Hi

We are a CompTIA Platinum Partner and are creating a new option for our students to train in CompTIA certifications.

We are planning to run blended, online training courses for various CompTIA certifications and are looking for instructors to help us roll out this new venture.

If you would be interested or know someone that is, please email me, [email protected].

We are already running blended classes on A+ and would like to add Network+, Security+, CySA and Pen Test+.

For more information please use the above email address.

All the best

Mark Wheatland
Head of Partnerships
Learning People

So, who among us is planning to attend the Community College Cyber Summit scheduled for November 5-7 in Dayton, Ohio?

This is an interesting find (link here). Does this mean that the "final version" of Windows won't be so final? Or is this the advent of a more defined SaaS delivery of Windows that we've been imagining?

This would probably be the most provocative evidence - a retirement date for Windows 10 Home and Pro.



Is there more to be learned from "Sun Valley"?

/r

Team, this past weekend, I sat and passed the new Server+ exam. I feel the certification update addresses most-to-all situations in today’s Systems/Network Administrator job role. The exam nicely addressed installation, licensing, Windows/Linux administration, CIA Triad, and TROUBLESHOOTING. There is an emphasis on the environments of cloud and virtualization, as it should. A few things to remember:

• If teaching, focus on the ‘Whys’ more than the “What.”
• Demonstrate RAID and emphasis on the “A” in the CIA Triad.
• Know Licensing.
• Networking, as one of the sims, focuses on this.
• Virtualization/Cloud (SSO).
• Disaster Recovery.
• Know your port #s.
• DNS troubleshooting over a deep dive.
• Clustering.
• Server redundancy (NIC teaming, power distribution, load balancing).
• Linux administration commands and command interpretation.
• Company policies (MTTR, RPO, etc.).
• Troubleshooting theory and methodology.
• The CompTIA Server+ certification is considered good for life and does not need to be renewed.

With this certification, teach to the testing objectives, demo as much as possible. You cannot do Death by PowerPoint with this cert or any!

https://www.comptia.org/certifications/server#overview

In my effort to create structured learning content in a Canvas Learning Management System for a class this fall where I'm utilizing CompTIA's Official Student Guide and Labs for the Security+ (SY0-601), I'm planning to direct students to Professor Messer's videos that relate to this certification. In conjunction with this effort, I've developed a table (currently a work in progress) that identifies the videos, the exam objective (EO), and I'm going to work on tying the videos to their lesson location in the Guide. Appendix A in the Guide identifies items with their associated exam objective and ties the items to the specific lesson where they are discussed. For example, the term "dumpster diving" is tied to EO 1.1 and Lesson 4, Topic A (4A) in the Guide. Looking at the table, a video titled "dumpster diving" is listed as being tied also to EO 1.1. I will tie this video to 4A in the Guide.

I'd appreciate your thoughts on this effort.

Steve

Hola!

@Liz Wannemacher and @Stephen Schneiter is there an official process for reporting sites with braindumps from exams like Security+? I have identified at least two that have full questions+answers that were on the exam I took a few weeks ago.

In case anybody's interested, I've completed a cross-reference of the PT0-001 and PT0-002 objectives.

The table shows which objectives were dropped, which were added, which were retained/moved. It's not 100% accurate, but good enough if you'd like to prepare for 002, with 001-books.

-> https://www.kilala.nl/index.php?id=2528

I mean, I know that we as trainers get a licensed document that does a better job at explaining the differences... but we can hardly share that, right? This doc was made the hard way, literally cross-matching both objective documents. Hence why I may have made a few mistakes.

Greetings CIN Community!

Introducing the new CompTIA Talent Insights page on LinkedIn. The CompTIA Talent Insights page is for employers, educators, and CompTIA Authorized Partners who want to join a conversation focused on developing people and delivering IT talent to the global workforce. Any posts specific to CIN we will be using the #TeachCompTIA and for any post specific to our CompTIA Authorized Partners we will be using the #CompTIAAuthorizedPartner.

Check out the first entry, as ohn McGlinchey as talks Tech Talent! LINK TO POST

Enjoy!

