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| Jane Lee 2003-05-14, 11:25 pm |
| Hi,
Its good to hear all the enthusiasm in young people. I am working in
an organization for last 5-6 years. I never thought of computer
certification, as my company offers me large variety of job
responsibility and good experience on networking. But during last few
months we decided to go for certifications (specifically MCSE) as my
company having some difficulties during this IT down time. We thought
it would be piece of cake as we have good experience on Microsoft
products. I started by reading Microsoft Books and White Papers. To my
surprise job experience is help full but never fulfill all the
curriculum requirements. We never use dumps etc and after my
co-workers failed in one of certification we realize we will require
something else to prepare our self. I started looking on practice test
offered by various sites. To my surprise only few offer real knowledge
i.e. properly explaining all the correct and wrong answer with the
references so If I want to read in details, I can look into it. I
bought uCertify practice test after doing lots of research. Its
looking good but I can only tell more after I will see my result. My
test for 70-270 xp, is after 2 days. After this test I want to do
70-216 and 70-218 but still not decided which one I should take first.
dustin_dortch@hotmail.com (Dustin) wrote in message news:<cb780ff1.0305141053.5fca7e52@posting.google.com>...
> Honestly, you will eventually see that a degree is something you will
> want. Do not wait until it is to the point where you are stuck
> without one. That is where I am right now. I put off getting a
> degree for 4 years. Now, I have hit a plateau, and the market sucks,
> having a degree would have made me the cream of the crop where I live.
> I am working on it now, and by the time I am done, it probably won't
> matter. Who knows. Start working on the degree now. You can still
> do certifications, it isn't that hard. I like the idea of getting an
> underpaid IT job to get some experience too. Find one that will help
> pay for you to go to school. Do not worry about the CISSP until you
> have a least 5 years experience anyways, as that is a factor in
> getting that certification. They do not just give you an exam... you
> have to have proven security experience, a few OS/networking certs
> under your belt, and their approval. But, I cannot emphasize this
> enough, _GET_A_DEGREE_! I wish I would have done it when I had a
> chance. Now I am busting my butt, working full-time, going to school
> full-time, and being in the Navy part-time to help pay for it. Even
> if it isn't for superficial reasons, you will probably get to a point
> where you look back on your life, and you will wish you get a degree
> just to say you did it.
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> Dustin
> Network+, MCSA/MCSE W2K
> dustin_dortch@hotmail.com
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| Bossman 2003-05-15, 12:24 am |
| Hey mad props to Dustint thats just the type of thing I needed to hear thanks
for taking the time man.
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