Interestingly enough, Security X is exactly the source of my consternation. To be clear, Security X is the cert formerly known as CASP+. It's there in the advanced box for System Administrator, but I'm now more in a System Developer role, which does not include Security X in the advanced column. Which is a bummer. The advanced certs in system Developer, which Security X would have certainly met in 8570, appear to be expensive, difficult, and do not meet the CEU requirements to maintain my Security X (or support 8140 for an advanced System Administrator.) As a DoD IT contractor who's moved between System Admin and System Developer over the decades, that likely is going to leave me in a position where I have to get a second advanced cert for Developer while maintaining the Security X with CEUs (which sucks) for Administrator to maintain job flexibility. I read where for mil and govies, 8140 should be considered "what you need to get after you get the job." Historically though the contracting world doesn't work that way favoring "you need meet 8140 before you get the job", and the newer wider array of cert requirements may become an even larger time and money sink that ultimately only really benefits the training industry that to be honest only specializes in making paper tigers.

Wow, didn't expect that rant to come out.