Best,
Liz

Hi All,

New here and first post. I have just been looking at the PBQ in Certmaster (20 of them) as something to offer to students to help better prepare them for the PBQ in the real exam. I have been shocked by the quality as it seems half the scenarios don't contain enough information to answer the questions posed. In addition the answers at times seem to be wrong. You cant change the login credentials for an Active Directory Security Group.

Has anyone else found the questions to be extremely poor? Can anyone suggest an alternative to Certmaster for examples of PBQ practice?

Many thanks

Jonathan
CISSP, MCSA, N+, S+

We are looking for a couple of instructors to participate in a panel session at the 2021 Online Partner Summit this July!! Do you have an innovative strategy like mentoring, study groups, or maybe a unique way to implement CertMaster Learn Practice? We would like to talk to you about how you successfully embed exam prep and certification into your program.

DM me if you are interested in participating. Come share the spotlight with other instructors and program managers during this informative session at Partner Summit!!

Hello, is here anyone from Czech Republic or czech speaking trainer?

Hello everyone!

I'm glad to have seen so many of you out there today and hope you have enjoyed the first session of the TTT series. I've opened up this thread so you all can post, ask questions, provide comment, razz me, whatever - just would love to see y'all chat it up out here! We have seven more sessions and I hope you'll be a part of 'em all!

And if you're new to CIN, welcome as well!

/r

My college is looking to update an ancient Academic Integrity policy. Does anyone have a recently-revised policy I can take a look at? They frowned when I said we needed to go back to using yardsticks across the back of the hands when someone's caught cheating.

Prior to "retiring" and moving to SoCal, I served in a full-time faculty role at Sierra College for 18 years teaching IT, cybersecurity and law related courses. During my tenure, I spent time strongly suggesting that the College's IT Department staff should be taking courses and obtaining certifications in order to keep their knowledge, skills, and abilities (KSAs in education speak) up to date. That never happened. Needless to say, I'm not at all surprised by the Sierra College - Ransomware news, hitting the College during finals week.

A comment quoted below from one of my former faculty colleagues on the faculty FaceBook site pretty much sums up my forecast:

"We were just talking about you yesterday saying, 'Steve said something like this would happen...'"

About 5 years ago, on behalf of the College, I prepared and submitted the paperwork associated with the College obtaining the DHS/NSA "Center of Academic Excellence in Cyber Defense" (CAE2Y) designation. We did not achieve the designation because of my honest assessment of the College's cybersecurity policies and procedures. Last year, through a reapplication process, it did receive the designation. This of course has me questioning the value of this DHS/NSA designation.

Steve

CSSIA has built a nice set of “interactives” on different cybersecurity topics. Since they receive grant funding for the development of learning products, we can all use them.

Access is provided below.


https://www.cssia.org/interactives/

Hi Everybody,
Please, could I get a tip from you?
While completing the "Form-A" for the Virtual Classroom TK0-203, I stumble upon the "Witnesses"and the "Participant" part to be filled in.
Could the Participants (or learners) also be the witnesses completing the form? Or shall the "Witnesses" be a 3rd party body that isn't participating in the classroom?

And for the Form-B part, the "printed email replies" from the learner authorizing the view to CompTIA, shall they be a screenshot or a pdf conversion of the mails?

Thank you very much for the help.


Luca

We are searching for someone to lead our new Network Engineering Technology program at the University of Arkansas - Fort Smith. Interested professionals may apply at this link:
https://jobs.uafs.edu/postings/1822

If you have questions about the positions, please contact Dr. Micki Voelkel, Associate Dean, College of Applied Science and Technology, University of Arkansas - Fort Smith at [email protected]

Part of what we do is designed to make students better taxpayers. To succeed in this effort we need to help many of our students to have a stronger resume. A way to do that is to promote actions that will (1) increase their involvement in IT/cybersecurity-related groups, and (2) help them to network on a professional level. I recommend students consider joining Infragard. A simple reason is it presents opportunities to participate in activities like the one shown below:

INTERFACE- EDUCATION NETWORKING SOLUTIONS - HAWAII/SOCAL VIRTUAL CONFERENCE (NEW)
DATE: May 20, 2021
TIME: 8:30 AM Hawaii Time/11:30 AM Pacific
COST: FREE, no cost for InfraGard members to attend INTERFACE on May 20, 2021. You can earn up to 7 CPE credits during day!
DETAILS: Seminar schedule here: https://f2fevents.com/event/hnl21/. The conference will have plenty of door prizes to give away, including Amazon Gift Cards and $500.

