation of each concept.

Any additional questions or comments please feel free to share!

One of our partners asked if I could post this to the community as they are having a hard time finding a certified Security+ instructor.

College of Southern Maryland is in need of a certified Security+ instructor who can deliver a live, online class in the evenings (Mondays and Wednesdays from 6:00 PM – 9:30 PM) using Zoom and the CompTIA Official Content for Security+. Class is scheduled to start next Monday (4/11/21). They can also consider rescheduling the start date to a week later to allow for more prep time.

Anyone interested please contact:
Paula Coluzzi
Program Manager
Business and Information Technology
Continuing Education and Workforce Development
College of Southern Maryland
301-934-7557
[email protected]
https://www.csmd.edu/programs-courses/non-credit/workforce-training/index.html

Background- I have been selected to become one of ten instructors for the US Army JROTC Cyber Instructor program. The 4 year curriculum will cover concepts such as A+ for year 1, Network+ for year 2, etc. I was curious if there was relevant training and certification that will "certify" me to teach COMPTIA certification subjects. Thanks in advance.


PS. I have written exam questions for ISC2 and COMPTIA and hold a few certifications- CISSP,CISA,CASP+, GSEC, Security+, CYSA+.

Sir when are starting comptia a + training I am waiting

Do we have an ETA for Partner Summit registration? I'm so excited to hopefully be back in person this year!! Looks like ChannelCon registration is open already, but I couldn't find a link for the Partner Summit. Did I miss the info in a TTT session?

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

Hello everybody,

I have had some students sat the CASP 004 exam yesterday and today, and reported that a simulation and a few questions "disappeared" from the review page and impossible to retrieve before submitting the exam. This is not on-Vue at home, but on-premise exams carried out in our exam centre in Ireland.
Should we report this to Pearsonvue, or are these the new experimental simulations that Mr Lane described at the launch?
The behaviour of the review page raised some complaints from students who failed the exam and blamed this new feature for it.

Please help

This is only happening in CASP 004 apparently.
We had other students take the CASP 003 exam in the same exam centre and there was no problem whatsoever.