• Certifications

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    scottalanmillerS

    @ryanblahnik said:

    If a lot of these seem to have more value from the material studied than from the cert itself, are there any others that stand out as covering important ground?

    I found the process of getting my certs to be incredibly valuable. Probably on par with any of my top learning for my career. It was the late 1990s and I did every CompTIA exam at the time and the hardest, longest Microsoft track and a huge number of Brainbench certs all over just like two or three years. I never once attended a class, I bought loads of books, got an ancient Pentium server (yes the original 586 single proc box!) and about five old desktops mostly 486, one Pentium and two PPros and built everything from scratch and did every lab and tested every configuration. No virtualization back then. And MS trials were 90 days, not 180. And an NT4 install could take two days!! And 33Kb/s dial up Internet access at best.

    Reading the books, cover to cover, doing every example as I went forced me to learn the material including the concepts. Doing the actual certs forced me to not skip over details that seemed unimportant. It made me work to completeness and many of the concepts that I would have ignored when I was young turned out to be very important and the people writing the books had a good idea of what I needed to know 🙂

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    jospoortvlietJ

    I think it is time to start sending sweaters to hell. They'll need it!

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    scottalanmillerS

    @Minion-Queen said:

    @scottalanmiller said:

    @Minion-Queen said:

    I think we are going to do a good panel discussion. Allow people to ask anything they want but that is about as close to a "general" session as you really can get.

    Like my big open room session at SpiceWorld 2013.

    Yes! But everyone complained that it wasn't enough time.

    Yes, it was way too short for what it was. Because it was lots of different topics rather than just one it could easily have gone longer than the standard time slot.

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    That's awesome that there is more variety and ability to focus more. I agree, DC would be the best in general, Cloud probably the second most general. Network and Desktop seem far more focused and likely to be used in less general career options.

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    StrongBadS

    I have not seen anything in as high of demand as Linux has been the last several years. Other things get more attention in the news because they are newer, flashier or more interesting to the public, but in the business space it seems that Linux is remaining the big ticket item.

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    Bill KindleB

    @StrongBad said:

    That's not good. Bait and switch is a good way to burn your bridges.

    RIght, it's only a 60 day trial too. So, not really free if you ask me. When I receive the sales call I will let you know.

  • Microsoft Certs Getting Harder

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    @Bill-Kindle said:

    By harder I hope they mean that it will be harder to boot camp these tests.

    The description makes it sound that way, at least.

  • How hard is net+?

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    scottalanmillerS

    @wowitsdave said:

    I took the 2009 objectives- probably much later than you two. 😉

    More than a decade later. If you took it is 2009 it must have been updated for Windows 98 since the 1998 objectives were Windows 3.1.