ACI Learning Reviews

Prefers in real life labs to get use to so many different tools and components.

The instructor was put in a situation where he was behind from the beginning. I think the sheer volume of powerpoint slides made it impossible for him to catch up to the course. I benefitted most from the homework material. I especially found the TestOut LabSim exercises to be helpful. I wish we had the opportunity to cover them in class as stated in the syllabus.

It was a very dry course and I think doing it via distance learning made it tougher

This class can be easily be 3 to 4 weeks because there is a lot of material. Many days felt like information overload.

When signing up for this class I was worried about it being online and accelerated. It's been very challenging for me with no experience not sure how I will do moving forward. The labs and lecture seem to be different curriculum's. In labs I have a hard time figuring them out because I've never tried or been shown how to troubleshoot scenarios. Instructor does help when asked to repeat but stuff but so much material needs to be pushed out I'm finding it hard to grasp the curriculum fully.

Overall, it was a good training but some of the portion can be further enhanced as it centrally focus on General IT Controls and Application Controls. Also, I think further discussion before the training to set the course topic, our IT environment, etc. can enhance the learning and topic discussions.

Instructor practically just read the words off of the powerpoint slides and often read them wrong as well as mislabeling acronyms throughout the course. The instructor may be knowledgeable about this field, but is not great at teaching that knowledge.

A lot of the material that was in the content section of the course seemed to align too much with other certifications than it did with Security+. There was a lot of information that just didn't seem to match or be that pertinent to the exam requirements. The labs seemed to be more geared towards CEH or CND than for Security+ since they got so deep in the weeds unnecessarily, where Security+ seems to be more broad focused. I understand the desire to have an in depth understanding of the concepts but there's already so much material to learn and study that the other content becomes too overwhelming and kind of diverts from the core knowledge that's needed for Security+. It almost seemed as if the course was trying to teach 3 or 4 different subjects at the same time and felt unfocused. All of the content was helpful in the general scheme of IT and there was certainly a lot that I learned but I feel that I lost more of the Security+ focused material than I would have liked.

Network+ was challenging

The instructor did the best he could given the time and material given. The syllabus homework did not match up with the material covered for the day which added confusion and inefficient time for studying. The time allowed for covering the material was very limited. The course should have been longer to allow more time for absorption and proper assimilation of the material. Also, the videos in the course material were different than the labs given which added a level of discontinuity that made understanding the processes more inefficient and harder to comprehend. The material should