Hey there it is nice to meet everyone, I was recently accepted into CIN and I don't really know where to go from here. Does anyone have any tips or guidance to getting started? I do apologize if this is vague, But I do hope I can get some guidance.

how to redeem Comptia online lab as a comptia instructor ?

Is anyone having issues with the labs in CertMaster Perform for the new Cloud+. I have several tickets open already. I'm sure the Test Out folks are rolling their eyes and saying "Oh no, not him again" . However, I have already got 2 tickets escalated to the development team. At least I was able to use this is a real-world example of escalation when I was teaching troubleshooting to my class. It also seems like the servers a awfully busy during the morning hours. I took 7 minutes to load a lab that I was trying to teach about this morning.

Does anyone have any questions, comments, or similar experiences? Please reply to this thread.

Hello, fellow CINers,

TL;DR Sign up for my newsletter at https://fordsnotes.substack.com

A long time ago, I created a website and posted content that I developed while preparing and delivering classes. When I remembered, I would tell my students about that site. Sometimes, it helped, as the writings were long and had more detailed or better-thought-out answers to questions that came up in class.

In 2023, I started using Convertkit and attempting to publish newsletters. If my students asked to download any of my handouts or notes when they found them on my website, they were added to a mailing list and later received a newsletter. The newsletter featured an 'unsubscribe' statement and button at the bottom of the message, and if they didn't want any more emails, they would unsubscribe. I actually had almost 200 subscribers using that tool.

Last year, I started hearing from the ConvertKit team that the rate they charged me would increase because I had 200 or more subscribers. I was in a dilemma: should I return to my website or explore other options? I consulted many fellow instructors and marketing professionals for their opinions, and the responses were evenly split between Medium and Substack. Ultimately, I decided to sign up for both platforms.

Last year, I finally decided to write regularly and publish at least every other week. If you publish on Medium, you are not supposed to post that content anywhere else or violate their terms. I sometimes publish there, but I post all my writings at Substack. If you take a look and decide to subscribe, you'll receive an email at most once a week. Sometimes, you'll notice that what I publish there relates to a question or answer I contributed here on CIN. My About message on Substack reads like this:

I'm Brian Ford, a cybersecurity, networking, and cloud technical instructor and coach. My newsletter is designed to help readers decide which certification to pursue, achieve that certification, and maintain it through helpful tips.

Regards,

Brian

Is a date for TTT series on the horizon for AI Essentials?

Hello CINners,

Anyone have any suggestions on the mechanics that can be used to
identify compromised SSH keys?

Thanks CINners

Hi All,

My first time on the thread so I hope there's someone out there that can help.

I run a B Corp Social Enterprise called TechForGood, the business is a B2B IT reseller, and we supply IT to socially or environmentally conscious businesses across UK, form SME up to corporates.

As a social enterprise we prioritise social & environmental impact alongside commercial success, and we do this by donating 50% of our profits to good causes. These include offsetting the carbon from every product we sell before point of sale, and we fund a range of social and environmental charities in line with the UN's 17 SDG's.

In 2025 we will be launching the TechForGood Foundation, that will serve as an education platform and will become our new impact model. The Foundation will provide IT skills, training and qualifications to individuals from disadvantaged, disabled and marginalised backgrounds, funded by the commercial activity of techforgood.co.uk along with grant funding we are currently pitching for.

CompTIA will serve as the platform for our education programme, and we will start with entry level courses like the A+ Tech+.

That's where you lovely people come in. I'm keen to speak to any UK based instructors that might be interested in helping us deliver these programmes, both online and in time in person as well.

Any and all comments welcome, and if you'd like to speak to me please email [email protected]

When is the CIN TTT Series: PenTest+ PT0-003 starting?

Hello...

Any one help me to find latest Laptop repair modules free

Hi fellow CIN'ers. I thought I'd comment on the fact that I just saw a student pass the A+ Core 1 exam and the logo on his printout has been completely redesigned and I have been asked by students about it. I haven't yet been able to find anything official from CompTIA on this.
The new logo is redesigned and states "CompTIA A+ Certification Plus Series" We are talking about the official score report, not the logo available after finishing Core 1 & 2.

