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| Bingram 2003-11-11, 11:58 pm |
| Anyone have experiences with Techskills?
I was planning to attend some training at a local branch. As part of my introduction, I was shown some student test preperation material. In only five minutes of browsing it was apparent that the material was either old Troytech stuff or braindumps.
For training, I was given a Syngress book, and nothing else, and told that's all I'll need. My instructor informed me the sylabus for Security + was still in development (after a year?).
Talking with the staff, I discovered there were no MCSEs on staff with current (win 2K or 2k3) certifications. Furthermore, while all had CCNAs, only half of the staff was current in that cert!
After mulling things over, I turned down the training. But I wonder if this is just a bad branch, or are all the locations run the same way? | |
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| ummmm - I think you will find a lot of places like that unfortunately.
One place I visited, the senior tutor was MCSE NT4 and none of the others had anything besides A+ and Net+.
On the other side of the coin, where I trained there is a tech who is MCSE NT4 and W2K - most of the Comptia certs, CCNA, CCNP, Citrix and RedHat certified. A great guy to chew the fat with and to absorb invaluable knowledge from. | |
| curiousgeorge 2003-11-12, 5:01 am |
| That is the norm at all TechSkills locations. But then again, many training companies are like that now. They give you a book and braindump material.
The most important question to ask training centers is: does the instructor have real world experience with W2K. If they say yes, ask who they worked for and what they did.
If the answer is they "did consulting work", it's a lie.
My suggestion is buy a book and buy CD's from CBT nuggets.
CBT nuggets | |
| jimbo2002 2003-11-12, 2:25 pm |
| The security+ covers a broad spectrum of subjects, I honestly don't think one book will cover it, but then maybe some bright spark has put a mega book together that covers the lot, but I doubt it. Maybe better to buy your own books (ones with good reviews) and use some of the cert study sites. | |
| Win2K3Guy 2003-11-21, 1:02 am |
| Tech schools are a rip off. There is an abundance of material on the internet to learn from. Many books too! You can buy alot of books and videos for the price of one class! |
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