Recently CompTIA has reneged on their agreements with over 800,000 CompTIA cert holders.
Here is a direct quote from CompTIA's 2005 website, still viewable in the web archieves:
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"Our certifications are good for life. Once you are certified, you are certified for life. The certifications do not have an expiration date nor do you have to retake a test after an upgrade."
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http://web.archive.org/web/200510010...n/default.aspx
This year CompTIA has gone back on their word, and is invalidating certs that are more than three years old.
From CompTIA's current website:
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“CompTIA A+, CompTIA Network+ or CompTIA Security+ certifications are now valid for three years from the date the candidate is certified.”
“The new certification renewal policy is applicable to all individuals who hold CompTIA A+, CompTIA Network+ or CompTIA Security+ certifications, regardless of the date they were certified.”
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http://www.comptia.org/certification...d/renewal.aspx
CompTIA is also demanding a $49 a year "maintenance fee." Something CompTIA promised they would never do.
Whether or not expiring certifications are good or bad, for cert holders is beside the point. Previous cert holders had an agreement with CompTIA, and it is not fair, and should not be legal, for CompTIA to arbitrarily break that agreements.
If CompTIA wants to change their agreement with subsequent exam takers, then that is a different matter. Comptia has no right to renege on agreements that they have already been made. A done deal is a done deal. If I pay to get a lifetime certification, then I expect to get a lifetime certification - period.
This may not affect the Linux+ yet. But who knows what kind of stunt CompTIA will pull in the future? Clearly CompTIA has no integrity.
Besides, why bother with CompTIA's over-priced, poorly regarded, certs, when their are better certs out there? You could take the RHCT, or the LPIC I, for the about the same price. And unlike with CompTIA, you can build on those entry-level certs - you can use those entry level certs to get the RHCE or LPIC II, or even RHCA or LPIC III. CompTIA's Linux+ gives you nowhere to go.
