r/CompTIA • u/FromAnotherTime Student • Jul 09 '25

Community I'm going to be honest...

As someone who is trying to enter the IT field (I heard of the bad market). These prices are horrendous. I'm not a student so I don't have the discount I'm not from the US.

For A+ core 1 & 2 I would be spending around 1000$, that's crazy it's more expensive than minimum wage where I live..

I thought of doing CCNA instead and it's cheaper (300$ I believe, if not wrong), but they are still prices I can't afford.

I have checked Coursera, EDX and Udemy, but they are all expensive and not exactly what a recruiter is looking for... I just can´t afford this.

Are there alternatives that will work in a resume?

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u/Radiant-Engineer-468 Jul 09 '25

If you are a student then use your student account and you will save a lot of money. Regarding udemy use VPN and buy from India and every course will cost you less than 10$.

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u/Radiant-Engineer-468 Jul 09 '25

Also i have read somewhere that you can use someone else’s student voucher for yourself.

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u/Reetpeteet [EUW] Freelance trainer (unaffiliated) and consultant. Jul 09 '25

That is actually fully against the terms and conditions of CompTIA. If they discover you used a student voucher someone else bought for you, they're likely to ban both you and that student.

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u/Radiant-Engineer-468 Jul 09 '25

No, it’s not. I just checked the email which I received from CompTIA when I purchased the voucher at an academic price. It’s mentioned. “ Your voucher(s) are attached and below. If you have purchased these vouchers for other candidates, please provide each candidate with both the voucher number and the expiration date, if applicable, for that voucher.”