Otherwise everything is the same, but if anyone has information on this I would love to know more if it is just the score report changing or all of the logos.

Hello, is it possible to extend the expiry date for the labsim course given during TTT?

Troubleshooting is discussed in multiple CompTIA certifications. It's covered in Tech+, A+, Network+, and Cloud+ to name a few.

What I'd like to know is why are the steps in the troubleshooting methodology different in each of the certifications. I'm teaching Cloud+ this week and there are ten steps. Tech+ and A+ have six steps. Network+ has seven steps. Shouldn't CompTIA be endorsing a consistent troubleshooting methodology across all their certifications? Isn't it more confusing for the learners to unlearn what they've learned when pursuing a new certification?

40K+? Are you kidding me!!!!!

Is this subject (CVEs) covered in any of the CompTIA courses?

Hello CINners,

Is the PAM (Pluggable Authentication Module) facility covered in the
Linux+ course?


Thanks CINners

Hello, pls i need CompTIA security+ slides to deliver to learners

I am independent Trainer.

How can I get a license to practice the network+ v9 labs?

My training partners let us use a shared account but sometimes it is in use.

As a Comptia trainer, would be helpful to have a lab license

Initially got a license durign the v9 TTT, but it expired.

David Papkin

What’s one thing you always include on your slides to keep learners engaged?

Back in early December, I managed to take down O365 email and Teams messaging for my entire organization for 3 days. Anyone who sent an email or Teams message with an attachment would immediately have it quarantined without recourse as "High confidence phish." I didn't realize it was me until a bunch of people from the Microsoft 365 security team sent me LinkedIn requests - and one of them let me know.

So what happened?

I was going down the machine learning rabbit hole while building out a new program for Data Analysis and AI that maps to all of the content on the DataX certification. As a software developer, that meant I was playing with Tensorflow, Keras, Scikit-learn, and so on - and since I have one of those Snapdragon Copilot+ PCs, I was playing with ONNX + QNN for the purposes of automating the creation of my 1-on-1 progress report I have to do each month for my boss. It had full access to my O365/Teams/SharePoint/OneDrive, but all models (mostly quantized) were run locally to ensure that no sensitive data was copied elsewhere.

A bit of automation to comb through my previous month's emails, Teams messages, and key files to fill in a form with my vernacular seemed harmless to me, but freaked out Microsoft Sentinel on the O365 side as it wasn't used to that type of searching/activity.

But it ended well - our IT team got a good chaos engineering exercise, I got my 1-on-1 progress report finished, and others in my organization are now more paranoid about AI in general.

I'm looking forward to generating my 1-on-1 report again next week

Happy New Year! I hope you’re all doing well. I’ve been hard at work preparing for the Cloud+ certification, and I’m thrilled to share that I successfully passed the exam this morning! It was quite a challenge—definitely not an easy test. My experience really came into play, and I just managed to scrape by with a passing score.

Now, I’m feeling elated and relieved, and most importantly, I’ve gained valuable experience. I have many exciting projects lined up across various Cloud Service Providers.

I am eagerly waiting for the CloudNetX results. Hoping for a pass too. Thank you CIN for the voucher.

Attack on the Committee on Foreign Investment in the U.S. was part of the recent Treasury Department breach.

They love agitating the U.S.!!!!

The links I had for the Partner Summit this summer no longer work. Any information on whether this event will still happen? I'm going to be very sad if it disappears!

Online Live training, daytime and evening. Onsite training on occasion per group requests. Must hold current exam version of the certifications. Please contact me if interested and kindly provide your resume. Thank you!


Liz Pernaselci
Director of Operations
Applied Technology Academy
[email protected]

See https://gtia.org/

Thoughts?

Non-volatile memory express (NVMe) -
A communications protocol developed specifically for all-flash storage,

NVMe enables faster performance and greater density compared to legacy protocols.
It’s geared for enterprise workloads that require top performance.


Is NVME covered in any CompTIA course? Is so, which one(s)?


Thanks CINners!

CompTIA bolsters penetration testing certification​

Very nice article published on networkworld.com. Very timely as well!!!