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Welp, time to bite the bullet. Scheduled CICD 210-060 test a few weeks out. Been working with CUCM at work for over a year, been labbing things at home for a while now. Already watched through the CBT nuggets course on it, which was mostly review for me. It was a bit annoying when he'd stop when he was about to start configuring things like route patterns and go 'ah ah ah, not for this test'. Anyone here that's taken it have any pointers? I'm confident in my experience, not so much in rote memorization like which sub-sub-sub-sub menu some feature is in that I've never used, but know what it's about.
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passed ICND2 v2 with a 867 / 1000 today. I'm relieved because I dont have to buy or restudy v3 material. Going to update my resume and consider my options on next cert ... tomorrow.
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mythicknight posted:Welp, time to bite the bullet. Scheduled CICD 210-060 test a few weeks out. Well I took the voice and video with very little real world experience and managed to pass (several months study though) last year. I'm sure the CCNA collaboration isn't much different just with updated tech and trivia. I have heard the ccnp collaboration tests have some serious problems with diagrams you can't read and questions asking for a certain number of correct answers but with more correct choices than there should be. Expect some bullshit like that. Also there is bound to be some unfair questions on tech you'll never see like the full room telepresence setups or exotic uccx scripting that shouldn't be on an entry level test.
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Sep 24, 2016 23:19
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Bigass Moth posted:Also there is bound to be some unfair questions on tech you'll never see like the full room telepresence setups or exotic uccx scripting that shouldn't be on an entry level test. Full room telepresence exists and is amazing. But you're right, it's rare outside of Cisco campuses and C level exec offices
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skipdogg posted:Echoing this sentiment. I've been managing Enterprise Windows environments for more than a decade and I can't pass those tests without studying. Real World experience helps, but won't get you past the tests on its own. Nthing all this. As an MS admin all of this is true. I did nothing but lab the 70-417 requirements for something like 3-4 months before I scheduled the test, and was stunned that I passed it. Although if you're a prospective MCSA, a possible alternate route - get the 2k8 MCSA. Yes, it's basically obsolete, but when I got my 2012 MCSA, 2k3 was just being phased out as the de facto standard in a bunch of large companies. These are probably the same companies that put off the Win 7 upgrade until the very last second, but it never hurts. After you get your 2k8, upgrade to 2k12 with the 70-417. That way when the 2016 MCSA comes out, you can transition to that with just the one exam. Five exams gives you three MCSA certs, which looks GREAT on a resume. Plus you learn enough so that if you're trying to YotJ, you have more than enough fresh technical knowledge to ace a tech interview just from studying up for the exams. MJP fucked around with this message at 14:54 on Sep 26, 2016 |
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Sep 26, 2016 14:52
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Awesome, thanks for the advice. Might need to go with GiP for this, but anyone used the post 9/11 for cert training? How does that even work? Is there a dollar limit, does it affect my months balance differently? I have my bachelors and have about 11 months of benefits left.
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Fudge posted:Awesome, thanks for the advice. The last I looked it's a really inefficient way to use your benefits, but since you,already have a bachelor's...have at it unless you want a Master's bro. Before that, check out http://vets.syr.edu/education/employment-programs/ IIRC you have a year to skillport your brains out, but they pay for your vouchers. Edit: if anyone is interested in this some of my co-workers have done this, I can get you a mileage report...that is, if anyone cares 
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Marshall Louis posted:The last I looked it's a really inefficient way to use your benefits, but since you,already have a bachelor's...have at it unless you want a Master's bro. Holy poo poo! No one told me about this in ACAP. loving good looking out man!
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Sep 26, 2016 15:16
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Fudge posted:Holy poo poo! No one told me about this in ACAP. loving good looking out man! Read the fine print, you have a year, and they make you take low level poo poo in order if you don't already have it. At least, when someone told me about this last year those were the terms.
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Fudge posted:Awesome, thanks for the advice. GiP has like 4 threads devoted to this topic, as well as a guy who was a VA benefits manager. I'd recommend going there.
