Most people know that CompTIA is a leader of vendor-neutral IT certifications, but did you know that their certifications like the A+ and Network+ certs can apply to your Cisco CCENT and CCNA certs? Take a look:

For a limited time, the folks at Certification Partners and CompTIA are offering a CTP+ Pre-Assessment at no cost.

The Pre-Assessment consists of 65 multiple-choice questions on topics like:

* Data networking
* Telephony networking
* Convergence technologies

Handy with a video camera or web cam? Enter CompTIA’s Get IT video contest! CompTIA is having a contest where users can submit their own 60-second video on the topic of “Why certify?” The public will vote on the videos they like the best, and CompTIA is giving away $5,000 in prizes! Want to enter? Here’s […]

For those who don’t know, CompTIA will retire their “lifetime certification” policy at the end of this year. For everyone who is certified before December 31, 2010, the credential is good for life. Starting January 1, 2011, however, any new certification holders will have to renew their credentials every three years. CompTIA has now posted information […]

Times change, Certifications change and skill sets change  –  seems everything has or is changing in IT. This holds true for Windows Server 2003 certifications  –  some of which have been around for six years.  CompTIA has been encouraging those who hold their certifications to “update” them with newer releases (A+ Certification from 1999 is little different from the […]

Learn about CompTIA’s new Security Trustmark program, which identifies solution providers that follow security best practices. From the program Web page: The CompTIA Security Trustmark was developed in 2008 in response to member requests for the development of industry security best practices and a designation for businesses that follow them. Read the VAR Guy’s full article on […]