CompTIA has signed on as a sponsor of the US Cyber Games, a national program created to inspire the next generation of cybersecurity professionals through training and competitions, culminating in the inaugural International Cybersecurity Challenge in Athens, Greece, this December. Pretty cool. Check out the press release: https://www.comptia.org/newsroom/pr...mes-welcomes-comptia-as-a-contributor-sponsor

Be sure to register for Partner Summit and check out the agenda! We've been meeting with session panelists as we plan the event and WOW! The topics are so insightful you won't be disappointed with the expertise of the presenters and panelists. Visit Partner Summit to register for the event. Once you're registered keep an eye out for an email from CompTIA My Partner Summit where you'll be able to build your profile and select your sessions.

Just for fun, complete the poll and let us know if your a newbie or how many past Partner Summit events you've attended!

We look forward to seeing you at the event!

The attached is an effort where I'm mapping rooms on the TryHackMe site to specific exam objectives for the SY0-601 exam for inclusion in my efforts to build supplemental content for the fall Security+ courses I'll be teaching. You may find this useful.

All,
How do I go about changing my profile / user login email address. Been looking through the account settings, can't find anywhere to do it. I'm not affiliated with the college and the college email address that I originally signed up with and would like to change it to my new college.
Thanks in advance!

Yes! That is correct! It is time to say, good-by double O seven, and hello N10-008! Join us on Wednesday July 14th as we welcome CIN member @samberumen who will walk us through changes in the new exam.

What: two-hour webinar investigating updated certification
When: Wednesday July 14, 2021 2:00 p.m. CST
Where: ON24
Who: Sam Berumen Florez, MASANET
Registration: https://bit.ly/CINSP-NetPlus008

I've packaged a course that is largely public domain (grant-funded), and with the exception of access to the Practice Labs virtual lab environment, free access to the content is available. All you need is to download the course export file (link below) and set up a free Canvas LMS teacher account, and you are good to go. This certification is foundational in nature and IMHO excellent for middle school and high school students as a starting point in this certification race track. The good news is students completing this course and certification will be well prepared for your A+, Network+, Security+, ...+ courses.

Sorry, I'm new here so I'm not sure if this has been addressed. I've seen a tentative release for the N10-008 Network+ Exam for August 2021. However, does anyone know if there will also be the usual 6 to 8 month overlap in Exam options before the N10-007 is completely retired and one can no longer sit for that one? Any input would be very helpful. Thank you.

I got the CTT+! ????

I'm a bit confused now:
I thought the cert would be called (as per comptia.org)
CompTIA Certified Technical Trainer (CTT+)

As I took the 203(virtual class trainer).
my cert title is instead:
CompTIA CTT+ Virtual Classroom Trainer
If so, It is a bit deceiving - as comptia.org says that Candidates passing the exams (201 + 202) or (201+203), would acquire the CompTIA Certified Technical Trainer (CTT+)

I can see an issue here - ambiguity -
Or can the 202 be taken as well after passing the 203?

Thank you.

Hello, I am looking for your best ways to teach simple programming to young adults with no programming background, preferably something that relates to ITF+ level of knowledge. If you would prefer to talk, please call me at The Dan Marino Foundation (954) 368-6000. Thanks in advance. -Benny

CIN TTT - Cloud+ CV0-003 Series Registration

Summary

The next release for CompTIA Cloud+ is here!
Join the CompTIA Instructor Network and special guest Glenn Hobbs as he takes us through the objectives of the new exam. 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 Cloud+ validates the skills you need to maintain and optimize cloud infrastructure services.

• Cloud+ covers the increased diversity of knowledge, skills and abilities required of system administrators to validate what is necessary to perform effectively in data center jobs.
• CompTIA Cloud+ views cloud-based infrastructure services as an increasingly important piece of an organization’s IT systems.
• It is the only vendor-neutral, performance-based certification covering more than a specific vendor or a single function — such as security or networking — to help you better realize the return on investment of cloud infrastructure services.

Cloud CV0-003 TTT

Hi Y'all,

I am new to CIN. I have been asked to create and teach a Security+ course.
We will have access to the CompTIA resources. It will also be a class held in the evenings.

I have several questions:
How many class meeting times do you have for your course?
How long is your class meeting time?
Do you do a hybrid online/offline course?
And approximately how long did it take you to develop your course?

Thanks!

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