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Recent content by Tangobro

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    Trifecta Finally Complete!

    Congrats!!! Welcome to the club!
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    AI Essentials by CompTIA

    AI essentials does not provide for certification. It can provide a CompCert, which is like a certificate of completion. "CompCert assessment: prove your mastery of key concepts and earn a downloadable Competency Certificate at the end of the course to showcase your achievement." The course...
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    AI Essentials by CompTIA

    Actually, AI Essentials does not provide for a certification. AI essentials can provide a CompCert, which is like a certificate of completion. The course details (thanks for the link!) explains: "CompCert assessment: prove your mastery of key concepts and earn a downloadable Competency...
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    Certification Recommendation

    I'll echo Rick Butler - and add; AWS Cloud Practitioner has a gamified learning platform https://aws.amazon.com/training/digital/aws-cloud-quest/ that HS students (and others) enjoy.
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    Tools and learning platform suggestions.

    Ascend is running a $9 sale ending today so I signed up to check out the A+ material. Their labs were Ucertify's labs so you might want to compare what you are getting from Ascend vs what you could get directly from Ucertify. I won't continue with Ascend at the $59 monthly price.
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    Credential Value index

    The Wall Street Journal recently posted an article, based on research from the Burning Glass Institute, questioning the value of certs. The WSJ title was "Skill Certificates Rarely Pay Off." Seems they did not clearly distinguish certificates from certifications. This tool shows some...
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    1201/1202 student material - Academic Partner Price increases?

    Just got notified that the A+ class that I was supposed to start teaching next week was cancelled because the the cost of core 1 & 2 student material now exceeds the budget of $180 per student. Does anyone have a copy of the Academic Partner price list? Maybe I can cobble together something on...
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    Excited about the CompTIA Essentials

    I've had many students in the workforce development space, especially the 16 24 y.o. target demographic, but including others in Gen Z who definitely would benefit from the Essentials courses. I've passed on the info about the courses to the Continuing Ed admin folks at the community colleges...
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    CompTIA CloudNetX Certificate has just been released to passed users.

    Congrats! X certs ---> X-Men :cool:
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    Penetration testing tools

    Also for exploitable VM's, I came across this https://websploit.org/index.html#content1-4
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    Excited about the CompTIA Essentials

    Yes, it was informative & well presented. Feel like it got the toes wet - now ready for a deep dive!
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    CompTIA a+ Network & CompTIA a+ Cyber

    Thanks Stephen, DM done.
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    CompTIA a+ Network & CompTIA a+ Cyber

    Hi, I've been logging on & posting as Tangobro for about 3-4 years, but since i did not do a change password in December I was locked out because I no longer have the email account that I used when I registered. Thus I'm a "new" user Tangobr0. Questions - are any of you using or contemplating...