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Vampire Panties posted:Just wanted to say - thank you thread for pointing me towards WGU. I'm the proverbial older IT worker who needs to pass some HR screens, and it looks like they're seemingly going to take my 54 credits from community college CCNP Security: I passed SCOR and am in the middle of studying for SVPN. Everyone knows the traditional CCNP--Cisco stuff, but enough protocol knowledge in there to make you valuable. Totally worthwhile. That's not CCNP Security. The new core exam design is "highlights of every concentration exam in one mega exam." If you happen to work with ISE, Firepower, Umbrella, ESA, and have a time machine to go back to 2017 when you were setting up Anyconnect on ASDM, or would like to work in a pure-Cisco MDR, then CCNP Security is a good fit. Otherwise, studying deployment guides and screenshots of legacy products will not be particularly helpful building your skill set.
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So I'm zipping through WGU's Cloud program and approaching the point where I'm going to have to make a decision about which way to go. I think we take one Azure cert and one AWS cert and then have to decide to specialize or go generalist; is the "AWS has more share, but Azure's growing faster" thing still holding true? I know it's not super hard to translate skills from one branch to the other, but if there's any cloud wonks here right now which way would you jump?
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Contingency posted:CCNP Security: Thats my experience renewing my CCNP Collaboration. Lots of very, very specific edge cases for the various specializations. I suppose it makes sense, there aren't a lot of on-premise deployments happening these days, but I'd expect more cloud-based stuff. Otoh I'd say there's a decent chance that Cisco dumps collab entirely in concessions to MS Teams  EDIT also I think it has to do with the main CCNP test now qualifying as the written for the CCIE. Previously the CCIE written was entirely edge cases and minutiae.
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kazmeyer posted:So I'm zipping through WGU's Cloud program and approaching the point where I'm going to have to make a decision about which way to go. I think we take one Azure cert and one AWS cert and then have to decide to specialize or go generalist; is the "AWS has more share, but Azure's growing faster" thing still holding true? I know it's not super hard to translate skills from one branch to the other, but if there's any cloud wonks here right now which way would you jump? Just pick whatever you feel most comfortable with. Skills for both are overlapping so it’s not like you’ll be stuck if you pick the “wrong” one.
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I'm thinking on trying for a CCNP again to make myself more marketable. My CCNA is expired but I'd rather go the continuing education route and get a new cert rather than just re-do an old one. I passed the CCNP Switch exam back in 2018 but didn't commit to the rest like a dummy. Made the fatal mistake of taking a quick break in between exams, 6 years later I'm still on break. I'm super out of the certification loop right now. I think my main question right now is regarding the concentration exams. I know I don't need to commit to one yet but I'll do better if I have some sort of game plan in mind. It feels like most of the resources available on the concentrations exams are for the 300-140 ENARSI, but I kinda want to take 300-415 ENSDWI instead. I have a free Percipio subscription through work but Percipio doesn't even have any ENSDWI resources, only for ENARSI and some limited stuff on ENSLD. Am I going to make my life unnecessarily difficult going for anything other than ENARSI? My main motivation is to make more money so while I'm not committed to the path of least resistance, I also don't want to make things unnecessarily difficult on myself since my free study time is already tight.
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It’s been 3 1/2 years since I’ve taken my concentration exam and I’ve since let my CCNP certification expire. Things may have changed. The ENSARI was really popular when it all changed as it was the closest to the TSHOOT replacement, and a lot of training material rebranded over to it. I took the ENSLD and found it to be extremely easy; easier than my original CCNA in fact, but there was very little training material available back then (there wasn’t a book out for it). So I don’t think ENSARI is the only reasonable option, but I have no experience with ENSDWI. (I made a short post itt about ENSLD at the time)
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Is it even remotely worthwhile to get any VM-based (not necessarily cloud/AWS based) certification, outside of satisfying the HR filter?
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Killer_B posted:Is it even remotely worthwhile to get any VM-based (not necessarily cloud/AWS based) certification, outside of satisfying the HR filter? If you mean VMWare, then I’d say no since Broadcom is actively killing the brand. If you mean generic Virtual Machine certs, I have no idea what you’re referring to. I don’t think there are VM based cloud certs?
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Azure is temporarily giving out free vouchers for their AI certs if you do their Learn Module. https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/cloudskillschallenge/ai/registration/2024#choose-your-challenge I’ve confirmed you can double dip with the 30 Days to Learn challenge and after you complete the module for the AI cert you can use the 50% voucher on a different exam.
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salartarium posted:Azure is temporarily giving out free vouchers for their AI certs if you do their Learn Module. So potentially a free AZ-900 cert and 50% off another cert? gently caress yeah thank you!!!! 
