Gregory Childers said:

Demand for CompTIA certs has been limited to A+, Net+, Sec+, and Cloud+. A few people take CySA+, PenTest+, SecurityX, and Project+, but employers don't ask for those certs on job listings. The rest of their certs are low demand from students and no demand from employers. The CompCerts will be fine for people who are pursuing knowledge for knowledge's sake on their own dime, but employers aren't likely to pay for a course that doesn't yield a respected certification or add skills directly to their current job role. I think the entire new line of CompCert courses will eventually be retired for lack of demand.

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Totally agree, I would add if it was not for the Department of Defense DoD 8140 Cyber Workforce Qualification Program requiring both IT staff (Both contractors and employees) to obtain CompTIA and even ISC certifications, the demand would be half.

Great

It sounds good!

Matthew Jennings said:

@DAVID PAPKIN thanks for posting this, I completely missed it but caught it just in time thanks to you!!!

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Welcome

The best you can do it make it accessible. They have the responsibility to stay engaged. They have to meet you halfway.


As the saying goes, "you can lead a horse to water, but you can't make him drink."

Ozidi Odunze said:

I'm interested. I'm A+ Certified, and has been a Trainer with IDC

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Hey there, contact me at [email protected]. Send your resume and a phone number.

Soneka Kamuhuza said:

Seeking a PT Instructor to teach CompTIA A+ TWTh 9-1pm EST. Remote-Online delivery. 8 Weeks 1202 only. 1201 already completed students ready to take exam in a few days. Email resume to [email protected]

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I'm interested. I'm A+ Certified, and has been a Trainer with IDC

Tess Sluijter said:

That sounds like a bad ordeal, I'm sorry to hear you went through this Soneka.

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It was several days of confusion and some angst but all is well now. As a Partner, I kept wondering whether I had missed an email or something and scoured my records to find nothing. Maybe they assumed that -as techs- we would know how SSO would apply in this regard.

precious said:

Greetings from the red team @DAVID PAPKIN you can register CompTIA AI Essentials TTT Series Here

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@DAVID PAPKIN thanks for posting this, I completely missed it but caught it just in time thanks to you!!!

Shea Bennett said:

Thus my years long battle to prove to companies that multiple choice is crap and to do labs and hands-on instead. Red Hat had this right from day 1.

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The lab activities that were an essential part of TestOut are what my employers appreciated. That "hands-on" practice prepared students for the certification, but also allowed them to wrestle with simulations that were based on real-world problems. While the CertMaster Learn products have some lab content, were are opting for the CertMaster Perform products for most of the courses that prepare for a certification. Hands-On Labs > Question Banks!!

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Complain to your account manager, or whatever fancy word CompTIA give to that role.... "partner success manager" or whatever. CompTIA needs clear signals from their partners via the right route.

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Unfortunately ever since I lost my VERY available and reliable Account Manager from LabSim, I have had to chase CompTIA to give me the name of someone. It took a student (by accident) to help me recover. All CompTIA had to do was send a properly worded alert before creating this mess. Frankly, it isn't even as complicated. Simply choose which account you want to use, then merge any other CompTIA/Labsim accounts with logins/email into that one account and ALL your products as a School or Student, will be available. DUH!

Even in Higher Ed, we have problems with students deciding to just drop out of school and discontinue their training. I'm afraid this has been a problem for quite a while - seems students are more non-committal these days.

All you can do, I think, is focus on the students that want to be there and learn. The ones that don't...well...

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I now urgently need (by tomorrow) the PowerPoint materials for it. Who can help me?

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I completely understand that you are hoping to circumvent the process, but we are not allowed to. I truly hope you get access to the materials in time.

Some vendors, such as OffSec, offer lab-based exams only. No MCQs anywhere in their exams.

Shea Bennett said:

Not sure what part of the country your located, but that may have been the case 15 years ago. Their no longer the go to anymore.

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The last time I used Robert Half was in the 1990s. I had forgotten about them completely.

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But we all understand why......

Summary of Cost Drivers:

• Development Time: PBQs require substantial investment in the initial design and creation of a realistic task or scenario, whereas MCQs rely on a more standardized, though still time-intensive, writing process.
• Grading Efficiency: Automated grading of MCQs eliminates ongoing scoring costs. PBQs, by contrast, demand significant, ongoing personnel costs for manual scoring and quality control.
• Logistics: The infrastructure for delivering and managing PBQs in a consistent environment is more complex and costly than the relatively simple technological requirements for most computer-based MCQs.

In essence, while PBQs offer a more valid approach to measuring practical skills and application of knowledge, their superior assessment quality comes at a substantially increased financial and logistical cost.

I completely get it, maybe it is the way they are using the platform that is the issue, this was something I often found when dipping into other classes, to motivate them on the old platform (learn.Comptia.org) you could get them to RAG rate their understanding of a topic then get them to visit the confidence levels tab at the top or to reflect on their Strengths and weaknesses, once again this is found on the old platform you could get them to run the games too (though very few did in my cohorts).

On the new platform (Platform.CompTIA.org), this is a little more tricky, not only is it more difficult to see where your cohort sits in their understanding as you don't get to see it as easily as you have to go digging for it, but they can not RAG rate themselves which I find a bonkers omission as it is something we used all the time in our cohorts, trainers and curriculum leads could view their progress and advise them.

I take it you find they rather that cover the lesson content, the learners are just taking the inline tests, then wondering why they don't do well?

I, too, find it more of a challenge, but only on the new platform, not so much on the old due to the above reasons

Awesome, i will definitely jump onthis. thanks

I don't know anything about Tech+, but as a supervisor. I wouldn't entertain it at all. I would take the A+ or TCM Security PHDA (https://certifications.tcm-sec.com/phda/) before I would pay any attention to Tech+. Especially, since they have some technical immersion also.

For me and many other IT supervisors I work with (hundreds of them), I need people who can come into the datacenter or work environment to be teachable and able to hit the ground running. The days of waiting a year for someone to get up to speed are dead. It's just way too competitive and so many people are coming out of high school now-a-days with day 1 skills in cloud, linux, etc. Many young folks are highly adaptable when given the right environment and support, but the least I would personally consider for something I pay someone or a path to internship would be A+, AWS Cloud Practitioner (which is fairly easy) or Google Cloud Digital Leader (also, fairly easy). We have recently begun adding the Google AI Generative AI Leader since it's basic and easy. The thing is, if your not doing something employers care about, just pumping people through courses won't matter.

It may be beneficial to get with some companies in the area of your school to see what they are looking for so that you are training with a focus instead of arbitrarily picking something no one wants or has demand for.

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I really hope their focusing more on hands-on labs and actual scenario's versus yet another multiple choice exam.

Gregory Childers said:

There are newbies on Reddit who are passing exams with zero experience by watching Messer's and Dion's videos while using Quizlet to study definitions and acronyms. Over the years, the exams have become far too easy. I didn't have a single subnetting question on the most recent version of Network+.

They should make HALF the exam PBQs. Separate the exam crammers from the real tech people.

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Thus my years long battle to prove to companies that multiple choice is crap and to do labs and hands-on instead. Red Hat had this right from day 1.

Gregory Childers said:

I was under the impression that Robert Half is where entry-level tech people go between jobs.

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Not sure what part of the country your located, but that may have been the case 15 years ago. Their no longer the go to anymore.