The hard part of a certification isn’t the material — it’s finishing. So that is what this is designed around: 7 tracks broken into sections you can actually complete, ranks that mark where you really are, and a résumé that builds itself from the modules you finish rather than from what you claim. Every module maps to a published certification objective — and the ones we don’t cover are published too.
Three minutes. It tells you which track matches how you already work — free, no account.
Take the assessment → Read a full module first →FHG Compass is a guided path built for students — start there instead.
Explore FHG Compass →A certification is rented. It expires, it gets superseded, and the body that issued it decides when — not you. There is a credential on our own map that retires in February 2027 and there is nothing anybody can do about that except know it in advance.
What you own is the evidence. The labs you ran. The modules you finished. The diagnostic log you wrote working four faults at once on an inherited network. That is permanent, it is portable, and no vendor can switch it off.
Which is why this platform works the way it does. Your résumé compiles itself from what you finished rather than from what you claim. The starter lab produces something you keep whether or not you ever pay us. Career Navigation names which requirements you have evidence for and which you do not, because a percentage is not evidence. And the certification map tells you which credentials expire and when — a rented thing has an expiry date, and the person paying for it should be the first to know.
It is also why every tool here is free. Six modules and the whole toolset, no card. The tools produce your evidence. Holding those back to sell a subscription would contradict the entire idea, so we do not.
The gap between finishing a course and getting hired is where people actually fall out — and it is the part of this platform you cannot buy more hours of video to fix. These are included at every tier, including the free one.
Reads real, current openings and matches them against what you have actually completed — plus any résumé you have added and the work history you told us about.
Not a percentage. It names which requirements you have evidence for and which you do not, so you know whether to apply today or finish two more modules first.
Paste a résumé. It reports what a parser actually recovers from it, and where your own contribution is left unclear — with no score you cannot trace back to a specific line.
It does not score your résumé for fit with a specific job posting. Reading a posting against your own history is a skill the curriculum teaches you to do yourself, because that is the part that transfers to every application.
Nothing you paste is stored. That résumé is yours.
Questions built from the modules and labs you finished and the experience you actually have — so you rehearse your own evidence rather than generic answers.
The lab questions come from the rubric rather than the title. “Why does session revocation come before the password reset” cannot be answered by somebody who did not think about it.
Built from completed modules and labs actually run. There is no gap between what it claims and what you can do, because it cannot claim anything you did not finish.
That gap is the most expensive thing anybody carries into an interview.
What none of this does is get you hired. It surfaces the evidence you already have and names the gaps you do not. No placement rate, no salary figure and no timeline appears anywhere on this site — our build fails if somebody tries to add one.
Every figure here is derived from the curriculum at build time. If one of them were wrong, the build would fail before the page shipped.
What we can actually back
Most training pages open with what they promise. Ours opens with the limits, because those are the part you cannot check after you have paid.
FHG issues no credential of its own. The tracks prepare you toward certifications that CompTIA, Microsoft, AWS, Cisco, CNCF and PeopleCert administer — and the exam fees are theirs, not ours, and are stated before you start.
No placement rate, no salary figure, no timeline. What the platform produces is evidence: a résumé built from modules you actually finished, with real done-and-total counts rather than claims.
Seven tracks. Every count on this page is read from the curriculum file, and a guard fails the deploy if the page and the data ever disagree. Nobody here can quietly round up.
Each module maps to a published certification objective, verified against that vendor’s own current exam guide — and the objectives we do not cover are published too. A claim we cannot support fails the build rather than reaching you.
The starter lab is free and produces an artifact you keep whether or not you subscribe — a written procedure for work you already do. It is completable at zero cost, with no vendor trial that expires into a bill. The rest are drawn from real engagements and open with a subscription.
$25 a month, no minimum term, full refund within seven days, and cancellation from your own account settings without a conversation. Your progress is kept if you come back.
Nothing above is a testimonial, because we have none and will not write any. Every line is something you can verify before you spend anything.
Modules written from real client deployments — the same playbooks our consulting practice bills for.
The seven tracks →XP, ranks, and badges earned only from real completion — a record of what you actually did.
The rank ladder →A resume compiled from verified completion, mapped to real, market-checked job titles and certs.
Career outcomes →ATS Check and Interview Prep built from your own record — never a claim you didn't earn.
