Janet Pinkerton Posts

India’s vibrant tech sector depends heavily on the talents of its IT trainers. But for years, India’s enterprises, including companies like Dell, Philips and HP, could not easily secure locally taught, vendor-neutral courses to sharpen trainers’ instructional skills and processes. Then CompTIA authorized partner Tekno Point began offering CompTIA Certified Technical Trainer (CTT+) classes.

CompTIA’s “Eleventh Annual Information Security Trends” study found that companies are not fully addressing a critical component to IT security: IT security skill levels within IT departments and IT security education for the entire workforce.

Negotiating a raise is a fundamental skill for any successful career. The trick is to anchor the request for a raise in information gathering and questions – never outright demands.

If you think participating in social media is a waste of time, CompTIA’s Nov. 14 webinar, “How to Use Social Media to be More Effective at your Job,” sponsored by the trade association’s Advancing Women in IT (AWIT) community, will convince you otherwise.

CompTIA Subject Matter Expert Tenette Prevatte began working in IT to make a car payment. Fast forward nearly 20 years, Prevatte is department chair for information systems security at Fayetteville (NC) Technical Community College, where she also teaches in-person and online classes. She encourages those who want to get into IT to get experience wherever possible. “Being able to troubleshoot is something no instructor can teach you how to do. That’s just something that comes from experience,” she said.

CompTIA and its exam development partner viaForensics are releasing the CompTIA Mobile App Security+ certification today. The exam is designed to validate that mobile application developers have the skills to securely create a native iOS or Android mobile app while also ensuring secure network communications and backend web services.

Today CompTIA releases CompTIA Cloud+, a new high-stakes certification exam for IT professionals working in environments that increasingly use cloud computing and virtualization technologies. The exam is ideal for those with at least two to three years of work experience in IT networking, network storage or data center administration—specialties that have seen rapid change due to cloud’s wide adoption as a competitive IT solution.

Given the rapid rate of change and the addition of new players in the cloud market, it’s rare that organizations will understand the entire scope of knowledge that they need to cut through the sales pitches and successfully deploy the cloud solution that is right for them. To address this problem, CompTIA worked with cloud subject matter experts to develop the CompTIA Cloud+ certification exam.

The panelists of the CompTIA webinar “How to Use Social Media for Professional Gain” have used social media to launch businesses, build personal and corporate brands, forge new partnerships and, for one, land a life coach for free.

CompTIA will retire the Printing and Document Imaging (PDI+) exam on Jan. 31, 2014. Vouchers for the exam are good until Jan. 31, 2014, the final day to take the exam. Anyone who has earned the CompTIA PDI+ certification will be certified for life.