I believe you do have to pay the full price again.
I'd like to take all the compTIA exams myself some day, they are not really high up there, but they don't expire, so at least you just have to do it once.
The hard part is finding the motivation to study for countless hours for months, on my own time.
Ok, I've checked it out, and they are pretty helpful. The only question I still have is if you fail the test do you have to pay full price to take it again?
I'd like to take all the compTIA exams myself some day, they are not really high up there, but they don't expire, so at least you just have to do it once.
Just an FYI, you can often use multiple compTIA certs to meet a requirement of a higher up cert from another vendor. I believe 2 comptia certs will meet one of the 5 required tests for an MCSE (or whatever it is these days). So in the end you would walk away with 3 certs or just do the straight MCSE and walk away with 1.
I'd go for the three. Even if they aren't high end certs, they do look good on a resume.
Go for your RHCE instead, not some bullshit multiple choice exam. Goodluck either way.
Full price again. http://www.getcertify4less.com has discounts.. I've used them 2x with no problems.
read up.. IF you get certified before the end of this year they do not expire.. if you get certified in 2011 they expire in 3 years..
Ouch, are they changing them to expire? That's going to suck. No way I have time to study all that by 2011 unless I quit my job and did just that lol. Guess it ain't going to happen. I find it silly how they make them expire in 3 years. It takes about that much time just to study and do them. (the high end ones like MS and Cisco, anyway)
There will probably be 'refresher' tests to stay current. But, honestly, it shouldn't take you 3 years to study for most of the CompTIA certs. Some of the more complex MS and Cisco certs will take longer, but if it takes you three years, you're in the wrong field.
Technology evolves, grows, and changes. People working in this career field have to stay on top of it.
Considering most of these tests are based on learning tons of stuff by heart (in the real world you can look it up) it does take quite a while, especially the tests that require like 95% to pass. I find that just crazy. Certs are nothing but a money grabber, really. Sadly some jobs require them so they're still something everyone should try to get.
They don't prove anything about the person's knowledge though. Anyone who has good memory can try to memorize the 1,000+ page books that go with those certs.
IMO that's why the Red Hat exams actually mean something, you can't memorize a bunch of crap for them, you have to actually know what you're doing. And you have to retake it every 2 releases.
Oh are they actually hands on? This is how certs should be, imo.