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    • NetworkNerdN

      Learning from Failure and the Third Try VCP-DCV 6 Delta

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    • scottalanmillerS

      Is the CompTIA Server+ Useful for You? SAMIT Video

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    • scottalanmillerS

      Advance Your Career with the CompTIA Security+ Certification SAMIT Video

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    • scottalanmillerS

      Start Your IT Career with the CompTIA Network+ Certification SAMIT Video

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    • scottalanmillerS

      Certifications for IT SAMIT Video

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      @biglittle said in Certifications for IT SAMIT Video:

      I found this very interesting, since I'm switching to IT from education I always saw certifications as state mandated in order to even be considered for a position.

      Oh yes, in many cases if you want a government IT job you will require certs. In fact, you'll be required to have certs from other industries. That's the degree to which government IT isn't considered professional. Government IT often pays a fraction of the industry and is not taken seriously. In NY state, for example, top level IT technical positions are often below entry level in pay. So below the professional scale.

      So if your goal is "government IT" which is sort of its own thing, you'll need certs from non-IT to even be allowed to be hired. But it's often considered on the fringe or outside of "real" IT.

      Keep in mind that while we often use IT Professional, as a term, IT are not professionals. Actual "professional" guidelines are actually considered insulting in IT. The idea that IT could be certified or that university education would be meaningful, the very tenants of professional work, are insulting in IT where things are performance based, not government pseudo-union based. A better term to use, at least in your head, is IT Practitioner, not professional. IT does not function if held to the standards of normal "professions". The education or certification needed for those fields are far too low to be useful in IT. The breadth of knowledge and continuous education needed for IT success are much higher than many other fields. This is why it is not considered polite or appropriate to compare IT Practitioners to something like doctors. The bar for being a successful doctor is embarrassingly low for IT, for example.

    • scottalanmillerS

      Is the CompTIA A+ Certification Right for IT? SAMIT Video

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      @sully93 I have a video from MangoCon 2016 where instead of talking about "what isn't IT" I talk about what it is. I have a recent SAMIT video on separating IT from SE. I'll do one soon on separating IT from Bench.

    • scottalanmillerS

      Understanding the Microsoft MTA Certifications SAMIT Video

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      @black3dynamite said in Understanding the Microsoft MTA Certifications SAMIT Video:

      @scottalanmiller said in Understanding the Microsoft MTA Certifications SAMIT Video:

      @black3dynamite said in Understanding the Microsoft MTA Certifications SAMIT Video:

      @scottalanmiller said in Understanding the Microsoft MTA Certifications SAMIT Video:

      @black3dynamite said in Understanding the Microsoft MTA Certifications SAMIT Video:

      Where I work at, we are a test center and our students or instructors can go for certifications like MTA, MOS, and MCE.

      So you are a secretarial training center? What do you do? MOS is for secretaries and receptionists. MCE is for teachers. MTA is for pre-topical students.

      No, I am the IT Support Specialist (damn those long titles) for the school that is also a Certiport test center too.

      I got that YOU are in IT. 🙂 I'm just wondering what they do that offers those non-IT certs. It makes sense that all of those exist, they all have a solid place and reason. Just not IT reasons. Or in the case of MTA, not professional IT reasons.

      We do provide IT students with TestOut.
      http://www.testout.com/Certification/Pro-Exams/Catalog

      Never heard of that one.

    • StrongBadS

      UDemy Ethical Hacking Course Black Friday Sale $14

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      Thank you, just bought it. Will give feedback once I get into it.

    • mlnewsM

      Network+ N10-006 Video Training by Prof. Messer - VPN Protocols

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      I think that he skips mentioning that PPP, the Point to Point Protocol is not a VPN protocol. Even in the 1990s it was not considered that as it is not virtually private, as a VPN is. It's useful to have mentioned here and the Network+ might require it and it is certainly good to know and understand, but he lists it along with VPN protocols and I didn't hear him ever point out that it isn't a VPN Protocol even though it was the first one mentioned in the VPN Protocol list.

    • mlnewsM

      Network+ N10-006 Video Training by Prof. Messer - VPN Connectors

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    • mlnewsM

      Network+ N10-006 Video Training by Prof. Messer - VPN Concentrators

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    • mlnewsM

      Network+ N10-006 Video Training by Prof. Messer - Packet Shapers

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    • mlnewsM

      Network+ N10-006 Video Training by Prof. Messer - Load Balancers

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    • scottalanmillerS

      Resources for the Network+

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      @john11smith said in Resources for the Network+:

      Struggled understanding some questions because the wording of the exam like nothing I used to see.

      CompTIA is not known for their clarity.

    • scottalanmillerS

      Logical IT Certification Progression

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      @IRJ said in Logical IT Certification Progression:

      @Dashrender said in Logical IT Certification Progression:

      @scottalanmiller said in Logical IT Certification Progression:

      @Dashrender said in Logical IT Certification Progression:

      @guyinpv said in Logical IT Certification Progression:

      al details. I don't regret buying or reading through any of them. Books on Windows, DOS, printers, networks, repair and troubleshooting techniques, system design and building, etc etc. All of that is good.

      Answer questions posed at an interview.

      Besides, bench techs don't think, according to @scottalanmiller, they work by script - aka, reading a script and doing what it says. Once you have to start making decisions, you're no longer a bench tech, you're in IT.

      Not quite, but that's closer. Bench is about tech, about consumer gear or business stuff that falls into consumer spaces. IT is "Business Information Infrastructure."

      Lots of bench people make decisions. Like if you are building a white box desktop for a gamer, the bench guy will likely make several decisions from CPU to GPU to RAM to case and power supply. It's not a script, but it is not BII, either.

      hey - you're making it grey again 😛

      There isn't nearly as many strictly hardware people anymore these days.

      Not nearly, most are in datacenters now.

    • mlnewsM

      Network+ N10-006 Video Training by Prof. Messer - Content Filters

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    • mlnewsM

      Microsoft 74-409 Virtualization Study Guide from Veeam

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      Looks great !!

      Thanks for the doc.

    • AmbarishrhA

      Certifications for 2016

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    • antonitA

      AWS Certifications

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      @antonit said:

      I am referring to the following:

      AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate
      AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Professional
      AWS Certified Developer - Associate
      AWS Certified SysOps Administrator - Associate
      AWS Certified DevOps Engineer - Professional

      Which one of these would fit the bill better for my career?

      Solutions Architect is not what you have done in the past and not where you are looking at being currently. So those are more for a change in career direction more than anything.

      The Developer is not at all what you do, so that is out.

      DevOps, likewise, would be a major career change. Not a bad one, but it's a very different role and would be a long term transition.

      SysOps Admin would be the logical starting point as it leverages where you have been and where you have been thinking of going.

      For all of them, Associate is the starting point, you would do that before considering the Professional level.

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