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just swipe the isbn from amazon and  is the most ethical course of action at this point.
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Tetramin posted:What does this mean, people sell books with different content, or they print their own lovely copies or what? https://nypost.com/2022/07/31/pirated-books-thrive-on-amazon-authors-say-web-giant-ignores-fraud/amp/ I know it’s the NY Post but there’s good pictures in this one. See also: https://twitter.com/fchollet/status/1550930876183166976 Suspect A posted:just swipe the isbn from amazon and This is the way
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The Iron Rose posted:https://nypost.com/2022/07/31/pirated-books-thrive-on-amazon-authors-say-web-giant-ignores-fraud/amp/ Lol that amazon can't do the sole thing they were created to do. I knew Amazon was getting bad but this is just inexcusable. Anyone have any alternative online storefronts for textbooks? Suspect A fucked around with this message at 00:38 on Aug 10, 2023 |
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Suspect A posted:Lol that amazon can't do the sole thing they were created to do. I knew Amazon was getting bad but this is just inexcusable. Anyone have any alternative online storefronts for textbooks? Alternatives have already been mentioned itt
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Weaponized Autism posted:Passed AZ-104 this morning Congrats!! What did you use to prep, and how did the exam compare to the prep?
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Hughmoris posted:Congrats!! Thanks! Prep consisted of: 1. The Microsoft Learn modules which were very helpful: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/certifications/exams/az-104/ 2. John Savill's AZ-104 crash course video - not too helpful but he does a good job at least going over what is covered on the exam 3. Exam dumps, exam dumps, exam dumps. Especially the ones found on ExamTopics: https://www.examtopics.com/exams/microsoft/az-104/ The exam was recently updated and it included a lot more questions about Log Analytics than I expected. The exam dumps are incredibly helpful and it helps you get used to the style and the format of how the questions are presented to you on the exam. The deeper you go into the world of Azure and Azure exams, do spend more time in labs and actually clicking around, reading material alone won't help you IMO. I'd say overall the way I studied, I felt about 70-80% confident about taking the exam and I passed with a 760 score (required to pass 700). I feel like if I spent more time on reading material and practical lab work (clicking around in the Azure portal, using Azure Storage Explorer, playing with RBAC permissions, etc.) I would have scored much higher. Weaponized Autism fucked around with this message at 03:47 on Aug 19, 2023 |
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Weaponized Autism posted:Thanks! Congrats on your pass! I'm doing it in 18 days. What helped me feel more confident is having an actual task to do in Azure rather than even a lab (which I'm still doing). I got all my data from Spotify thanks to GDPR and that gave me some csvs, which I tried to import into Azure SQL, which required I set up a SQL server and configure access, and then to import the data I had to use Azure Data Factory which required I set up a vnet and private endpoint, and then I had to alter the csvs so that Data Factory would accept it. This took like 2 weeks of troubleshooting and googling error messages. SQL and Data Factory aren't on the test, but it made me have to really dig around in the platform to make this happen and cause things to break which meant I had to fix it, which is primarily the way I learn things.
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skooma512 posted:Congrats on your pass! I'm doing it in 18 days. Everything i'm reading for the AZ (minus BD) is are you also able to segment that SQL instance into a vnet and: configure the NSG, setup the firewall services, and a S2E VPN connection. What you did is a lot of devops for the cloud admin tier, which is amazing.
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My employer is offering PMP classes, which I took them up on. I'm reading through the requirements to take the exam, and I need 36 months of project management experience... I've been desktop support my entire career. So I can't advance my career with education, because I haven't yet advanced in my career. Can't do any management because I am not already management. There's a lesser certification called the CAPM, but I really don't feel like doing an entire class just to get a bullshit cert nobody cares about. I feel like just walking away from this whole thing.
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skooma512 posted:My employer is offering PMP classes, which I took them up on. just lie to the PMP people, get the cert, get paid.
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wargames posted:just lie to the PMP people, get the cert, get paid. pmp is all about lying anyways its the first test
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skooma512 posted:My employer is offering PMP classes, which I took them up on. This is actually not true and is one of the most common misconceptions about the PMP (because it is incredibly stupid, like everything else about the PMP, and project management, and project managers). You do not need 36 months of project management experience. You need 36 months of experience working on projects. What constitutes a project is extremely loosely defined and you can make a case for almost anything.
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guppy posted:This is actually not true and is one of the most common misconceptions about the PMP (because it is incredibly stupid, like everything else about the PMP, and project management, and project managers). You do not need 36 months of project management experience. You need 36 months of experience working on projects. What constitutes a project is extremely loosely defined and you can make a case for almost anything. desktop support ticketing system is one big project improving the end user experience. you now have a life of project experience
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That probably won't fly, you will need to break it up into a project to upgrade the desktops of a 600-user userbase or whatever, stuff like that.
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ilkhan posted:Robert half is a good one. Just put in sys admin or network admin, your location and On-Site/hybrid/remote, and contract in LinkedIn. Should give you some leads. Is Robert Half the one that calls your current employer to say "So and so is out looking for a new job. It looks like you're going to need to backfill that position - you want someone?"
