Post-secondary college here!

Hemlock said:

Anyone here work for an organization that also runs a pearsonvue test center?
Does your public test center get paid for running exams?
IIRC, private test centers do not get paid, but public ones should. Is that still the case?
Thanks!

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Yes - a number of our campuses run a Pearson VUE testing center. They have a dedicated test center administrator, and yes, we are paid for hosting and administering exams (otherwise we wouldn't do it).

In a physical lab, provisioning a bare metal server (e.g., with Proxmox) and configuring iDRAC or iLO is a valuable skill for IT students.
If, however, your students could benefit from building some upper body strength, I suggest: https://www.cloudfest.com/world-server-throwing-championship

Gregory Childers said:

I thought CloudNetX was more challenging than either the Cloud+ or the Network+. I recently passed my fifth version of Network+ and my second version of Cloud+, and I thought that those two were much less challenging. There were definitely topics on CloudNetX that weren't on the other two. And the PBQs were much higher level.

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Ditto here - more hybrid cloud-specific design and technology topics for me too that I didn't notice on Network+ or Cloud+ (hence the theme I approached the CloudNetX TTT with).

Gregory Childers said:

CompTIA should have designated representatives for publishing proposed/approved new certifications and offerings to the CompTIA Instructor Network.

It's a shame that we find out about new stuff no sooner than the general public at large.

Seriously, you will find no advocates for CompTIA more knowledgeable or enthusiastic than CompTIA Instructors, but we're out of the loop far too often.

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Pshhhaww... C'mon Greg. You're an instructor. Being the last to know is part of the job, mate.

Stephen Schneiter said:

I am not a salesperson, and I know this sounds like a pitch, but I really like CertMaster Practice as a practice exam tool. I have been using it for CompTIA certs I have taken, and to me, it really does a good job, especially with the reinforcement on missed questions. If you have not purchased anything yet, I would suggest taking a look at it.

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I'm going to recommend the Twilight Episode, "One for the Angels" for you Steve. I'll be the guy in the black suit...because, of course I'm the guy in the black suit.

Gregory Childers said:

I used Transcender back in the day to get my MCSE.

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Transcender used to be the gold standard. It was said that if you could pass a Transcender exam, proper, you would definitely pass the live exam. But I think they started deteriorating when they were bought by Kaplan, incorporated, and then spun back out as CyberVista. I tried to jump in as a question contributor - until I got too busy to develop and had to pull back from that. As I said before, the questions are good for reinforcement of concepts, but in the years that I assessed them, they weren't certification grade. So I used them for what they were - good for students to build confidence in concepts. A key question type that was missing are the good old GAS questions.

I'll agree that CertMaster has been getting better and better - I remember CertMaster 1.0, even. I like CMP, but I always worry that I'm not adequately prepared, even if I finish all the CMP questions and can tell you why the other answers are wrong. And then I go take a test and get an 800-900 or something. I stress myself out so much, because I hate to fail anything (and only did it once).

I've commented on this a couple times, an analysis on "Validating" vs. "Sharpening", so I'm going to just link back to the better one - rather than typing it out again.

/r

CompTIA should have designated representatives for publishing proposed/approved new certifications and offerings to the CompTIA Instructor Network.

It's a shame that we find out about new stuff no sooner than the general public at large.

Seriously, you will find no advocates for CompTIA more knowledgeable or enthusiastic than CompTIA Instructors, but we're out of the loop far too often.

Stephen Schneiter said:

I am not a salesperson, and I know this sounds like a pitch, but I really like CertMaster Practice as a practice exam tool. I have been using it for CompTIA certs I have taken, and to me, it really does a good job, especially with the reinforcement on missed questions. If you have not purchased anything yet, I would suggest taking a look at it.

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I have used the CompTIA official curriculum, which I guess is now called CertMaster Learn, for 20 years. I find it to be comprehensive and easy to understand.

The CertMaster Labs are better today than they've ever been. The CertMaster Practice is hit or miss. Some questions are intentionally misleading or tricky. I have found that if I get higher than 60% on the practice exams, I'm almost assured of passing the actual exam.

jasoneckert said:

Ah - security for the 'non-carpeted IT'

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Wait - you have carpet? I didn't approve this. Back to the concrete with you.

Jill West said:

I got the impression CloudNetX was basically a blend of Net+ and Cloud+ with very little covered outside the existing scope of those two, lower level exams. Whereas with SecurityX, it seems to be a bit more of a higher level exam--a jump above PenTest+/CySA+. But I took the CloudNetX beta, so it might've changed by the time it got to the official release.

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I thought CloudNetX was more challenging than either the Cloud+ or the Network+. I recently passed my fifth version of Network+ and my second version of Cloud+, and I thought that those two were much less challenging. There were definitely topics on CloudNetX that weren't on the other two. And the PBQs were much higher level.

Ah - security for the 'non-carpeted IT'

Jill West said:

I've taken AWS's Solutions Architect Associate exam, and I wouldn't say it was comparable. That's more what I was expecting, but I might've gotten all the easy CloudNetX questions, lol. Maybe the harder CloudNetX questions that I somehow didn't get would hit at about the Associate level for AWS's exams. Any of the cloud Professional level exams (like Google's that you mentioned) would be at a much higher level than anything I saw on the CloudNetX.

