Thanks. Does it leave much time for questions, or just blaze through all this material? I'm used to 10 days per CompTIA course. They're recommending 4 days.
I'm pretty sure your CompTIA business rep would have to get you those materials. I can't remember exactly how, but I think someone here can fill in the gap of who that representative is.
I would recommend around 2-3 weeks if you're covering the full Net+ curriculum, including hands-on labs and practice exams.
Plenty of time for questions and demonstrations. I usually save the labs as homework after class, and then we review the labs as review each morning.
I'm pretty sure they just want the content taught so they can reskill and get the credit towards continuing education. They want four days, and I think that's pretty short. I would be like motor mouth and just ask people to keep the questions strictly to the material to keep it moving. It's the only way this would work.
Just don't forget to breathe between slides—your motor-mouth powers will be legendary by the end of it!
My answer is a little different than that of others. I trained folks who worked for telecommunications companies and had jobs on equipment that had been phased out. I ran classes that met 2 hours per day over three weeks (30 hours total). My time of day preference is 10 AM-noon (avoids late arrivals) or 3 to 5 PM (avoids after-lunch nappers). Since this is an internal course, the syllabus would require that participants read whatever materials they're using before each meeting. I always ask students questions but administer assessments (quizzes) at the end of each week. The quiz handout is three questions at the start of class on the first Friday, then five questions at the beginning of class the following Thursday, and then ten questions at the start of that last Friday. After each quiz, I hand out the answers to each question on every assessment with explanations for each answer. The students grade those first two quizzes themselves. I collect the last quizzes and grade them to produce a course effectiveness assessment that I turn to leadership.
The one thing I would also add to this, as well as any other CompTIA (or certification course for that matter) is to remove, from jumpstreet, the expectation that a candidate is going to be "cert-ready" at the conclusion of the training. The human mind requires multiple exposures to the same information in order to properly process and assimilate the knowledge.
I have done the content in 3 Days, but the often till 6 or 7 in the evening. Do they wanna do the labs? When they plan to take the exam?
My sincere hope is that the new owners of CompTIA make the prerequisites mandatory. No more skipping over A+ and Network+ so candidates can start with Security+ or CySA+. Make them go through the progression. If someone doesn't have the prerequisite knowledge or experience, they can't sign up for the class.
I'm not sure we can restrain someone from signing up for a class, but getting certs, certainly, from a certification purity perspective.
That's my concern. That they're more concerned about profit than providing a real value to the learners. It's a huge disservice to allow them to try to skip steps in the learning process because they want to cut corners.
I don`t think that will happen. Because there is to much stuff yet in A+, that not really everybody needs.
@Rick Butler & @Greg Childers , i agree that having a firm prerequisite for certifications would be hard to enforce. But I would look to what others in the field are doing. One example would be the CISSP certification from ISC2. You can complete the certification exam. But if you lack the requisite experience and/or education. Your cert is 'put on ice', as they put it, until the prerequisites are met. A good middle ground.
