ITSG Study Guides
Straightforward CompTIA guides, Linux practice, and Claude prep built to help you study faster and stop guessing what to do next.
Start with A+. Add Network+ if you need fundamentals, or Security+ if you’re aiming at security roles.
Going into cybersecurity?Security+ helps you get past HR filters. Pair it with labs and enough networking to explain what broke.
Need Linux reps?Do Shell Samurai before cloud, DevOps, or security tooling makes you learn the terminal the hard way.
Certification guides
Use these to get unstuck, stay organized, and study without turning cert prep into a second job.
Best for: Career changers, new techs, and anyone who wants one clear path through A+ instead of a pile of random resources.
Covers 220-1101 and 220-1102 with structured notes, plain-English explanations, and a clear study path.
Best for: IT support folks moving toward SOC, junior security, government contractor, or security-adjacent roles.
Cuts through the Security+ acronym soup and keeps you focused on what the SY0-701 exam actually tests.
Best for: Anyone who needs networking fundamentals before security, cloud, sysadmin work, or another subnetting panic spiral.
Networking feels boring until it’s the reason you can’t troubleshoot anything. This guide gives you the path without the forum rabbit holes.
Best for: IT pros who want cloud infrastructure fundamentals before going all-in on AWS, Azure, or whatever cert their boss just discovered.
Cloud+ isn’t the flashiest cert, but it teaches the infrastructure concepts you actually use around servers, storage, networking, and ops.
Practical skills
Not every useful career move is another cert. Sometimes the money is in getting better at the terminal or learning how to use AI tools at work.
Best for: Windows admins, help desk techs, homelab nerds, and future DevOps folks who know their terminal skills need work.
Practice Linux command-line basics in the browser instead of reading another dry command reference you’ll forget by Thursday.
Best for: Builders and IT pros who want to use Claude for actual work instead of collecting prompt-engineering fluff.
A focused prep path for Claude architecture concepts, tool use, workflows, and the stuff you need to build with it for real.
If you are still choosing between certs, start with the free ITSG certification hub.
💼 Look at the job marketUse the job board to sanity-check which skills employers actually ask for.
🥷 Need practical skills?Start with Shell Samurai if Linux is the thing making cloud, DevOps, or security feel harder than it should.