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Oh boy! Monitor and desk chat! I didn't think this thread would ever get so tedious as the days of a good corvette fisher breakdown, but you guys did it! Off to a great 2016! On a more technical note, the objectives for the exchange mcse look like a bitch, but the study material I've been going through hasn't been bad at all. Anyone here take these tests and what did you think of the difficulty?
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One of the political threads had a big derail about the difference between nerds and geeks. We could talk about that instead!
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GnarlyCharlie4u posted:are there any excellent 2k 16:10 120+hz around? This is from RyuHimora fucked around with this message at 01:23 on Jan 15, 2016 |
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vibur posted:Desk talk: I've never before wished I was a sociopath but here it is. Oh but to have a desk that clean for more than 10 minutes due to "I'll put that away later" I thought it was normal to have poo poo stacked 5 feet tall on your desk until I transitioned from corporate IT/helldesk to operations. That was the moment I could clear away all of the broken equipment, ancient manuals and install CD's, sticky notes requesting urgent assistance while I was away for 2 seconds instead of opening a ticket ( ![]() Dark Helmut posted:Recruiter hell. Jesus, your calendar ![]()
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Dark Helmut posted:Recruiter hell. I'm sure that Easy button would go through a goddamn window if I were in that cubicle.
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Erwin posted:Everyone here has 4 24" monitors. I'm not sure I could ever go back to a measly two. ![]() ![]() ![]() I use one of my vertices primarily for Spotify. Generally my layout is: Spotify -> Putty -> VMWare -> Chrome I really could use another for Pidgin/Skype/Facebook chat.
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Che Delilas posted:I'm sure that Easy button would go through a goddamn window if I were in that cubicle. We only hit that thing whenever we close a difficult deal, so that easy button is well respected as it is reserved for hard-earned $$$
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I do not see an easy button in the picture. Ninja edit: oh there it is
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CloFan posted:I do not see an easy button in the picture. That was easy
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BaseballPCHiker posted:Hey DickTrauma whatever happened with the last psychopath building manager you were working with? Dick hasn't posted in any of the IT threads (or honestly much at all) for over a month. Are you OK buddy?
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Dark Helmut posted:We only hit that thing whenever we close a difficult deal, so that easy button is well respected as it is reserved for hard-earned $$$ Ah, that makes more sense. We have a bell for that where I work.
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I passed the MCSA 70-410 exam today! I have to say, that it is a pretty tough exam. Managed to score 842. On to 411! Sefal fucked around with this message at 12:16 on Jan 15, 2016 |
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Congrats! Those tests are not easy.
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Someone asked about working at a resort.... My subordinate has to go fix a point-of-sales system at one of our lodges on the mountain. Since we're covered in snow, the easiest way to get there is the ski lift. He brought his skis with him so when he's done, he gets to take a run on the slopes.
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Sefal posted:I passed the MCSA 70-410 exam today! I failed this twice. It was truly cuntish. Difficult to study for.
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Bringing this up from earlier in the thread, Clam Down, I think you're a furriner ![]() ![]() Edit: English, where the words are made up and the spellings don't matter. SyNack Sassimov fucked around with this message at 21:12 on Jan 15, 2016 |
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I have since scolded my autocorrect, ty mate
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Sefal posted:I passed the MCSA 70-410 exam today! I have also bombed 411. It seems to include the largest number of questions about crap nobody uses.
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Do MS tests still do "here's a screenshot of a settings dialog. What tab is x option on?"
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Thanks Ants posted:Do MS tests still do "here's a screenshot of a settings dialog. What tab is x option on?" Yes. Very little practical anything still in 2016.
