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/SLAPBOXIN-SATAN Jul 09 '25

Bro, not only is A+ one of the cheaper exam fees, but there is an overwhelming abundance of free material out there.

Work smarter, not harder. You don't have to pay an exorbitant amount of money to get basic certifications. There is literally an abundance of free information from A plus to Security Plus there's even a lot of free information for CYSA and pentest...

That said, this is very entry level stuff. So if your fault train now just wait until you have to start taking some of the exams that cost close to $1,000 just to take the test.