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Lee McWhorter built a series of mock-ups for pentesting and cyber. They were articulated in his PenTest+ and CASP+ training a few years ago. Should be available in the resources area, but you may have to do some sleuthing.

Bah...award winner... it's just a piece of glass, mate. I get to do this and hang with good people...even you, Mr. Chandler. Just don't skip out on the CIN'er dinner next year, okay? I'm not sure where Zero Touch content would even go in the CompTIA stack, beyond the causal mention. But as...

The conversation wasn't really about what is "best" or "smartest" Ansible is just another tool in the toolbox. I know organizations that love doing all their management through Ansible. I happen to love it. Building Windows in Zero/Lite Touch is pretty tricky, even with Windows tools like the...

I remember reading about a dust up between the estate of Ansel Adams and Adobe - where Adobe got into a bit trouble creating a library based on Mr. Adams' work. Interestingly, the estate indicated they didn't have an issue with the "style" but rather, the "attribution".

Oh yeah...me too. Locked and loaded. LOL

Ansible can be used for system deployment as well. I was reading an article yesterday, even, on a user who was having some minor issues with PXE when trying to kick off an Ansible playbook to automate CentOS on Baremetal, which implies Light Touch or even Zero Touch (providing a solution for...

Right... but just to be crystal, the LEARN content is for anything before the release of PERFORM (right now, the new Net+ and Tech+). As courses are updated on the three year cycle, they'll be brought into CM Perform, which means the PDF material isn't available...?

Good stuff, Stephen P.. Good to see you out there again.

I don't think I've ever really seen ZTP covered in any depth in CompTIA, beyond a cursory mention. Light Touch and Zero Touch deployment strategy would be more OS specific. Ansible would also be a player in that space, but again, I've only seen it mentioned in CySA and CASP and not to any...

Congrats on your latest win!

That's the vibe I got. Are you saying there are PDFs out there for the new Net+ and Tech+? Because my understanding is that content is all now in Perform...?

I remember submitting something for this some time ago...not sure for what... but I remember filling out a form...never heard back...something tied to the CIN though?

I brought these points up at Summit and that's definitely the case. I also enjoy having the PDF books, but I think that will just mean you'll have to find your textbook solution with one of the traditional publishers. It makes sense that CompTIA is going to put their content delivery through...

I'm not sure how CompTIA is going to address this - perhaps deferring that out to the publishers like Cengage and Pearson, which will probably continue to write text books for those environments that still want them.

Thanks Stephen. I spoke to @Becky Mann about this during Summit. She really wanted to know why schools were insisting on having textbooks still. I can see that CompTIA would probably rather focus the effort into Certmaster Perform, but I think a lot of folks will wonder about this. On the...

Congrats on the nuptials! So, Tech+ isn't going to have a PDF like before. All of the materials for certifications that CompTIA is updating are getting pushed into CertMaster Perform - so one of the biggest changes - no books like we had before - at least that's my understanding. Offline...

Perhaps Support would be your best bet, although I don't see much to happen with that, since the next revision of Security+ will deliver through CertMaster Perform, so the guides themselves will go away, I'm thinking.

If I read your question correctly, you're wondering about the Expansions that CompTIA is doing. Essentially, I see these as addenda to the regular certs that are being offered, so probably not like a 'deeper on a particular topic' or a self-standing cert. I like to think of it as say adding a...

As of Wednesday last, they hadn't been released yet. That's the last update from Stephen.

I think that's how Teresa Sears pitched it at Summit - that it would be more of an add-on enhancement. It's an interesting turn for CompTIA.