New Cloud+ Exam Success

[Cyber Russ]

Team, I had spent time in the virtual testing center last night and passed/renewed my CompTIA Cloud+ certification! An excellent exam that covers a great deal of the cloud architectural environment.

For those that are pursuing a cloud career path, I do recommend this certification.

Keep at it!

 

[NATUNA]

Congratulation!

 

[XValentine]

Congrat Russ!

 

[maykin]

Congratulations!

 

[Brian Ford]

Team, I had spent time in the virtual testing center last night and passed/renewed my CompTIA Cloud+ certification! An excellent exam that covers a great deal of the cloud architectural environment.

For those that are pursuing a cloud career path, I do recommend this certification.

Keep at it!

Russ,
I'm guessing that you studied from the recent Cloud+ TTT materials; the 003 Cloud+ Student and Instructor Guides? Did you use any other resources?
Brian

 

[NATUNA]

Russ,
I'm guessing that you studied from the recent Cloud+ TTT materials; the 003 Cloud+ Student and Instructor Guides? Did you use any other resources?
Brian

@Brian Ford with my experience you should see more with Azure Architect documents (AZ-104, AZ-500, AZ-xxx) or AWS Architect documents (SAA,...) because I have certified Azure Certificates before studying Cloud+ so I think that the knowledge in Azure Certificates is perfect for Cloud+.

 

[MOHAMMAD SOAEB]

Congrat Russ!

 

[Rick Butler]

Good job, Russ. I'm still working through mine, although I am also running side-saddle with the AZ-900 exam. I finished the course on MSFT's site - and I found it pretty much pretty weak and more of an overglorified sales pitch to adopt Azure into one's environment. But studying for AZ-900 overall allows me to have more applicative knowledge to cloud - although I wonder how much I am going to need to know Amazon's equivalent stuff for it.

 

[Hod Berman]

Good job, Russ. I'm still working through mine, although I am also running side-saddle with the AZ-900 exam. I finished the course on MSFT's site - and I found it pretty much pretty weak and more of an overglorified sales pitch to adopt Azure into one's environment. But studying for AZ-900 overall allows me to have more applicative knowledge to cloud - although I wonder how much I am going to need to know Amazon's equivalent stuff for it.

Check out John Savill on youtube plus others for their nice courses on AZ-900 and MS Fundamentals exams after MS-Learn. I watched Savill's course for the SC-900. He keeps things short and concise and brings it all together coherently.

 

[Rick Butler]

Check out John Savill on youtube plus others for their nice courses on AZ-900 and MS Fundamentals exams after MS-Learn. I watched Savill's course for the SC-900. He keeps things short and concise and brings it all together coherently.

Dudebro's gotta be the buffest IT instructor out there. I need to get to the gym way more than I do now.

I like the secondary approach. Primary study is to go domain by domain, hitting each objective as you go. Savill's approach goes in from the side. This may be a method to consider for CompTIA exams, and perhaps, a different approach to the Train-the Trainer series.

Meditate on this, I will.... (cue meditative music)

 

[Patrick Asamago]

Team, I had spent time in the virtual testing center last night and passed/renewed my CompTIA Cloud+ certification! An excellent exam that covers a great deal of the cloud architectural environment.

For those that are pursuing a cloud career path, I do recommend this certification.

Keep at it!

Congratulation!!!

 

[Brian Ford]

Fellow CINers,

I too passed the Cloud+ (CV0-003) exam today. This was an anomaly as I NEVER test on Mondays.

Overall I was very impressed with the course material and the exam. I previously studied for and passed Cloud Essentials+ and AWS Cloud Practitioner. In my opinion Cloud+ is an excellent exam and certification for those that are System Administrators or Information Security Specialists or Managers. The material and the exam tests practical networking knowledge moving from the data center to the cloud.

If there was any area that I would work to improve it's the troubleshooting. The questions on the exam were all good and I thought very fair. But they were hard. In my own delivery prep I'm going to develop many more scenario based examples and exercises.

I was thinking about pursuing AWS Solution Architect Associate next and then AWS Security Specialist. But in the next month I want to sit for the Data+ exam so those AWS exams will have to wait.

Happy Monday All,

Brian

 

[Cyber Russ]

Congrats!! Well done!

 

[PETER HANWITH HORDEN]

Team, I had spent time in the virtual testing center last night and passed/renewed my CompTIA Cloud+ certification! An excellent exam that covers a great deal of the cloud architectural environment.

For those that are pursuing a cloud career path, I do recommend this certification.

Keep at it!

Question is the CompTIA up to par studied it and failed now trying certmaster not enough in the book to pass? Comments

 

[Cyber Russ]

Question is the CompTIA up to par studied it and failed now trying certmaster not enough in the book to pass? Comments

Peter, Certmaster is a great resource, definitely invest in that. Like any exam, know your testing objectives and know the "whys" behind them.

 

[Brian Ford]

I'll just add that the hardest part of the Cloud+ for me was what I believe is the hardest topic to teach and to learn. That is when an exam objective says 'given a scenario' or 'troubleshoot...'. There was lots of that in Cloud+. I have plenty of network diagrams and scenarios that I can walk students through. The hard part is between teaching the high level 'diagnostic process' and helping the student be able to troubleshoot and arrive at the right answer. Teaching this you give an example and explain your diagnostic technique and logic. Maybe 20% of the students get it on the first attempt. Then you do another 2-3 examples. Maybe you bump student understanding to 50-60%. Then you give assignments and have students work these in small groups. Maybe bumping understanding up to 70-80%. There are just that 20% that don't get it or for whom it takes much, much more work. Those same students will probably never apply for any position that involves 'troubleshooting'.

 

[Mike Huisman]

I took this exam and passed it in May this year. I thought the exam was fairly well balanced. I agree though that the GAS questions can be challenging!