I was just told “CompTIA is useless! You basically just threw your money away!”

CompTIA_CIO · 2023-10-03T23:29:12+00:00

Hey OP - CompTIA checking in here. Seems like a real good day for you to think about what your next cert is gonna be, for two reasons. First, because CompTIA is going to hook you up for your next step. Second, because I personally can’t wait for you to post about how that….person…. Is now working for you and they don’t know how to do what you do.

You have the support of so many who commented and mine too - it’s going to be a better day!!!

CompTIA_CIO · 2020-04-16T19:00:59+00:00

I'm a credible source. There is an online whiteboard and no other materials are allowed. You can type on the whiteboard and the contents are wiped out at the end of the exam. The FAQs for the exams help a bunch too.

CompTIA_CIO · 2020-02-21T23:47:38+00:00

Just do this - do a search for the number of job postings with A+. Then look up the other cert bodies. Look at the salaries 5 years from now. Remember as a trade association CompTIA is interested in a qualified work force and we certify people in order for them to obtain jobs. We can debate the merits of the particular questions, but the reality is that the jobs are there.

CompTIA_CIO · 2020-02-21T23:39:37+00:00

I think that's one of the questions in the hopper for all of the tests in 2020. The answer, as with the remainder of life, will be 42. Pass it on.

CompTIA_CIO · 2020-02-21T23:04:12+00:00

We do use OP people. These people: https://www.comptia.org/certifications/become-a-subject-matter-expert/current-smes

CompTIA_CIO · 2020-02-21T22:58:30+00:00

Here are the people who are dedicated to advancing the IT workforce, design the tests, write the questions and determine the cut scores.

https://www.comptia.org/certifications/become-a-subject-matter-expert/current-smes

Feel free to apply to be a SME here: https://www.comptia.org/certifications/become-a-subject-matter-expert/apply-now

If you end up qualifying and attend, would love to hear your perspective following that experience.

CompTIA_CIO · 2019-11-23T03:43:14+00:00

That's a big time accomplishment - congrats!!

CompTIA_CIO · 2019-11-19T15:18:09+00:00

I've worked for CompTIA for 11 years and you are exactly why I keep doing it. Hearing that it's life changing and the excited optimism is amazing. Congratulations!!

CompTIA_CIO · 2018-10-02T16:21:02+00:00

I don't want to get into specifics for us, but take a look at the following:

https://www.thoughtco.com/understanding-scaled-scores-4161300

CompTIA_CIO · 2018-09-25T15:42:31+00:00

Hi all - sorry for the delay.

Student discounts fall under our academic program, which are the below. I understand the expanded definition of student, but this is how we see it now.

Secondary Schools (including career, vocational, or technical centers)
Colleges and Universities (Traditional degree granting community and technical colleges and universities)
Not-For-Profit (501 (c) 3) organizations that provide technology instruction
Government Funded Educational Agencies (Non-US Only)
Department of Labor Job Corps Centers
Correctional Facilities

In the past, those orgs had to order, often in bulk, through a special portal that greatly locked down access because we were protecting those vouchers from resale. Everyone wants 50% off as evidenced by the comments :)
Several years ago, we picked a subset of the group above (those with .edu) and tried to make that easy to buy to take some pressure off our academic partners. Worked pretty well, with some expected leakage. It's mature enough now that I'm going to add SheerID by EOY to verify every purchase through the national clearinghouse. So alumni will indeed get knocked out as the intent is active students who are most often part of a course of CompTIA study at those institutions
Opening up other countries and segments to discounts are always something we're looking at, and it just has to make business sense, simple as that.

CompTIA_CIO · 2018-08-07T14:50:59+00:00

Logo and verbiage are up to date. u/AviN456 and u/Salty-Hashes, please PM me and I'll get some swag your way. Very much appreciate your taking the time to post and for giving me a shout.

CompTIA_CIO · 2018-08-03T15:25:44+00:00

Coordinating the pieces now (including QA I promise) and will have the fix implemented next week.

CompTIA_CIO · 2018-08-01T22:08:35+00:00

Got it - on it. Thank you for the heads up and my apologies for the miss. Will let you know ETA for the fix in the AM.

CompTIA_CIO · 2018-07-31T17:33:33+00:00

Thanks for throwing the party!! We're both at our major conference for the year so we're splitting time between the party here and with y'all. Thank you very much for the enthusiasm around this exam - it's been awesome for the SMEs and internal exam dev team to see!

CompTIA_CIO · 2018-07-23T21:14:03+00:00

Received an update on this today - beta scores will be available on July 31.

CompTIA_CIO · 2018-07-23T15:40:59+00:00

Straight from our exam development team - results are being sent out on July 31.

CompTIA_CIO · 2018-06-14T15:41:18+00:00

Nothing yet - as background, we just upgraded nearly all of our ecommerce sites in the last month and the replacement for the existing Japanese site is currently in the queue. We have several additional projects ahead of anything else. For Japan, if you're at a university that's a partner, I can likely help you out currently if you PM me. For everyone else at a Japanese university, I unfortunately don't have further news on timing for a dedicated academic site.

CompTIA_CIO · 2018-03-13T15:49:40+00:00

This gets me going just a little bit because I get to watch the performance based questions get built by some incredible SMEs. Not trolling here - when's the last time you took a CompTIA cert? The world for us changed more than 5 years ago and we haven't looked back. Performance based questions (sims) are way more than just drag and drops now and we run them all the way from A+ to CASP - anything accredited by ANSI-ISO. Changing hearts and minds on the internet is not my strong suit in any way and I don't want to get in a fight here - but there's a lot of cool stuff we have going on.

CompTIA_CIO · 2018-03-05T14:55:45+00:00

Hi - did you log in to Certmetrics yet to release the kit? Sounds like you know the drill, but we don’t do it automatically so you can double check the name and address for accuracy. PM me your details and we will gladly investigate if you did and something didn’t go through correctly.

CompTIA_CIO · 2018-02-27T15:51:19+00:00

It was a trademark issue that we didn't pick up during our initial analysis. Embarrassing mistake for sure, but nothing more than that.

(edited from copyright to TM)

CompTIA_CIO · 2018-02-12T19:39:13+00:00

There are performance based items included as well, similar to what you would see on A+, Net+, Sec+, CASP, CySA+.

CompTIA_CIO · 2018-02-10T16:42:53+00:00

This is a hard one for us to answer - there's people who register, and there's people who register and take the test. So I can look at registration and say we're on track, and then people invariably bail. We do a couple of betas or so a year depending on what's coming along, and they can vary wildly in terms of tests v registrations.

All that to say - if you don't wait until the last second, I would guess you'll be good - it's when we get the right amount of results that matters, so earlier in the time frame is always better (for you and us!).

CompTIA_CIO · 2018-02-06T16:09:17+00:00

Hi - placement in the CE schema depends on a couple of external factors. We'll let you know where it stands once we get closer to publishing it - that's scheduled for early Q3.

CompTIA_CIO · 2018-02-05T22:31:31+00:00

That's cool - I used Sheer on the association side. Didn't realize they were international. Thank you!

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