Cert Week – A Career in Computer Forensics

This interview is from eForensics Magazine.

Interview with Gerard Johansen

Gerard Johansen is an incident response professional with over 15 years’ experience in areas like penetration testing, vulnerability management, threat assessment modeling, and incident response. Beginning his information security career as a cybercrime investigator, he has built on that experience while working as a consultant and security analyst for clients and organizations ranging from healthcare to finance.

Please tell us a bit more about yourself. What are your background and current job responsibilities?

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Cert Week – IPv4 Subnetting and Supernetting

I have just finished teaching a couple of CompTIA  Network+ classes.  One of the subject matter areas that most students struggle with is the concepts around Subnetting, Supernetting, Variable Length Subnet Masking (VSLM), Fixed Length Subnet Masking (FLSM), Classless Interdomain Routing (CIDR),

I recently found this collection of ten videos presented by 

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Cert Week – 4 Types of Cyber Security Training

An effective cybersecurity training program can protect your organization from most forms of threat.

Awareness training provides employees with basic cyber hygiene knowledge; technical security training helps prevent malware and hacking attacks; while compliance training ensures they adhere to industry standards.

Effective cybersecurity training integrates security into the culture of your organization and addresses ...

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Cert Week – Performance Based Questions for the A+ Certification Exam Part 2

By Bob Weiss

There are many performance based questions for the Core 1 and Core 2 A+ exams (220-1101 and 220-1102).  Most of what follows is from a slide deck I acquired when I was teaching the A+ for CompTIA’s IT Futures Foundation.  According to the metadata in the slide deck, this deck was assembled by instructor Andrew James Riemer in 2017.  So ...

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Cert Week – Performance Based Questions for the A+ Certification Exam Part 1

By Bob Weiss

There are many performance based questions for the Core 1 and Core 2 A+ exams (220-1101 and 220-1102).   I have taken every A+ exam since the 220-801 and 220-802.  I passed the most recent A+ exams 220-1101 and 1102 in September 2022.  These are the PBQs that were part of my exams.

The PBQ questions show up first.  There are between ...

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Cert Week – The Role of Mentorship in Professional Development

James Wilson is back with a great article on the role of mentorship in professional development.  I have enjoyed the support and encouragement of several mentors over my career.  Finding a mentor or being a mentored and nurturing that relationship can be vital to your career.

By James Wilson

When it comes to our careers, we all look for professional development. The journey towards professional development isn’t all about training and on-the-job experience. Mentorship, a crucial element of professional ...

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Certification Exams – Online or Test Center?

By Bob Weiss

I am active on the Reddit.com/r/CompTIA board, and I recently have been reading horror stories (again) about online testers whose online session was terminated by their proctor for very trivial reasons.  Reasons like leaning your head on your hand!  One recent post is from u/RepresentativeGuru474, which I have reposted below.

Don’t take any CompTIA certification online with PearsonVUE. You will regret it!
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