CompTIA Certifies Home Network Integrators

prostoalex writes "Consumer Electronics Association and Computer Technology Industry Association introduced a new certification for individuals and companies installing home networks and connecting consumer electronics devices to a central PC: 'The certification is geared to individuals who install, integrate and maintain "smart" homes, in which the PC is the hub controlling lighting, security systems, audio-visual and digital entertainment gear, including home media centers.' The home networking market is predicted to grow at 20% a year globally."

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It's official. I can wire X10.

[lightversusdark]

Did any new standard supplant X10 in this field?

Isn't this basically an electrician with knowledge of niche product availability?

I can't imagine this qualifies you to build and install a soffit-mounted machine and code up some custom serial control. That's a service I would pay for.

CompTIA exams

[transporter_ii]

Got Network+ certified a couple of months ago. The actual test material isn't bad, and it covers a lot of networking fundamentals from a vendor neutral standpoint. I had heard they had really made the test a lot harder. Boy, if my test was hard, I would have hated to have seen the easy test. It seemed repetitive and all very easy, with a lot of port number questions, firewall questions, and basic TCP/IP utility questions, most of which I could have passed without hardly any actual study.

Now, I see no reason to make it so hard that hardly anybody can pass (Cisco are you listening?), but it would be nice to have a test that reflected the study material a little better. All in all, I have had Brainbench exams that were much, much harder to pass.

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Re:I coulda used someone with that cert

[iamstretchypanda]

A double agent is someone who works in the field/makes house calls and inside the store. They usually seem to be the best from my experience (i.e. they can sell you a part without reading the specs off the box). Hope that helps :]