ACI Learning Reviews

The pace wasn't nearly as cut-throat as Sec+.

Ronald Clanton has extensive knowledge that helps ease some of the intimidation of learning IT components and network. He is fairly interactive and provide extra videos outside of ACI that supplements what we learn.

It was just a lot of content to squeeze into a ten day period.

Even though I have a hard time learning without being hands on, I would have benefited with a textbook on the material. I found myself doing online searches for explanation of different terms. The online labs, on the other hand, were very beneficial.

The course itself and the material is great! My biggest suggestion and/or concern is that I feel that ACI could have done a better job making sure that perspective students better understand the program structure prior to enrolling. The course dates were clearly explained, what was not clearly explained in my opinion is the way the certifications are achieved. This led to mismanaged expectations and set some of us up for failure in our approach to this course. Many of us have had to adjust our plan for how to negotiate the certifications after starting and learning how things actually work. Moreover, this concept was compounded by a misleading ITIL instructor that led our entire class to believe that taking the people cert ITIL exam was not necessary. He did a great job teaching ITIL but with the misinformation about the certification, many of us felt behind the power curve moving forward from ITIL

I would like this instructor (Tre Smith) to teach me in my next class SEC+

Instructor taught thoroughly, offered to stay behind or come in early and even on a weekend. He is very professional and brings a lot of life experiences into what he teaches for a better understanding on how many of the objectives relate to real life scenarios.

It's a course that definitely enhances my MAR skills. I thought it was a bit rushed and we skipped a lot of concepts due to the time constraints, which is understandable.

Slides are wordy and use acronyms that require further research. I was able to find slides outside of class that explained the material much better. However, the lab practices and Comptia sites were very informative and useful.

There was just way too much information with this course to digest as a novice computer user in a two week span. If I pass this test it certainly wont be because I know what I'm talking about, it will be blind luck with a little bit of knowledge. This course is making me seriously consider dropping out of the entire program, as I'm seriously questioning my aptitude for the information and don't want to waste the VA educational benefit on something I cant comprehend.