Just to clarify:
When we say "attend the TTT", we are saying that you're participating in the seminar during the active working window, beginning from the start of the first session and continuing until two weeks after the end of the last session ("the window").
@Stephen Schneiter will usually announce these deadlines during the TTT's as well as on the forums. But generally, it's two weeks after the last session.
During the window, attendees have access to the following:
Textbook: In the window, you'll end up getting 30 day online access to the CompTIA texts, the student guide and instructor guide. You have access to them for 30 days after you activate your access, so if you wish to defer for a while, you can do that. Not sure if/when that access code dies, if left unused. Additionally you can download PDF copies of both the student guide and instructor guide for your exclusive perpetual use. These resources are usually available about a week after the window opens.
CompTIA CertMaster Learn/Labs: This is for the TTT instructor only, and only has a 30 day period so the instructor can use these resources to teach the webinar. Sorry folks, only the instructor gets these.
Voucher: CompTIA provides a complimentary voucher for those who complete all the sessions
during the window. This means either watching them via the live session, on-demand, or a combo of both. You must complete all sessions before the window closes to get the voucher. Once you have the voucher, you generally have six months or a year (not sure, this has changed a couple times, so check when you get the voucher), to activate the voucher. Once activated, you have one year to take your test with PearsonVUE.
CEU's: For every two hours you participate, either on-demand or live, you earn one Continuing Education Unit (CEU). These are appropriate for organizations that require CEU's for professional development as well as part of the CompTIA Continuing Education program. At the conclusion of each session, you will see an icon that looks like an award ribbon. This will spawn up a PDF of your certificate. You really should collect these, because if there is a dispute about whether or not you completed a session, these serve as evidential proof.
Once the window closes, all the sessions are perpetually available for viewing. However, there is no further access to any other benefit, other than the CEU's (which are still pretty valuable if you are doing CE for your organization or maintaining your CompTIA cert with CEUs).
Hopefully this is verbose enough to clear up any questions regarding how TTT works. I share these things with my fellow instructors and I would hope you do the same - there really is a lot of good value add here, with CompTIA helping keep instructor credentials up to date. All it takes is for the instructors to do the hard work to stay certified.
HTH,
Rick
