Best Case Practice for Teaching Security+ SY0 601 and will new training material be used for SY0 701

[Bert313]

Good afternoon Cinners,

I'd appreciate some feedback pertaining to the teaching format of Security+. I'm training a course starting July 24th (Monday)

I'll be taaching 3.5 - 4hrs per day, 3 days per week. The goal is to complete 1 lesson per day. I do realize that each lesson has more than one topic, but I feel this may be doable.

The duration of the class will be 2 months. I can modify the training to whereas they do one or two topics in a lesson as homework, or I can go 4 days per week.

Do you think that 1 lesson in a 4 hour period is doable or should I use one of the other options I mentioned?

Lastly, will there be a new training version soon for the SY0 - 701?

With Appreciation,

-Robert Sewell

 

[Rick Butler]

Hey Robert:

That should be do-able, as long as you can be flexible with your teaching schedule and not necessarily locked in. You're proposing 72-84 contact hours, which I think is good for Security+, assuming that the students in the class come in with a Network+ requisite amount of knowledge/experience/certification.

As for 701, that's projected for November 2023, so I wouldn't expect to see the training material for the 701 appear until later in the year.

/r

 

[Bert313]

Hey Robert:

That should be do-able, as long as you can be flexible with your teaching schedule and not necessarily locked in. You're proposing 72-84 contact hours, which I think is good for Security+, assuming that the students in the class come in with a Network+ requisite amount of knowledge/experience/certification.

As for 701, that's projected for November 2023, so I wouldn't expect to see the training material for the 701 appear until later in the year.

/r

Thanks for the follow up. These students are newbies... should I cancel the training and have them take some entry level networking course or move forward with the Security+ training?

 

[Mark Anthony Germanos]

What tools are you using in addition to lectures and PowerPoint slides?

 

[Rick Butler]

Thanks for the follow up. These students are newbies... should I cancel the training and have them take some entry level networking course or move forward with the Security+ training?

If they are brand new and have never had prerequisite training in computers or networking, I would not even try teaching them Security+. I've tried. It was a disaster. Start with A+ or even ITF+ if they are that green and build them up the core from there.

 

[Dhana Womantech]

Good afternoon Cinners,

I'd appreciate some feedback pertaining to the teaching format of Security+. I'm training a course starting July 24th (Monday)

I'll be taaching 3.5 - 4hrs per day, 3 days per week. The goal is to complete 1 lesson per day. I do realize that each lesson has more than one topic, but I feel this may be doable.

The duration of the class will be 2 months. I can modify the training to whereas they do one or two topics in a lesson as homework, or I can go 4 days per week.

Do you think that 1 lesson in a 4 hour period is doable or should I use one of the other options I mentioned?

Lastly, will there be a new training version soon for the SY0 - 701?

With Appreciation,

-Robert Sewell

Robert,
I will teach Sec+ soon as well. Can you help me?

 

[Bofy Idiodi]

If they are brand new and have never had prerequisite training in computers or networking, I would not even try teaching them Security+. I've tried. It was a disaster. Start with A+ or even ITF+ if they are that green and build them up the core from there.

I agree, without network+ background, huge disaster.

 

[Rick Butler]

I agree, without network+ background, huge disaster.

I've always agreed that a solid understanding of Networking is crucial to success on the Security+. But I've also believed that not everyone who needs to take the Security+ needs to be somewhere in the neighborhood of a CCNA in order to be successful in security. It comes from a lack of granularity in certifications, which, CompTIA is trying to fix with the modular certs.

Of course, there's a tradeoff on that granularity because you can have a cert for every role under the rainbow, but if those certs aren't profitable to justify the development time for the curriculum (certs like Healthcare IT+, CTT+, and such), then they fall off the vine, yet leaving a hole for validating skills.

It's an ongoing and changing landscape.