CompTIA i-Net+ Certification Will Retire December 31, 2007

Megadeth4168

http://certification.comptia.org/get_news.aspx?prid=1256

Well, So much for me studying for this one..... I had just gotten a book for 50 cents last week and thought that I might take this exam just for fun....

Maybe I still will, I do get reimbursement from work, and it does in a way deal directly with my job as one of my many roles here is a webmaster role.

sthomas

Interesting, I kinda wanted to take this exam for fun in the future. I wonder if it would even be worth taking now since they are retiring the exam.

Megadeth4168

According to CompTIA, the certification will remain valid, I'm assuming, like all other CompTIA certifications, this one will be for life as well.

Stotic

I was going to take this as well for the hell of it. I heard they were going to revise it, but now that its retiring, its hard to justify $225 for an exam that no one will know exists in a few years (or even now for that matter).

cgrimaldo

That's interesting. I was going to take it as well. It does make sense though. I guess I won't have that cert on my belt!

Plantwiz

Thanks for posting the link Megadeth!


If you have plans to take the exam....go ahead and take it. I'll guess they are retiring because even by their press release they only 20,000 people who have the certification. No very many.

There are other certs that you may find to be more interesting like (CIW)...otherwise, you have 6 months left to add one additional 'vendor-neutral' cert.

iNET+ has received bad press from candidates because it's very similar to NET+ and really not that distinct in the marketplace.

If you weren't taking it...then don't. If you've already prepared...go ahead and knock it out.

NinjaBoy

Thanks for the info, I bought the books to study for it last year (before the Vista beta exams came out), but it just got pushed back. With this news, I don't think I have the time (or now the inclination) to study for something that's going to be discontinued in a few short months

-Ken

petedude

. . . you have the inclination.

The big one is that if you're applying to/attending college, many schools will accept the iNet+ for credit if it doesn't overlap other coursework. A nice, easy 3 credits.

A smaller benefit is that there's some other lesser-known Internet-related cert that you can roll the iNet into for $50. Maybe someone else remembers. . .

I wish I'd done this one back when CIW was accepting it toward their basic Web certs. That would have been way cool.

sthomas

petedude wrote:

A smaller benefit is that there's some other lesser-known Internet-related cert that you can roll the iNet into for $50. Maybe someone else remembers. .

I think you are refering to the CWS from the ETA. I rolled my A+/Net+ to CST and CNST and have found no benefit to it but maybe that is just me.

http://www.studyexam4less.com/eta.asp

johnnyg5646

I'm disapointed this one is going away. I was hoping it would get a better rep after they revised the test. It also kind of sucks to have spent time and money on a test that is now invalid. Oh well.

cacharo

It is not invalid, it will stay a good cert. Just because they are not offering it does not invalidate existing ones. In fact I am still working on taking it before it expires.