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CTS — Audiovisual & IT Systems
The AVIXA Certified Technology Specialist Body of Knowledge, 20 Chapters, 16 Weeks
A structured, 16-week course through everything an AV/IT technician needs to know — signals, audio, video, networks, control systems, site survey, AV project design, integration, operations, and troubleshooting. Built around AVIXA’s official CTS body of knowledge (Chapters 3–22) and organized the same way the certification’s own practice exams are grouped.
Why this course exists: the U.S. District Court, District of New Jersey (Newark) is hiring an
Audiovisual/Information Technology Technician — CL 26/27, $64,075–$114,425. The posting lists Crestron, Extron, Biamp, networking fundamentals (TCP/IP, VLANs, switches), and
“A CTS certification is highly desirable” by name. This course maps directly onto that posting’s required and preferred skills.
A note on sourcing: the week-by-week numbering below ("AVIXA Ch. 3–22") follows a popular third-party CTS practice-exam course’s chapter breakdown, used here as a study scaffold. AVIXA’s own current official CTS exam (per its Candidate Handbook) is organized into four weighted domains instead — A: Creating AV Solutions (35%), B: Implementing AV Solutions (30%), C: Supporting AV System Operation (15%), D: Servicing AV Solutions (20%). The underlying technical material below covers the same ground either way, but before exam day, cross-check against AVIXA’s official
CTS Candidate Handbook, since that’s the authoritative source.
SignalsAudio/VideoNetworks
ControlSite SurveyDesign
IntegrationOperationsTroubleshooting