Beyond20's training team, materials, and support staff are top notch! Classes are designed to make…read morematerial relatable, memorable, and fun. And, their exam pass guarantee demonstrates their investment in your success! Bonus: This team values inclusiveness. As an administrative professional in an IT service mgmt course, I was never made to feel as if I was out of my league. I was encouraged to challenge myself and stretch! David and Kyleigh, thank you for everything...I passed on my 1st attempt!!

I have taken several ITIL classes with Beyond20, the most recent being an ITIL Polestar Simulation…read more Simply stated, Beyond20 is by far the best training provider I have encountered. They match theory to practice and draw out the experience of other classroom participants to create a collaborative environment where students learn "beyond" what's in the text.

I love this school & very Knowledgeable staff with good Humor & Intelligentsia. Anything anytime I…read moreneed it them with any concerns they were there for me & help me way above and beyond. This school treat me like there own & help me to make sure I pass all exams on my own . They make sure we are we are all ready for everything before going through exam . I highly recommend them to everyone.

Best class I ever took. I took a class for CASP+ with Joseph…read moreand passed my exam. Loved how he teaches he has a way to explain that anyone can understand. Simply great !!!!!!!!!!!! The class rooms setting is great and the staff is also very very friendly and helpful.

I traveled from New York to Virginia to attend SecureNinja's week-long "Python Immersion" class. I…read morewas pretty excited about it. It had been a while since I'd had the opportunity to learn something new in a classroom setting. My excitement faded quickly. I guess I should have worried when I walked through the unlocked back door of the office building and was shown into a classroom without anyone asking my name or confirming my enrollment. I should have worried when there was only one other student in the class. I should have worried when SecureNinja's Director of Customer Success had a Colorado phone number. I should have worried when the class instructor, Joe McCray, who has the title of Secure Ninja's Chief Technology Officer, told me that he was staying in the same hotel as me. Then the class actually started, and by the end of the first day I had realized how bad this was going to be. The thing you need to know here is that you will not get immersed in Python in this class. Rather, you'll occasionally get splashed with Python from Joe's shallow pool of knowledge. This will mostly take the form of running other people's scripts to automate offensive and defensive security tasks. Joe didn't write most of the scripts, and sometimes doesn't really know what's in them. In my class, there was a lot of Googling to find answers to questions we asked. Class ended around four every day. In the meantime, Joe expected us to learn Python the way HE learned it - from YouTube. He assigned it for homework - ten YouTube videos a night. Not Joe's videos, mind you. Just a series of Python tutorials posted five years ago by some young coder named Bucky. There were no coursebooks. No hand-outs. No slide decks. There was just Joe, plowing through a bunch of text he'd put on PasteBin five years ago. Much of the text - the entire lesson on Regex, the entire lesson on Python classes - was pulled verbatim from other people's lessons or articles, with a few words changed here or there. I could take the text and plug it into Google to find the original source material. When asked about it, he said, yes, he'd "ported" text from other lessons, but you know, it's all Creative Commons so it's OK. Joe's stuff is old. He teaches Python 2, despite the fact that it's going to be deprecated in less than a year. Most of class material hasn't changed much in the last five years. All you have to do is look at his PasteBin to see how he's just been copying from class to class for years. The software you use in the class is old. We used a copy of Olly Debug that was from 2004. Sometimes links in the PasteBin pointed to sites that no longer resolved. On the second day of class, Joe laid out his philosophy on programming for us. Don't be a programmer. Don't get too involved in the syntax of any one language. All the interpreted languages are pretty much the same, anyway. Don't code more than an hour a day. Don't reinvent the wheel. Pretty much everything you're looking for has been done by someone else and you can find it via Google. Joe chats a lot. He likes to tell stories, especially about himself. He's personable. I can see why he manages to get speaking gigs at conference. He can work a room. He also does his personal business, like calling his bank to deal with fraudulent credit card charges, during class time. After a lot of emails back and forth between myself, my boss, and the SecureNinja Director of Customer Success, the class started to become less structured. This was both good and bad. Good because Joe was actually talking about stuff he knew, bad because it wasn't about Python. He started pulling material from his other PasteBin "classes." One morning was all about Web Application security testing. Basic SQLi & XSS stuff I learned ten years ago when I did my GSEC. We used SQLmap which is *written* in Python - does that count? On Friday Joe decided we were going to develop our own tools with Python. This was great except he had nothing prepared. So the day was just us trying to write our own scripts while Joe Googled stuff and read tutorials, trying to help but mostly working on his own on his laptop. At 1:45 pm he announced that class was over, because he had to get to the airport and fly to his next conference speaking gig. By the way, if you are considering paying SecureNinja $3,000 for one of Joe's classes, first be aware that all of his lessons are publicly available on PasteBin. Also, that he sells his classes online at his other organization, InfosecAddicts, for considerably less money. Not to mention the fact that he has recorded a bunch of his live classes and thrown them up on YouTube. But your $3,000 will get you lunch every day, and fancy smart whiteboards. So that's what SecureNinja is good for. Meanwhile, if you want to learn to write Python scripts, maybe do it the way Joe did? Watch YouTube.