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I'm repeating what's on CompTIA exam's site. Google professional exam are not exactly easy and the CCDE is ridiculously difficult .

Jill West said:

Anyone heard of this one yet? I don't see draft objectives posted on the CompTIA site yet. Definitely interested in more info!

https://www.prnewswire.com/news-rel...ills-in-operational-technology-302453975.html

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*adding it to my watchlist*

baylis said:

From what I understand its comparable to AWS Solution Architect / Google Professional Cloud Architect / CCDE

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I've taken AWS's Solutions Architect Associate exam, and I wouldn't say it was comparable. That's more what I was expecting, but I might've gotten all the easy CloudNetX questions, lol. Maybe the harder CloudNetX questions that I somehow didn't get would hit at about the Associate level for AWS's exams. Any of the cloud Professional level exams (like Google's that you mentioned) would be at a much higher level than anything I saw on the CloudNetX.

Jill West said:

I got the impression CloudNetX was basically a blend of Net+ and Cloud+ with very little covered outside the existing scope of those two, lower level exams. Whereas with SecurityX, it seems to be a bit more of a higher level exam--a jump above PenTest+/CySA+. But I took the CloudNetX beta, so it might've changed by the time it got to the official release.

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Jill West said:

I got the impression CloudNetX was basically a blend of Net+ and Cloud+ with very little covered outside the existing scope of those two, lower level exams. Whereas with SecurityX, it seems to be a bit more of a higher level exam--a jump above PenTest+/CySA+. But I took the CloudNetX beta, so it might've changed by the time it got to the official release.

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From what I understand its comparable to AWS Solution Architect / Google Professional Cloud Architect / CCDE

Gregory Childers said:

I wish they would. My Data+ is up for renewal in November, and my DataSys+ is up next year.

I think there is probably as much overlap between CloudNetX and Net+/Cloud+ as there is in SecurityX and PenTest+/CySA+/Security+.

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I got the impression CloudNetX was basically a blend of Net+ and Cloud+ with very little covered outside the existing scope of those two, lower level exams. Whereas with SecurityX, it seems to be a bit more of a higher level exam--a jump above PenTest+/CySA+. But I took the CloudNetX beta, so it might've changed by the time it got to the official release.

I am not a salesperson, and I know this sounds like a pitch, but I really like CertMaster Practice as a practice exam tool. I have been using it for CompTIA certs I have taken, and to me, it really does a good job, especially with the reinforcement on missed questions. If you have not purchased anything yet, I would suggest taking a look at it.

Tess Sluijter said:

Based on my years on r/comptia, I'd say the top 5 are:

1. Test-takers not reading and following the technical instructions or rules.
2. PearsonVue's CDN for video streaming, which does not span the globe effectively.
3. The quality of PearsonVue's OnVue software, which leads to crashes, hangs and slow performance.
4. Proctors maliciously or un-expertly handling their responsibilities.
5. Test-takers misinterpreting timezones and scheduling.

Your final sentence, the addition about test-takers personal qualities, I find too judgmental. Students can influence #1, but not the other four.

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Based on my time on that subreddit, #1 is the cause of the majority of incidents.

I also did not see any disrespect in Tess’ question. Let us remember that we, as fellow trainers, are on the same team.

Nobody’s integrity was insulted, IMO.

Onward and upward, my friends.

Congrats+

I've some difficulties with keybord when I want to use some keys in applied labs.

Some questions are like this. We can't make more than one choice. Need to be update

Hello

Wondering how you want to benefit from the CertMaster Learn class, test, quiz capabilities but still not use it.

If you have access/permission to set up students within your company certMaster Learn account - do add students to the classes you have created and set quiz or any compentecy assessement as needed. CertMaster provides all of those functionality

IF you feel you dont want to use it or dont have access- then use any thirdparty testing tool that gives you capacity to track students responses and scores or at the bare minimal just use google forms,microsoft form, surveyMonkey, Kobo tool box - at least they work -

The advantage of using the CertMaster learn system is that you can easily pick up and add questions to the pool from the exisiting questions there based on objectives.

I hope this helps

Thanks.

Tess Sluijter said:

Based on my years on r/comptia, I'd say the top 5 are:

1. Test-takers not reading and following the technical instructions or rules.
2. PearsonVue's CDN for video streaming, which does not span the globe effectively.
3. The quality of PearsonVue's OnVue software, which leads to crashes, hangs and slow performance.
4. Proctors maliciously or un-expertly handling their responsibilities.
5. Test-takers misinterpreting timezones and scheduling.

Your final sentence, the addition about test-takers personal qualities, I find too judgmental. Students can influence #1, but not the other four.

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Very true @Tess Sluijter I have had to take exams both at test centers and at times through OnVue.

The quality of PearsonVue's Onvue software can be lacking in terms of quality.

with respect to students - seen students misinterpreting time zones and at the end of the day missing exams.

One good thing PearsonVue is the ability to have as much rescheduling allowed if you appeal and provide enough evidence of some of these glitches which is a huge plus.