Start today →One of them was teaching AI security before Microsoft made it an exam domain. Copilot risk, agentic AI governance and AI red-teaming have been in the Identity track since it was written — Microsoft’s first security exam to formally test any of it was released in May 2026.
Not hypothetical curriculum — 154 modules written from real client deployments, mapped to real certifications and the skills the roles actually ask for, sequenced with a clear finish line.
And the order matters more than people are told. Entry-level security hiring is hard right now — many organizations that report a shortage made no junior security hires at all last year. The route that works is support first, then the specialist track: help desk and service management, then endpoints or infrastructure, then security. Every track below names the roles it actually leads toward, in that order.
ITIL 4 service management and the audit methodology behind FHG's own MSP practice. Leads toward: Help Desk Analyst, IT Support Specialist — the most common first IT job there is.
Intune, Autopilot, Windows 365, Entra device identity, endpoint security and Intune automation — setup to governance. Leads toward: Desktop Support Technician, Desktop Support Analyst.
Routing, switching, VLANs, spanning tree, OSPF and wireless — the networking depth the other tracks assume you already have. Leads toward: Network Technician, NOC Analyst, Junior Network Engineer.
Two clouds, not one. Core administration taught on Azure, then the same concepts on AWS — plus VMware exit strategy, hybrid cloud, Kubernetes storage & networking, IaC and SRE fundamentals. Every cloud module names its counterpart on the other platform, because employers hire for the idea, not the console. Leads toward: Junior Systems Administrator, NOC Technician, Data Center Technician.
Zero Trust, Copilot readiness, agentic AI governance, threat hunting, cloud/container security and AI red-teaming. Leads toward: SOC Analyst, Security Operations Analyst — the cleared-work track.
Power Automate, PowerShell, Bash/Python, Terraform, CI/CD and Linux administration — first workflow to full pipeline. Leads toward: Automation Engineer I, RPA Engineer.
The part nobody teaches. How an applicant tracking system actually works and what makes you invisible to it, writing bullets that show evidence instead of duties, claiming a certification you are still studying for in language that survives a background check, reading which requirements in a posting are real, and answering the four questions that decide more outcomes than every technical question combined. Leads toward: the interview you have been getting screened out of.
New to all of this? These tracks assume you know roughly where you are heading. If you do not yet — if certification names still sound like an alphabet — FHG Compass is the same curriculum from the beginning, and it bridges into these tracks when you are ready.
Ranks exist to answer the question every self-taught learner gets stuck on: am I actually ready to apply yet? Each one unlocks at a real completion threshold, so progress is measured against the platform rather than against a percentage bar.
Three things are measured here and they are not the same thing. Your rank tracks how much of the platform you have worked through, across every track. Your percentage in a single track is what decides which job titles Career Navigation shows you — entry titles at a quarter, senior ones at three quarters, because a help desk role genuinely does not require a finished track and a senior one does. And a certification’s tier — foundational, core, specialist, advanced — is the industry’s own ladder, not ours.
They will not line up, and that is correct. You can be well through the platform and early in a track you only just started.
Every certification we prepare you for — and every one we do not — is published in full.
Read one before you decide. One complete module is published in full — no account, no email, no card. Every section, the hands-on lab, and the takeaways, exactly as a subscriber reads it.
Under every major cert-prep platform's standard tier — roughly half of ITPro Premium ($59) and Pluralsight Core Tech ($45), with team seats on those platforms running into the hundreds per person per month. Everything is included; there is no upgrade tier holding the good material back.
Inverted from the usual order on purpose. Most training starts with the doing and hopes an identity follows. It rarely does — which is why so many people finish a course and still don’t call themselves the thing.
Not a University track — a separate, cohort-based program built on the identity-and-operating-system work behind how FHG itself runs. One-time enrollment, structured modules, a dedicated community. Start here if you're building the system that runs your business, not just the skills that run your job.
BE-DO-HAVE, inverted from the usual order: decide who you're becoming first, and the actions and results follow from that rather than the other way round. It's the operating system behind how FHG itself runs — written down, in full, so you can run it too.
Why this existsWorkforce boards, community colleges, veteran service organizations and classrooms license FHG University by seat — with the roster management and progress reporting a funder actually asks for.
At 500+ seats. Teams start at 5 seats, $240 per seat per year — by card, no purchase order.
Community contribution at 250, 500 and 1,000 seats — to a program, scholarship fund or cause of your choosing.
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“We don't sell hours. We deliver outcomes.”— The FHG Standard