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Bigass Moth posted:Well I took the voice and video with very little real world experience and managed to pass (several months study though) last year. I'm sure the CCNA collaboration isn't much different just with updated tech and trivia. Thanks, I feel a bit better now. Will watch out for gotchas. IX series looks amazing, but even our c-level said gently caress it and went with a dual screen MX. And I actually have a single screen MX800 here I can play with, which will help once I get that far. Just hoping the na-level doesn't try to go too far with it if at all. I have just enough experience with UCCX to know I don't want to use it at all ever 
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I have done no exam today and I just got an e-mail from Microsoft to congratulate me with my MSCE Cloud platform and Infrastructure (*charter) cert. To make sure this was no spam. I logged into mcp.microsoft and yes it's even on my transcript earned today. The last exam I passed was the 70-413 1 month ago. I only completed the 70-410 to 70-413 exams. Has MS made a mistake? Has someone posed as me to do the exam? I can't imagine that.
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I guess Microsoft were due yet another complete reworking of the MCSE/MCSD system, it's only been a couple of years since the last one: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/09/27/microsoft_makes_massive_changes_to_mcse_and_mcsd/ https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/learning/mcse-certification.aspx Sefal posted:I have done no exam today and I just got an e-mail from Microsoft to congratulate me with my MSCE Cloud platform and Infrastructure (*charter) cert. [oMa]Whackster fucked around with this message at 09:40 on Sep 27, 2016 |
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Sep 27, 2016 09:32
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I've been the lone IT person at my job for 15 years. I want out, but I need certs for my resume. I currently have A+ and S+ which are fairly worthless. I'm not sure which path to take next. MCSE path or CCIE path? I know I've got a long road of studying, but I want to get started on the path. Which path has more prospects? Which is more lucrative? Where should I start? CCENT and go from there?
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What have you been doing for fifteen years? You should be able to determine what you like by this point.
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Bigass Moth posted:What have you been doing for fifteen years? You should be able to determine what you like by this point.
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Leon Einstein posted:Pretty much everything IT related for a small business with 20ish users and 150 or so remote users. I had set up servers from scratch, Citrix servers, etc. I migrated to Office365 a few years ago, and last year I migrated our main management system software to the cloud. PCs rarely have problems these days and I'm not very challenged by what I do. I basically have to set up users in various sites, reset passwords, etc. It is all easy, but there's nowhere for me to go career wise. I'm looking for something with more advancement opportunities. What do you LIKE to do? Or, what in IT makes you hate your life the least?
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MF_James posted:What do you LIKE to do? Or, what in IT makes you hate your life the least? I just don't feel like I'm learning anything new, and won't be if I stay here. I sort of feel like an IT fraud because my job is so easy. I want to sharpen my chops. Leon Einstein fucked around with this message at 18:22 on Sep 27, 2016 |
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Leon Einstein posted:I like hardware and hands on stuff the most, but I don't really think that'd pay well since it's easy stuff. I really don't hate anything. It's just I feel like a janitor since we are basically fully in the cloud now and the necessity of me keeping our servers up to date and running well is gone. Yeah hands on poo poo is not going to make you fat stacks of cash, so if you're looking to make good money you'll have to get away from that. If you don't care about making good money, go be a datacenter monkey.
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I do care about the money. I've been offered the job to run the office as they are opening a new location out of state, but I'm not really excited about it. I want to deal with high end IT, not HR BS.
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Leon Einstein posted:I do care about the money. I've been offered the job to run the office as they are opening a new location out of state, but I'm not really excited about it. I want to deal with high end IT, not HR BS. There are several ways out of your place and the good news is you can choos which one to take. You could go the OS way and go for your MCSA / MCSE or RHCSA / RHCE depending if you like Windows or Linux better. If you want to get into networking you can start with CCNA and later CCNP / CCIE. This will probably take you a lot longer than the OS route (ccie for sure). With a lot of hands on experience like you seem to have, you could also try to land an Ops Engineer role in a DevOps team. Or start learning Java/.Net and become a programmer. Landing jobs with no experience might be tricky though. VCP is also something you can look at, but I know nothing about that track. Try to figure out what you'd like to do and start making steps. It sounds like you have some time to study on the job, try to do that as much as you can. Once you've decided what you want to be when you grow up we can give you pointsrs at what materials you could use.
