Cody Davis serves as Program Director for the certification courses on this site, where he is responsible for curriculum structure, course sequencing, and making sure learners actually get what they came for — a clear, practical path to certification. With several IT certifications under his belt and years of experience in IT education, Cody understands both the technical content and the human side of learning: what clicks, what doesn't, and how to design a course that respects your time and gets you to the finish line. Outside of work, Cody is a father of three, which means his project management skills get a serious workout on weekends. He's also an avid collector of GI Joe figures — a hobby that, depending on who you ask, is either a legitimate passion for American pop culture history or a very elaborate reason to never clean out the garage. His kids remain undecided on the matter.
September 16, 2025 · Cybersecurity Certifications, Exam News and Releases
The SC-200, Microsoft Security Operations Analyst, has been around for a few years now but it has gotten better with…
April 22, 2025 · Networking and Infrastructure
I finished my CCNP Enterprise last month after about fourteen months of studying alongside a full-time job and I want…
February 18, 2025 · AI and Emerging Tech, Exam News and Releases, Industry News
The AI certification market added some significant new entrants this year and I have been working my way through the…
October 1, 2024 · Exam News and Releases
Datadog has been expanding their certification program and the Fundamentals credential is their entry-level offering. I sat for it last…
May 14, 2024 · Exam News and Releases, Industry News
GitHub launched their Actions certification as part of their broader GitHub certification program and the early interest has been significant…
February 20, 2024 · Exam News and Releases, Industry News
CompTIA announced an update to the Linux+ certification and honestly this refresh has been needed for a while. The previous…
November 14, 2023 · Exam News and Releases
Splunk updated their Core Certified User certification earlier this year and since Splunk keeps showing up in security operations and…
September 5, 2023 · Cybersecurity Certifications, Exam News and Releases
Google launched a Cybersecurity Certificate through Coursera this year and I spent most of a weekend going through the content…
January 30, 2023 · AI and Emerging Tech, Exam News and Releases
I passed the AI-900 a couple weeks ago and I want to give you the honest version of what it…
October 25, 2022 · Cybersecurity Certifications, Exam News and Releases
CompTIA updated the PenTest+ certification this year with a new version and the changes are significant enough that it is…
May 3, 2022 · Networking and Infrastructure
This question shows up constantly from people who are getting into containers and trying to figure out where to invest…
January 11, 2022 · Cloud Certifications, Exam News and Releases
AWS updated the Cloud Practitioner exam with a new version and it is worth talking about because I think this…
November 8, 2021 · Exam News and Releases
I failed an exam earlier this year. I am writing about it because I think the failure was more educational…
March 2, 2021 · Exam News and Releases, Industry News
HashiCorp announced their Terraform Associate certification and I registered for it within a week. Not because I had fully thought…
November 17, 2020 · Exam News and Releases
People ask me fairly often what my home lab setup looks like and I have been putting off writing about…
February 25, 2020 · Exam News and Releases, Industry News
Cisco launched their DevNet certification track at the beginning of this year and I have been poking around in the…
October 28, 2019 · Exam News and Releases
I have been spending my evenings lately breaking things in Kubernetes and I want to tell you about it because…
February 14, 2019 · Exam News and Releases, Industry News
CompTIA dropped a new version of the A+ this year and if you are currently studying for it you need…
October 3, 2018 · Exam News and Releases
Between jobs earlier this year I had a lot of time to study, and I went a little overboard testing…
February 8, 2018 · Cloud Certifications, Exam News and Releases
Okay so I spent most of last weekend going down a rabbit hole on the Google Cloud Professional Cloud Architect…