Archive for September 16th, 2009

Joke of the Day: CompTIA Database Outage

Posted in Technology on 09/16/2009 01:41 pm by Daniel Hagan

I passed my CompTIA Security+ certification on July 24th. For those of you not familiar with CompTIA, they offer certifications in a number of IT related subjects – Server+, Network+, Security+, etc. When you pass a certification, the testing center prints out a confirmation page for you to take home. Five days later, you can login to the CompTIA website and request your official certification letter with the fancy seal.

At least, you could before CompTIA’s database crashed. They’re apparently going to be down through the end of the month. That’s a pretty solid two months after I took my test. It’s also a complete joke! CompTIA should be embarrassed to so publicly lose access to their data like this. The company that certifies your IT people on how to manage systems apparently couldn’t be bothered to do it right in-house.

I emailed CompTIA’s press contacts for their input on this story, but got no response other than to confirm the phone number listed on their outage page.

Good job, CompTIA.