CompTIA Certifications Are Building Blocks For IT Careers

CompTIA Certifications are building blocks for IT Careers

Overview of certifications and why are they important?

Whether it is a quiz competition or a race amongst the best candidates to break into any industry certifications are considered to be a token of lucrative opportunities and career fortune.

There is a certification in every field or industry that ensures faster career growth by empowering an individual with skills and knowledge to manage, monitor, and, if possible, eradicate some issues in a specific field.

Likewise, IT industries thrive for a worthy certified candidate who can provide services according to their needs. There are many institutions that provide IT certifications, but the most popular and globally recognized certification institution is the CompTIA Association. 

CompTIA Association is a non-profit organization that is responsible for developing new courses according to the latest trends of IT industries and plays a major role in providing certifications based on skills that will help IT firms to grow enormously across the globe.

The certifications provided by CompTIA are vendor-neutral, which is appreciated by the organizations as it will indeed boost their growth tremendously.

Looking at certification from an individual’s perspective, one should always stress the point of benefits. Before achieving any sort of certification, the most anticipated question of an individual will be, “how will it be beneficial to me?” This is indeed a worthy question. 

The possible answer to this is that a certification from a globally recognized will undoubtedly increase an individual’s market value, the individual will be recognized by global companies, the individual will get a better position in a company and last but not the least the individual will get higher salary than a non-certified individual of the same position.

For instance, according to reports, a TOGAF Certified Professional gets 61% more salary as an Enterprise Architect than an Enterprise Architect who doesn’t have TOGAF certifications.

Skills in-demand are provided by CompTIA

CompTIA has something for all, from an entry level IT individual to an expert level IT professional the CompTIA has certification for each one of them. This versatile provision of certification makes CompTIA more popular and reliable. 

CompTIA courses are exhaustive as they focus on training individuals from all real time aspects.

Recently it has become more in demand certification because it comes with updated courses every year. It includes all the skills required to tackle the modern problems of the latest technological advancements.

CompTIA Certification 

There are typically four segments of CompTIA Certification; this is done to simplify and give an understanding to the aspirants. These segments are dedicated to a specific IT background that comprises all their aspects. These segments are:

1. Core Certification
2. Infrastructure Certification
3. Cybersecurity Certification
4. Additional Professional Certification

Core Certification

As it defines itself, this certification course is dedicated to providing an individual with all IT fundamentals and all the insights of IT fundamentally and conceptually. It is very important to understand the IT fundamentals before actually getting into the IT field. 

“As no man can form a word without knowing the alphabets.”

Hence, this certification is named as Core Certification. This certification is further classified into four certifications i.e.

• IT Fundamentals+ Certification
• CompTIA security+ Certification
• CompTIA A+ Certification
• CompTIA Network+ Certification

These are the 4 CompTIA’s Core Certifications that are called as the base of a foundational block of IT career. Each of these certifications focuses on a specific field of IT and provides skills and knowledge for the same.

Infrastructure Certification

This certification is based on skills that will make an individual well suited for intermediate to advanced level IT organizations and will ensure faster career growth of the individual with better pay.

This certification is further segmented into three certifications based on skills and knowledge.

• CompTIA Server+ Certification
• CompTIA Linux+ Certification
• CompTIA Cloud+ Certification

These certifications are based on skills as per their names. These certifications are appreciated in the IT world. The professionals certified with these certifications are more eligible and productive to play their roles for their organization.

Cybersecurity Certification

When it comes to certification in the IT world, then, the most valuable and highly important certification can achieve the Cybersecurity certification. These certifications aren’t easy to achieve, but once can’t be replaced by any other certification in the Cybersecurity field. 

CompTIA Certified Cybersecurity professionals are more prone to get a wide range of lucrative job opportunities than any other professional of a similar level. This role of a Cybersecurity professional is priceless and very vital for an IT-based organization in order to keep their information safe and protected from cyberattacks.

This certification further classified into three certifications as follows:

• CompTIA CySA+ Certification
• CompTIA CASP+ Certification
• CompTIA PenTest Certification

Each of these certification courses is vast and provides in-depth knowledge of the Cybersecurity field. Again each of these certifications is based on the skills one has expert in. 

So this certification is achieved by experienced IT professionals who have invested at least five years in the Cybersecurity field.

Additional Professional Certification

These are the certifications established by the CompTIA recently, but these certifications do not fit in the current certification programs of CompTIA. Yet, it is estimated that these certifications will be considered to be important in the near future.

These certifications are 

• CompTIA Project+ Certification
• CompTIA CTT+ Certification
• CompTIA Cloud Essentials

Conclusion:

Before gearing up to achieve any certification, an individual should understand the geographical demands of IT organizations. So one should understand the very demand of their region's IT market and then should achieve certification according to the same.