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  1. jasoneckert

    Printed courseware is gone, but what about the PDFs?

    100% agree with all of this! First and foremost should be teaching a skill or topic area, with an end goal of having students feel confident in their practical abilities in that skill or topic area. It's a bad thing if people skip that and just focus on getting certified (remember the days of...
  2. jasoneckert

    Printed courseware is gone, but what about the PDFs?

    Obviously, I had to like this post! :) I wholeheartedly agree with everything mentioned in this thread - we choose courseware/textbooks at our college based on content and value. As a result, most of the courses that have an associated CompTIA certification attached to them use materials from...
  3. jasoneckert

    Printed courseware is gone, but what about the PDFs?

    As a Cengage author for Linux+, I know that most colleges purchase the printed copies of my titles instead of just using the eBooks (which are part of the Cengage MindTap platform). The printed version is costlier than the MindTap version, but better because readers benefit from the...
  4. jasoneckert

    I broke O365 while preparing curriculum for a program that aligns to DataX :-)

    No, it wasn't deliberate - merely a side effect of my 1-on-1 report automation :)
  5. jasoneckert

    I broke O365 while preparing curriculum for a program that aligns to DataX :-)

    Back in early December, I managed to take down O365 email and Teams messaging for my entire organization for 3 days. Anyone who sent an email or Teams message with an attachment would immediately have it quarantined without recourse as "High confidence phish." I didn't realize it was me until a...
  6. jasoneckert

    Predictive Analytics-Prime Time?

    Predictive analytics is definitely a mature field (many many decades) and commonly used across most industries today :)
  7. jasoneckert

    Partner Summit 2025??

    It would be a shame if Partner Summit doesn't happen this year. Mainly because this is the first year in a long time where I'll actually be able to take the time to attend it since I'm doing mostly program administration and not teaching a class.
  8. jasoneckert

    An A+ History question

    Exam numbers? Those have long been removed from my memory, as are any older certificates as I threw out older versions of exams as I wrote newer ones (but I kept all the lapel pins ;-). I would have written the first exams in late spring 1994 because the university I was working at wanted me to...
  9. jasoneckert

    An A+ History question

    That was the name of the hardware exam (service technician), not the OS exams :) Of course, there was nothing wrong with just writing that exam if you just serviced hardware at the time.
  10. jasoneckert

    CIN TTT Series - PenTest+ PT0-003

    Registered+
  11. jasoneckert

    What’s Your Biggest Win as an Instructor?

    My biggest win was when I asked my class to turn their books to the table on page 404 and several of them said "We can't find that page." It basically meant that my tech humor was rubbing off on them, and that they're ready for the real world as a result...
  12. jasoneckert

    An A+ History question

    Not everything you read on the Internet is accurate, especially when it pertains to very old stuff from the 90s 🤷‍♂️ In fact, for those of us who remember the writing the first CompTIA A+ exams, for the first 3 years you actually had a choice of which OS exam to write in addition to the...
  13. jasoneckert

    An A+ History question

    A+ was always 2 exams, including the very first version in 1993: One tested hardware concepts, and one tested operating system installation. As hardware became easier to support (no manual setting of IRQs on sound cards, yay!), A+ eventually evolved into a general "intro to IT" certification...
  14. jasoneckert

    What prevents our students from completing their goals

    Insufficient caffeination should also be added to that list.
  15. jasoneckert

    Passed Cloud+

    Congrats+
  16. jasoneckert

    UnixGuy's Best and Worst Cyber Security Certificates

    If you ask 5 different people what their favourite Cybersecurity certifications are, you'll get 5 different answers. It is what it is...
  17. jasoneckert

    Happy Holidays!! What Are Your Traditions?

    Merry C:\hristmas (the PC term for Christmas)! I enjoy spending Christmas day mingling with family and friends I don't see often. And, of course, the movie that must be played every year is National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation!
  18. jasoneckert

    CIN Sneak Peek - CloudNetX CNX-001

    There is no official pronunciation of SIEM. That being said, English favors dictation where the second vowel is emphasized (i.e., SEEM, not SIM), which is likely why most pronounce it that way. But more importantly, this pronunciation avoids confusion with SIM (Security Information Management)...
  19. jasoneckert

    Comptia Exams

    I usually teach programming languages using heavy metal. It works well...
  20. jasoneckert

    AI Jesus Will Hear Your Confession

    My view mirrors that of Gilfoyle from HBO's Silicon Valley: https://triosdevelopers.com/~jason.eckert/stuff/chatbot.mp4
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