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Sickening posted:Yes. Very little practical anything still in 2016. This kind of thing is why I think a lot of people use braindumps, and although I don't myself, I see the appeal - why bother spending time memorizing where specific options are on the screen when in your actual job you'll never need that option and when you do it's two seconds of clicking around, or Google if you need to. How often is there a Jack Bauer type situation where the extra few seconds it takes to click the tab and read the options to see if the one you want is there are critical? Don't get me wrong, if you don't know where to go to change an IP etc. that's a problem, but testing people on the inner nooks and crannies of the OS (which change slightly every revision) is such a waste of time. Cisco's simlets are so much more useful for actually testing knowledge of the system that it makes the Microsoft tests look silly. If Microsoft really wanted to test ability, they'd have a simlet that required using some obscure settings in obscure tabs, and have the simlet be aggressively timed - either you're good enough at figuring things out quickly to make the changes, or you did in fact memorize all the settings. Either way, just like in real life, you either get it done in a sensible amount of time or you're bad at the test (and therefore job).
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Potato Alley posted:Cisco's simlets are so much more useful for actually testing knowledge of the system that it makes the Microsoft tests look silly. If Microsoft really wanted to test ability, they'd have a simlet that required using some obscure settings in obscure tabs, and have the simlet be aggressively timed - either you're good enough at figuring things out quickly to make the changes, or you did in fact memorize all the settings. Either way, just like in real life, you either get it done in a sensible amount of time or you're bad at the test (and therefore job). This is why I'll never even bother with a windows cert. I'm like 50/50 network admin and windows admin in my current position. The CCNA was a no brainer for me but I'll never even bother with a Microsoft cert. Even the VCP I'm studying for seems to be much more reasonable and simlet based on reality, not memorizing menu options.
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I did the Hyper-V MCSA when it was on a free promo and the transcript you get at the end shows your performance in each area of the exam, arranged chronologically. After the 40 minute mark there was pretty much a linear decay of scores from each section as I got bored.
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Power's out, happy Friday!
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CLAM DOWN posted:Power's out, happy Friday! ![]() edit: wrong thread ChubbyThePhat fucked around with this message at 22:49 on Jan 15, 2016 |
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Thanks Ants posted:Do MS tests still do "here's a screenshot of a settings dialog. What tab is x option on?" Yeah and if it was poo poo you used every day, you might know it, but it's always some random setting you seldom use or would use once like authorising DHCP or some poo poo.
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quote:Network Architect
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l feel like that salary range is a bit low for someone with a CCIE or CCAr.
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No poo poo.
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Well it's a city government job.
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GreenNight posted:No poo poo. The funny thing is I could probably do that job, and the salary would be great for me. But they'd never hire me. ![]()
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Someone from HR just pasted the highest Cisco certs they could find in there. Why the gently caress would you hire a CCIE and have them doing random VMware/SAN work, or running your goddam MDM. I guess maybe you would if that's all you were planning to pay them.
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Thanks Ants posted:Someone from HR just pasted the highest Cisco certs they could find in there. Why the gently caress would you hire a CCIE and have them doing random VMware/SAN work, or running your goddam MDM. I guess maybe you would if that's all you were planning to pay them. I'm having a hard time imagining why a city would need a CCIE on staff at all; much less a CCAr. It's not like they're going to be deploying a new datacenter every other month.
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The job listing that the hiring manager first put out no doubt looks a lot different to that one.
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Colonial Air Force posted:Someone asked about working at a resort.... I used to work for a WISP that operated in rural Colorado. The "field ops" guys who had to go install and fix poo poo on towers in remote locations had the coolest loving stories. For example, they had use of a Sno Cat to get at a couple truly ridiculous tower sites way the hell up on top of 14,000 ft mountains (random Google photo, not mine): ![]() If they had to make that run, they'd rock/paper/scissors for who had to drive down and who got to snowboard miles of virgin backcountry bowls. They'd also get threatened at gunpoint semi-frequently when Rancher Joe confused the guys he explicitly granted access to his property for random crooks ![]() ![]() They did take a photo of me on top of our tower on a skyscraper in downtown Denver. Need to find that drat thing. I've used too many photo services over the years. Docjowles fucked around with this message at 04:39 on Jan 16, 2016 |
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KillHour posted:l feel like that salary range is a bit low for someone with a CCIE or CCAr. Government jobs you do for the pension not the pay. In fact the salary range is probably based on years of government service and has nothing to do with actual experience.
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I want to drive that thing so bad
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I have seen this posted in at least 3 threads now and I read it every time and I laugh at it every time.
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