Articles about certifications
The CompTIA Security+ exam voucher retails for $404 USD directly from CompTIA — and that's before you add a retake, study materials, or any bundle. A lot of...
Read More »Jason Dion's Security+ course has over a million Udemy enrollments. That's not a marketing claim — it's the actual enrollment counter on his course page, which.
Read More »The PMP exam has a 60% first-attempt pass rate according to PMI's own data — meaning a lot of people show up underprepared. The difference between passing and..
Read More »PMI rejected roughly 1 in 5 PMP applications in recent audit cycles — not because candidates lacked experience, but because they documented it wrong. Before...
Read More »Most people who fail the PMP application don't fail because of missing experience — they fail because they documented it wrong. The PMP exam prerequisites are..
Read More »AWS holds roughly 31% of the global cloud market — more than Azure and Google Cloud combined. That market position has a direct effect on hiring: AWS...
Read More »Search "CompTIA Reddit" and you'll find r/CompTIA sitting at 350,000+ members — one of the most active certification communities on the platform. The...
Read More »Pearson VUE is the only way to sit a CompTIA exam. Every A+, Security+, Network+, CySA+, and CASP+ attempt—whether at a test center or through online...
Read More »CompTIA sells the certification. Pearson VUE delivers the exam. That distinction matters more than most candidates realize — because when your test day goes...
Read More »Seventy percent of cybersecurity job postings that list a certification requirement name CompTIA Security+ specifically. That's not a coincidence — it's the...
Read More »CompTIA renamed CASP+ to SecurityX (exam code CAS-005) in late 2024. If you searched for "CompTIA CASP" and landed here mid-study-plan, the short version is:...
Read More »According to CyberSeek, there are currently over 460,000 open cybersecurity jobs in the US — and a significant chunk of them list the CySA+ certification as a..
Read More »PMI published salary data showing that certified project managers earn a median 33% more than their non-certified peers. But here's what that stat doesn't tell.
Read More »CompTIA CertMaster Learn runs $319–$469 per certification, depending on which exam you're targeting. That's before you've paid for the exam voucher itself. A...
Read More »Most IT professionals pursuing cloud certifications go straight for AWS, Azure, or GCP credentials. CompTIA Cloud+ gets overlooked — and for some roles, that's.
Read More »Google renamed AdWords to Google Ads in 2018, but "Google AdWords certified" still gets searched nearly 2,000 times a month. That tells you something useful: a.
Read More »The average IT support technician earns around $47,000. The average server administrator earns $72,000. CompTIA Server+ is one of the credentials that marks...
Read More »CompTIA quietly added something most people overlook: when you earn certain combinations of their certifications, they issue you a second credential called a...
Read More »Only 12% of CompTIA Security+ holders ever go on to earn the CASP+ cert. That gap isn't because the others aren't ambitious — it's because CASP+ is genuinely...
Read More »CompTIA issued its one-millionth A+ certification back in 2013. More than a decade later, it still appears in a disproportionate share of entry-level IT job...
Read More »Security+ is listed as a requirement or preference on more cybersecurity job postings than any other entry-level cert — including CEH and SSCP. If you're...
Read More »The A plus cert is the most attempted IT certification in the world — CompTIA has issued over 1.3 million of them. That kind of volume cuts both ways: it's a...
Read More »The U.S. Department of Defense mandates CASP+ for certain cybersecurity roles under Directive 8140. That single fact separates it from most advanced security...
Read More »The N10-009 exam has 90 questions and a 90-minute clock. That breaks down to roughly one question per minute — except performance-based simulations front-load..
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