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I currently have senior sysadmin position that pays peanuts and am looking for new work as an IT manager/ project manager. Or barring that, a better paying sysadmin role. I have lots of PM experience in my position, but it's not in my title. All my certifications are Mac-focused (Jamf, ACMT), but my local job market rarely ever has Mac-centric roles posted. What are some worthwhile certifications that would help me get interviews? I see a lot of postings up my alley mention ITIL. Is that the right move? Just find a local place that offers ITIL courses and certifications? Or is ITIL an equivalent to A+ where it actually doesn't teach much and doesn't open the right doors?
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Spoderman posted:I currently have senior sysadmin position that pays peanuts and am looking for new work as an IT manager/ project manager. Or barring that, a better paying sysadmin role. I have lots of PM experience in my position, but it's not in my title. All my certifications are Mac-focused (Jamf, ACMT), but my local job market rarely ever has Mac-centric roles posted. PMP and Six Sigma belts seem to be the gold standard in the US, although I believe ITIL is big in Europe? If you have enough projects that you can massage into qualifying for the PMP, I'd highly suggest that
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Vampire Panties posted:PMP and Six Sigma belts seem to be the gold standard in the US, although I believe ITIL is big in Europe? If you have enough projects that you can massage into qualifying for the PMP, I'd highly suggest that Thanks! At first I despaired when I saw the requirements to qualify but after reading more closely, I think I stand a fair chance. Appreciate the tip.
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LochNessMonster posted:If you mean VMWare, then I’d say no since Broadcom is actively killing the brand. I'm still tempted to bang out the few additional VMware certs that I was planning on. Not me paying the exam fees + minimal study time needed (at least I assume from skimming the exam guides).
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Spoderman posted:I currently have senior sysadmin position that pays peanuts and am looking for new work as an IT manager/ project manager. Or barring that, a better paying sysadmin role. I have lots of PM experience in my position, but it's not in my title. All my certifications are Mac-focused (Jamf, ACMT), but my local job market rarely ever has Mac-centric roles posted. If you want out of day to day tech bullshit, going the technical project management route is a pretty good approach. If you want between 2 and 5x the pay using similar skillsets, the journey to the cloud is the way.
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The Iron Rose posted:If you want out of day to day tech bullshit, going the technical project management route is a pretty good approach. that really is the crossroads i’m between. i’m tired of the feeling of constantly being behind the eight ball trying to keep all our software and servers up to date and just solving the same problems over and over at a company that never learns anything. i’m sure a pm job is just different flavors of the same bullshit but i feel like i’d get to effect more change. but i also could use a lot more money, which would help paper over the other frustrations. what are good cloud technology certs? that az-900?
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salartarium posted:Azure is temporarily giving out free vouchers for their AI certs if you do their Learn Module. Few days late, but thanks! Free AI-900 here I come. So I've been shadowing/talking to a lead networking engineer at work, and he suggested I pick a cloud cert path and start working at it now that my CCNA is done. I've already got my AZ-900, and my company primarily uses Azure stuff, so going to start tackling the AZ-104 at some point in the near future. That said, how hard is it in comparison to the CCNA?
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You do ITIL if you want to get into a (generally highly) regulated field like finance or things like heavy industry, public utilities where reproducible process is king. Those jobs generally pay well and are stable, but can be boring as poo poo since every issue is managed (using ITIL processes) very well.
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I’m so close to finishing WGU’s python class, just that and the capstone then I’m done with my degree. It got me thinking about future studying in terms of certs. My job seems more geared towards cybersecurity but my degree is in networking. I guess I’m wanting to know if it’s worth it to keep studying for networking certs and pivot later, or to just continue down the cybersecurity track. Networking sounds like it’d be more fun but without a taste of the real thing it could be more bullshit than it’s worth.
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unknown posted:You do ITIL if you want to get into a (generally highly) regulated field like finance or things like heavy industry, public utilities where reproducible process is king. Naw, every SMB will go through a few phases of management who decide that ITIL training/cert is required for all tech staff. 50% of em will bother training, 10% may even take the exam. It will end up going nowhere because while some takes aways are great even for a smaller org, management will only try to carry on with the most useless points of framework. Rinse/repeat every 6 or 8 years?
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Hot news for VMware certified professionals, start backing up your poo poo.Broadcom fuckers posted:Dear Slowbloke,
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Well that sounds like an unnecessary gently caress you by Broadcom.
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Cyks posted:Well that sounds like an unnecessary gently caress you by Broadcom. That's broadcom. I remember one time when we had a small dispute with broadcom, nothing major, and it was something really silly regards to licensing but broadcom went full balls to the walls and turned off everyone's access to docSafe. The email chirps for the next 4 hours as everyone's email box was filled up with "You no longer have access to document so_and_so on Broadcom docSafe."