My employer sent me here to take the Introduction Adobe Illustrator course and I enjoyed the class…read moreand teaching. I felt like everyone who works there is so kind. Barbara greeted me warmly and gave me a tour of their office space and kitchen. The kitchen was stocked with all kinds of beverages, snacks, and light bites. Perfect way to start the day, since the class lasts from 9-4pm. Our instructor Kate was kind, knowledgeable and approachable. I felt like I could ask questions when I fell behind. She was patient with others in the class as well. In this intro class we learned the basics, how to align objects and how to create shapes and images to design marketing collateral. We also got to keep the official Adobe Illustrator training workbook and received a certificate upon completion of the class. I recommend taking your computer and software training here.

I work in digital marketing for a large human rights organization and was looking for an intro to…read morePhotoshop class to help me in creating social media shareables. I researched a few places in DC and Softek offered the course at a reasonable price. Since the price tag was lower than others i looked at, I assumed it wouldn't be as great of quality, but I was wrong. The class was from 9AM-4PM and I learned more than the basics of Photoshop. The instructor was very knowledgeable and had a way to really connect with her students in explaining complex ideas. I highly recommend this place for Photoshop training! After just one class, I tested what I learned and made this social media shareable: http://on.fb.me/1rxsYEl. Thanks, Softek!

My husband is so glad he learned about this class before taking the VA Highway Heavy exam, because…read morehe feels there is no question that he wouldn't have passed the exam last week without Paco's help.  Their 100% first time pass guarantee made it well worth the money and time invested in the class. Thanks Paco...you're the greatest!

Do not hesitate to take Paco's classes. He knows what is he doing. I've taken several classes with…read morePaco. It is fun. It is true like Paco says "Knock that exam... out of the park! " Thanks Paco I will see you soon

I went to the class, 5/5 Thank you. I would 100% recommend…read morethis place. I just took my arrest authority class and it was worth it.

We hold ourselves to the highest standards at Aspis. Unfortunately, there will always be those who…read morehave something negative to say when they fail. We appreciate all the positive comments and support. We will continue to hold the highest standards in the industry and do our part in elevating our profession.

Future test takers be warned - as Kelsey G. mentions, all test taking centers are not created…read moreequal. I had a horrible experience at the L St location in DC, and it resulted in me scoring 100 points below what I ended up getting at the much nicer Bethesda location a few weeks later! This location is cramped, prison-like, hot, and the people who work here are extremely rude. Choosing this location is a huge mistake.

I didn't realize that the Pearson testing center would appear on Yelp, but since it's here I'll put…read morein a review. First, if you want a good idea of what your testing experience will be like, check out this video: https://youtu.be/1kK-QuuZeuw While this video wasn't taken at the DC center, it is very much the same layout, decor, computers, etc. The testing center is what you can expect it to be, a quiet and somewhat secluded space with a few workstations where you take your test. Security is tight, you will have to check-in at the lobby security guard, who will then direct you to the elevator that takes you to the Pearson suite. Once in the testing center, you will have your picture taken and your palm vein scanned. The palm vein gets scanned every time you enter and exit the testing room, including breaks. Be advised that if you do need to use the restroom during a break: the restrooms are located outside the testing center in the hallway. You will need to borrow a key from the front-desk in order to use it. While the restrooms are a short distance away, keep in mind that you do lose about a minute of your break just having to walk to and from the restroom. There are two employees at the test center, one at the front desk to check you in and one who is the "proctor": s/he is stationed outside the testing room and can monitor each test taker through a large glass window and video cameras. When I took my test the first time, I would agree with the other reviews that both test employees were very strict and followed the rules to the dotted i. They weren't nice and didn't smile at all. I felt that one step out of line would have had me kicked out of my test. But on my second visit, I encountered two different employees who were the opposite: they were both laid back and very friendly. They were still professional and certainly harped on the rules, but they didn't do it in a condescending sort of way. It was as if they understood that you were stressed out about your test, and they wanted to make you feel comfortable. So overall, I would say that your testing experience might vary based on the testing center employees you get and how their attitudes are. Pearson's primary competitor in computerized-testing is Prometric. I took a different test before at a Prometric center (not in the DC area though) and I can say that Pearson is a lot better. At the Prometric center, I had to wait 45 minutes(!) from my scheduled appointment time before I was even seated at a computer to begin my test. The Prometric center was setup completedly different from Pearson, with the center stuffed with I'd estimate 30-40 test takers sitting in a large cube farm (the Pearson center seats about 12 max, I recall). The Prometric center was definitely not run very well, which certainly added to my testing anxiety. I can therefore give Pearson credit for at least managing their test center much more professionally and sanely. At the end, I would give the Pearson testing center 4 stars. One star off simply for the restroom situation, and maybe for the inconsistency of the staff's attitudes. But, compared to the Prometric testing center I think Pearson is very good at keeping everything organized and professional. Just one less thing to worry about on test day.

Campus is super nice. Staff is alright. I don't feel like they try to get to know students.read more

Great staff, crappy parking. Great hours easy startup but the website is uselessread more