While it would have been nice to be able to attend in person, Virtual is a reasonable accommodation. All I have to do is dust off one of my Hawaiian Shirts.

I don't know exactly what happened, but PearsonVue have actually gone and **changed** my login-name for the CompTIA PearsonVue login. I never got an email about this, or anything.

Gave me a right fright just now, because I have the CASP+ beta in the morning. All of a sudden I couldn't login! They would simply not accept my username+password, even after changing the password.

Turns out that, yes, those &^%$# took my original username and stuck a "1" at the end. Without telling me. WAT? ?

All the security questions for the account also got reset. So I have no clue what happened here. Luckily I have retained my exam history and yes, tomorrow's beta is also still scheduled. Pfew.

We are looking for experienced instructor(s) to teach CompTIA CySA+ and Linux+ courses. The classes will be taught via Zoom and held for five consecutive Saturdays (8:30 AM to 4:30 PM CST) for each course. The instructor will be asked to offer one additional session (weekend or weekday) to help students prepare for the exam. For more information please email [email protected]

The DefCon Red Team Village, of which I'm a part, is holding a virtual con Mayhem 2021 on Saturday, 5/29/31 and it's free. The schedule was just released so here's a link to it. Hopefully some of you and/or your students will find it fun and educational.

Logging into the Certmetrics CompTIA site, and clicking on the "history" tab, lists the CompTIA exams. For the record books, I've taken and passed 36 exams. How about the rest of you (Lee, etc.)?

For the CySA+ Academic class I'm teaching this semester, I recorded a presentation I gave today that gives my recommendations on (1) time management, and (2) how to guess intelligently when you have no idea what the answer is. You may want to look at it and potentially share the ideas I present to your students. The class announcement I made is below and provides links to the presentation content.

Steve

Announcement:

Today's presentation that relates specifically to "how to approach the CompTIA CySA+ certification was recorded. You can access the recording by clicking HERE. For those unable to attend, it became necessary to move the Zoom room over to one where I could capture the session by recording it. While viewing the video you will be asked to pause the video for 10 minutes while you take Quiz A. You can download Quiz A and other documents by accessing the PDF version of the PowerPoint slides available by clicking HERE. Another helpful link where I'll update my own progress towards passing the new CySA+ certification is my Blog.

Which content delivery systems have your students had A+ certification success with?

Just started at an organization that has TestOut, CertMaster (not sure which one) & the Mike Meyers book. I'm thinking about trying to get them to supplement with MeasureUp, or Ucertify, or Cisco's IT Fundamentals, or either Cengage's MindTap for CompTIA A+ Guide to IT Technical Support, 10th Edition, or just the book as a standalone PDF. The students are economically disadvantaged, including homeless youths up to about age 24 who have recently received a high school or an equivalency diploma. The goal is for them to be A+ certified within 22 months, possibly receiving an intermediate cert like CompTia's ITF or a Microsoft MTA cert as prep for the A+ if it will help them attain the A+.

Do you use any of these resources, or have your students had success with something else?

I'm looking to deliver a 5 day instructor-led Sec+ course and am wondering if anyone has done this using the Certmaster Learn together with the Certmaster Labs, as opposed to the traditional 'death by PowerPoint' with supporting activities as relevant.

I'd like to understand whether anyone has delivered the course using 'only' the Certmaster materials, or whether people have successfully integrated the slide presentation content with the Certmaster learning/labs packages. If it's the latter, sight of an example/recommended training schedule would be very useful!