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Yeah if you want to jump ship and make all the monies, "specializing" in something is the way to go, figure out what you want to do and then work towards certs for that. Like networking? Go CCNA. Like windows servers? MCS* certs. Linux? RHCSA. You need to decide what you want to do tho.
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I'd prefer OS stuff honestly. Is it worth getting my Network +? It should be fairly easy for me to get, but I've seen the thread recommend Cisco certs for networking instead.
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If you're not sure just pick one you think you like. If it's not your cup of tea you can pick another one. Nothing wrong having 2-3 entry certifications. Hiring managers / HR love that stuff and it'll give you a pretty good basis for anything. Skip Network+ and go for CCENT/CCNA LochNessMonster fucked around with this message at 20:25 on Sep 27, 2016 |
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Is CASP worth anything?
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If you're at 15 years of experience, the Network+ will not do anything to help you get in the door for a new job. It will be a speck of dust on your resume. You'll need to look at the CCNA / MCSA level of certification to see even the smallest benefit. At 15 years I think you'd see improved chances with CCNP / MCSE levels of certs. CISSP is good if you're looking at the security side of things but it sounds like you want to stay in the hardware / hands-on realm.
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Thanks for the help guys.
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"[oMa posted:Whackster" post="464712170"] Oh sweet. Does this mean that the MCSE server infrastructure cert is being phased out? I only need to do the 70-414 exam. Was planning of focusing on the upgrade exam for MCSA 2016 next year. Not sure if any word is out on the MCSE 2016 exams. It's still worth to pick the mcse server infrastructure up right?
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God drat, ANNUAL recertification? I get the soundbites - this keeps you up on technology. But oh my god how much is this going to screw the absent minded individual who lets the date slip because it's every drat year, loses his cert, and has to start all over?
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Just had this confirmed by a colleague at Ignite: You don't lose your MCSE if you don't recertify, you earn a new one each year, so MCSE Mobility 2016, then MCSE Mobility 2017 the following year if you do an additional elective. From the FAQ: “These credentials do not have a recertification requirement. Instead, the achievement date signifies how you keep up with changes to the technology. Every year, you have the opportunity to re-earn the certification by passing an exam from the list of electives, demonstrating your investment in broadening or deepening your skills in a given Center of Excellence. Each time you earn the certification, a new certification entry is added to your transcript.”
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Ooooh, well excellent.  Although I look forward to "MCSE Mobility 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019..." in 2024 being the new version of "VCP 3.5, 4, 5, 5.5, 6" that we're seeing on resumes today. Just, just say VCP guy, I get it.
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I'm not going to argue with the MCSE changes; makes picking it up from MCSA a single test, which is cool.
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Jeoh posted:MSCE 2000, 2003, 2008, 2008R2, 2012, 2012R2, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2018R2, 2018R2SP1... If i see something like this on someone's resume I'm just going to assume they're a loving rear end in a top hat. 
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vyst posted:If i see something like this on someone's resume I'm just going to assume they're a loving rear end in a top hat. Jokes that some poor fool might mistake as racist probably need some context - I've never seen someone pad out a resume with certificates quite like a South Asian candidate.
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MC Fruit Stripe posted:Hey, come on, Indians are a fine people with a rich cultural heritage. This made me lol really hard because while it appears racist their notorious certification factories are all to familiar to the resumes coming across my desk
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Anyone working on Cisco TSHOOT? I found http://www.cisco.com/c/dam/en_us/training-events/le3/le2/le37/le10/tshoot_demo.html to practice some scenarios. I am NOT looking for the correct answers here, but it seems that no matter what I answer, even randomly, it says "you have answered correctly" I was expecting more of, you answered 1 out of 3 correctly, for whichever ticket was being worked on. Wondering if this may be buggy...
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I passed 70-533 yesterday, whoop whoop. Now to try and transfer into a project where I can actually play with Azure instead of just futzing about with it at home!
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gently caress I can't believe it's been a year and a half already.quote:Your VMware Certified Professional credential will expire within 6 months.
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Taking my final test for MCSE tomorrow. Hopefully it's not as bad as I expect; but I think it will be. Microsoft tests are annoying as hell 
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