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Cyks posted:Well that sounds like an unnecessary gently caress you by Broadcom. So, same as everything else they've done with VMware since the acquisition.
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In case you weren’t convinced that broadcom is fully comitted to gently caress everyone and milk the suckers who can’t migrate away quickly, this is your sign to gtfo.
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I work for a VAR, got two customers getting screwed over on Symantec renewals right now and dumping them. Talked to plenty of others that see the writing on the wall for VMWare and are looking at other options too.
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Hotel Kpro posted:I’m so close to finishing WGU’s python class, just that and the capstone then I’m done with my degree. It got me thinking about future studying in terms of certs. My job seems more geared towards cybersecurity but my degree is in networking. I guess I’m wanting to know if it’s worth it to keep studying for networking certs and pivot later, or to just continue down the cybersecurity track. Networking sounds like it’d be more fun but without a taste of the real thing it could be more bullshit than it’s worth. Well it depends on where you think your career is headed. Networking is very enjoyable especially if you can find the right job where you don’t have to deal with some of the worst of the repetitive BS. Idk what certs you have right now, but at some point real world experience will be necessary/more important than getting more certs. I dont think anyone can tell you if you should chase networking or cybersec, but I will say that I always am baffled when I run into infosec people who know nothing about networking. IMO, you should have a solid handle on networks to be a good infosec engineer.
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I could be way off base but I always felt like networking was easier to get your foot in the door and pivot to security. At least security that isn’t just looking at logs for 8 hours a day though I’ve never worked a primarily security role. Whereas I can have an entry level network person go do physical work on day one.
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Networking has historically been both the highly coveted role and also therefore the difficult-to-get-into role. Infosec supplanted it in at least the former because for a good while it was the role to collect fat paychecks for not very much work. I think the shine is off that apple now, as people realize that most infosec roles are not that interesting and not that glamorous, and the hype and therefore the money has cooled down. Cloud stuff and k8s is, I think, still the hottest sector at the moment. I personally think that you need a handle on at least the basics of networking to be good in any infosec role. But there are a lot of people who are in infosec role who aren't good at it and remain in those roles, like the auditors who demand impossible things, some of which would be very alarming if you could comply with them. "Network" roles can vary a lot in terms of what they actually entail, especially if you're in a very large, very siloed organization, so it would be good to have an idea of what kind of role you're looking for, although at the entry level you should probably take whatever you can get. You should also be prepared for a lot of gibberish from people who think networking needs to fix their non-networking problem because they don't understand networking.
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Back 10-15 years ago the saying at the bigcorp I worked for was that to even be considered within infosec you needed experience in at least two of the 3 primary infrastructure, networking, or developer roles. Thats definitely not the case any more as there are probably 50x the number of jobs, from engineering to architecture to vuln management or GRC, writing loving policy. Now just find something you like doing to head in a direction. You can always pivot if you find it sucks.
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Bought the voucher for CCNA. I have 90 days to get it done. Time to get a movin'.
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ilkhan posted:Bought the voucher for CCNA. I have 90 days to get it done. Time to get a movin'. I want to start studying for the CISSP but I'm currently doing in-house training for $job plus working on my Masters during off-hours. I can't muster the energy to tackle all three at once. I've grown old.
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Finally knocked out python, just have the capstone left then I'm done with my degree
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Passed the recert for my AWS Security specialty! Looking forward to a year of no cert studying! I might go for the networking specialty next. Or get real crazy and go for CCNP or something. I miss networking some days.
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BaseballPCHiker posted:Passed the recert for my AWS Security specialty! Looking forward to a year of no cert studying! Congrats, I hear it has a lot of overlap with SA Pro. Might be worthwile persuing that if you haven’t already.
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So for someone in a mid level admin role going back to start collecting certs on the security side, am I better off getting the security+, or just jump straight to SSCP and use that as a building block towards getting my CISSP?
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DeathSandwich posted:So for someone in a mid level admin role going back to start collecting certs on the security side, am I better off getting the security+, or just jump straight to SSCP and use that as a building block towards getting my CISSP? Get your Sec+ since that specifically meets some DoD requirements in case you ever move jobs or need to be able to work with the US military. It's also something that HR/Recruiting recognize on sight, so it helps you get past them when applying for jobs.
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FML I only have a capstone left to graduate but it involves building a working network from scratch using packet tracer or GNS3. The two written reports I saw were about 80 pages long. I feel like this is going to be a second job just getting this done
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That won't be that much work depending on the scope they want honestly.
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Yeah I see that it is doable and if everything goes right it won’t be so bad. I think the hardest part for me is getting started, and I can’t do that without coming up with three of my own custom test cases for the network
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