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Recent content by Rick Butler

  1. Rick Butler

    Pentest Exam

    Good luck on your exam. Great prep means great results. /r
  2. Rick Butler

    CIN Sneak Peek - CompTIA Linux+ v8

    Heh..I just loaded Linux Mint on my old Surface 5 in hopes of breathing some new life into it. So I would say, just because cloud and AI are out there, needing to know Linux is probably all the more important. /r
  3. Rick Butler

    How can we get Institutional course access to CertMaster Security+??

    Corey: Do you know who your CompTIA BDM is? That would be the person you'll want to talk about getting Security+. Are you a CompTIA partner? Not sure what you mean by "institutional access", though. Since TestOut has been rolled up into CertMaster Perform, you would be needing to get that. /r
  4. Rick Butler

    CIN Essentials TTT Series: CompTIA AI Essentials

    See, not to pick on @Nick Pierce too bad, but I'm only slightly miffed that the course is not being taught by AI. /r
  5. Rick Butler

    Partner Summit 2025

    (thought I answered this one a day or so ago...hah...) With ChannelCon being about 3-4 times the size of Partner Summit in the past, I gathered it wouldn't happen this year. It's unfortunate, considering that the only conference I'm doing this year is Anthology - and I know no one here...
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    Partner Summit 2025??

    There isn't one. Nothing planned or announced. GTIA ChannelCon is at the end of this month as before, but after the CompTIA splitoff, I got the sense that Partner Summit was off for this year. Maybe next year...
  7. Rick Butler

    CompTIA CAS-005 Retake Possible After Missing Appointment Due To Internet?

    Never had a problem with any of our testing centers here in COS. And I have a great working relationship with one, so I'd rather seem them get the meager few bucks for proctoring. For me, it's always about mindset - when I get into a test center, I'm more in my A-game. Probably the same kind...
  8. Rick Butler

    CompTIA CAS-005 Retake Possible After Missing Appointment Due To Internet?

    Quite likely the proctor revoked the exam session if he/she attempted contact/re-establish connection. Usually minor outages can be tolerated, even if you end up with a different proctor. But if the session was revoked, then there's nothing for it. While I'm sure this isn't the case for you...
  9. Rick Butler

    In-Class Exercises

    Lab Manuals that are tied to the traditional publishers like Cengage, Pearson, and others. Using those lab manuals as a guide and building them up, to me have created some great examples. Even if the lab manuals are deprecated in terms of test version, they're still very valid. Get a stack of...
  10. Rick Butler

    Effectiveness of Simulated Software Labs vs. Live Lab Environment.

    I think *everyone* here would prefer that live lab environment. The things that I've noticed is that in live environments, you have real problems that sometimes need to be fixed - which is a learning experience in of itself. Plus it's live fire - with all the functions intact. Sim...
  11. Rick Butler

    Certification Languages

    Demand usually drives these things. If there is an uptick in the number of people calling for it, then I can see CompTIA investing the time and money into creating materials in different languages. I would say any language would effectively become its own project in terms of development - so...
  12. Rick Butler

    Birthday Celebrant

    @Grahame Boreland Many Happy Returns, mate.
  13. Rick Butler

    Security+ Unusual Request from Contractor

    Totally concur here. Provide the client with options, sure. At the very furthest, they provide the cash upfront if they wanted me to buy it on their behalf. But that's it. Contractor should never accept the client's risk on anything.
  14. Rick Butler

    College Contact

    Hmm...I might need to check to see if ours is still around... /r
  15. Rick Butler

    APAC Delivery Partner Meet-up

    Wish I could go...but... I can't get a lift. ;) (have a great event, though!) /r
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