CompTIA needs input for their Storage+ certification, can you help?

The CompTIA folks are looking for some comments and feedback from those who are involved with data storage in various ways as part of planning for their upcoming enhancements to the Storage+ certification testing.

As a point of disclosure, I am member of the CompTIA Storage+ certification advisory committee (CAC), however I don’t get paid or receive any other type of renumeration for contributing my time to give them feedback and guidance other than a thank, Atta boy for giving back and playing it forward to help others in the IT community similar to what my predecessors did.

I have been asked to pass this along to others (e.g. you or who ever forwards it on to you).

Please take a few moments and feel free to share with others this link here to the survey for CompTIA Storage+.

What they are looking for is to validate the exam blueprint generated from a recent Job Task Analysis (JTA) process.

In other words, does the certification exam show real-world relevance to what you and your associates may be doing involved with data storage.

This is opposed to being aligned with those whose’s job it is to create test questions and may not understand what it is you the IT pro involved with storage does or does not do.

If you have ever taken a certification exam test and scratched your head or wondered out why some questions that seem to lack real-world relevance were included, vs. ones of practical on-the-job experience were missing, here’s your chance to give feedback.

Note that you will not be rewarded with an Amex or Amazon gift card, Starbucks or Dunkin Donuts certificates, free software download or some other incentive to play and win, however if you take the survey let me know and will be sure to tweet you an Atta boy or Atta girl! However they are giving away a free T-Shirt to every 10 survey takers.

Btw, if you really need something for free, send me a note (I’m not that difficult to find) as I have some free copies of Resilient Storage Networking (RSN): Designing Flexible Scalable Data Infrastructures (Elsevier) you simply pay shopping and handling. RSN can be used to help prepare you for various storage testing as well as other day-to-day activities.

CompTIA is looking for survey takers who have some hands-on experience or involved with data storage (e.g. can you spell SAN, NAS, Disk or SSD and work with them hands-on then you are a candidate ;).

Welcome to the CompTIA Storage+ Certification Job Task Analysis (JTA) Survey

Your input will help CompTIA evaluate which test objectives are most important to include in the CompTIA Storage+ Certification Exam

Your responses are completely confidential.

The results will only be viewed in the aggregate.

Here is what (and whom) CompTIA is looking for feedback from:

Has at least 12 to 18 months of experience with storage-related technologies.

Makes recommendations and decisions regarding storage configuration.

Facilitates data security and data integrity.

Supports a multiplatform and multiprotocol storage environment with little assistance.

Has basic knowledge of cloud technologies and object storage concepts.

As a small token of CompTIA appreciation for your participation, they will provide an official CompTIA T-shirt to every tenth (1 of every 10) person who completes this survey. Go here for official rules.

Click here to complete the CompTIA Storage+ survey

Contact CompTIA with any survey issues, research@comptia.org

What say you, take a few minutes like I did and give some feedback, you will not be on the hook for anything, and if you do get spammed by the CompTIA folks, let me know and I in turn will spam them back for spamming you as well as me.

Ok, nuff said

Cheers gs

Greg Schulz – Author Cloud and Virtual Data Storage Networking (CRC Press), The Green and Virtual Data Center (CRC Press) and Resilient Storage Networks (Elsevier)
twitter @storageio

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