10/23/2002 -- Tancy Stanbery, certification program manager for the Computing Technology Industry Association (CompTIA), told CertCities.com yesterday that the company is evaluating its Network+ exam for adaptive format.

CompTIA had stated on its Web site that the adaptive version of the Network+ exam would be released in December, but then it quickly pulled that information from the Web site. Stanbery said that the decision to make Network+ adaptive is still under consideration. "It's a time consuming processes [to take an exam adaptive]," she explained. "We're not sure yet if we want to commit to that."

The adaptive format is a testing method in which the number of questions that appear on an exam is determined by a tester's answers during the exam, with right answers given more weight than wrong answers in the final test score. CompTIA is one of a handful of certification providers who use adaptive testing for some exams in order to limit question exposure.

CompTIA also pulled information that stated that it would release new A+ and Network+ objectives in January.

Stanbery told CertCities.com that the Network+ objective information is false -- there is no objectives changed scheduled for that exam.

She said that a revision of the A+ objectives is currently being evaluated, but a final decision won't be made until later this year. She said that, if needed, new objectives would be released in the February 2003 time frame, with the exam to follow approximately six months later.

A CompTIA spokesperson blamed the misinformation on the launch of its newly redesigned Web site and said that the section would reappear shortly with corrected information.

CompTIA's Web site can be found at http://www.comptia.org.