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KillHour posted:Is Robert Half the one that calls your current employer to say "So and so is out looking for a new job. It looks like you're going to need to backfill that position - you want someone?" wouldn't be surprised.
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KillHour posted:Is Robert Half the one that calls your current employer to say "So and so is out looking for a new job. It looks like you're going to need to backfill that position - you want someone?" I didn’t want to say this since I wasn’t 100% sure, but that’s what I remembered from the IT worker thread.
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All those agencies are scummy in one way or another but if you are unemployed or looking to get your feet wet in IT, they tend to be the fastest way. I would never leave a full time position in IT for one of those companies.
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KillHour posted:Is Robert Half the one that calls your current employer to say "So and so is out looking for a new job. It looks like you're going to need to backfill that position - you want someone?"
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Went to take the azure DP-203 today only to find out my license expired a few days ago during the check in process. So now I have to wait 2 weeks to get my new card and pay for the drat test again.
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Heck Yes! Loam! posted:Went to take the azure DP-203 today only to find out my license expired a few days ago during the check in process. So now I have to wait 2 weeks to get my new card and pay for the drat test again. That sucks big time. Take solace in the fact that you’re not alone. It happened to me once early in my career and my boss was incredibly angry about it. It expired like 1-3 days before my exam I think. Hope yours is more forgiving about it!
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LochNessMonster posted:That sucks big time. Take solace in the fact that you’re not alone. It happened to me once early in my career and my boss was incredibly angry about it. It expired like 1-3 days before my exam I think. Work is understandable about it. They comped the cost and are willing to again. I'm just upset because I've been cramming all week and was ready to go. Now I have to maintain that level of readiness for a couple weeks which means an hour or more of studying daily to keep it fresh.
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That's such bullshit a recently expired license is DQ. What could possibly have changed that would make the information on the license invalid?
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KillHour posted:Is Robert Half the one that calls your current employer to say "So and so is out looking for a new job. It looks like you're going to need to backfill that position - you want someone?" Lol that is loving scummy. I had a convo with them on my most recent search and they requested my current managers contact info and wouldn’t progress without it. I never followed up with them because it just seemed weird. Most company systems have automated verification lines, nobody should need to speak with your actual boss.
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Contingency posted:Sign up for the CE program. Sign up for Cisco U, get 16 credits for passing the free DEVNAE course. Submit a claim for the 16 CEUs. Keep an eye on the impending Rev Up release: Quoting this again because this was by far the most painless recertification process I've ever done and now I have three more years of letters. Thank you for that.
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Weaponized Autism posted:Thanks! Congrats dude but PLEASE either delete or censor that last Prep tip 
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ok so i'm not crazy and we didn't normalized that step in the last few hundo pages.
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Just don't talk about dumps. They're out there, people use them, we just don't talk about them.
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Yeah those seem to defeat the purpose, or at least part of it. In my mind, these technical certs are kind of a study blueprint, not just a thing to slap on your resume.
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KillHour posted:Is Robert Half the one that calls your current employer to say "So and so is out looking for a new job. It looks like you're going to need to backfill that position - you want someone?" They do but honestly it's still another big IT Firm with tens of thousands of employees. It unfortunately comes with the territory of big business. If you are just trying to break into the industry, it's fine.
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BornAPoorBlkChild posted:Congrats dude but PLEASE either delete or censor that last Prep tip skipdogg posted:Just don't talk about dumps. They're out there, people use them, we just don't talk about them. Can we though? First, not all but too many IT Exams are freaking awful so bad it should nearly be illegal. I've been in IT for over a decade and I should not be reading exam questions that are poorly written, terrible grammer or things where it's asking me what's the maximum size of a SharePoint Site Colllection?  The gently caress? I have no idea off the top of my dead, why in the goddamn hell would anyone memorize that? Anyway, it was 250GB but that literally wasn't option the exam! I had to use the WayBackMachine on O365 Documentation to find the right answer As for test dumps, I literally don't give a gently caress anymore. You'll suss that out in an interview. Dumps are one thing but what's another is when companies release training content that's terrible, doesn't actually help employers/workers and easily dumped.
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yeah tbh I think dumps should be discouraged heavily because it's not how you should learn any material, but as a last minute review tool I don't see any reason not to. what's important, like the person above me said, is the concepts, not tiny details relevant to to a fraction of a niche of a product.
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I don't use them and never have, and I don't think most people do. More importantly, if you are caught admitting that you use them, vendors will revoke your certifications and even prevent you from taking any future ones.
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VMware can take my VCP5-DCV from my cold dead hands
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Tetramin posted:Yeah those seem to defeat the purpose, or at least part of it. In this job market it's both.
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guppy posted:I don't use them and never have, and I don't think most people do. More importantly, if you are caught admitting that you use them, vendors will revoke your certifications and even prevent you from taking any future ones. Never used exam dumps, how are those different from test exs like tutorial dojos offer?
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I find Microsoft learn courses and practice tests are usually good enough to pass their exams. Can't say the same for other companies.
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LochNessMonster posted:Never used exam dumps, how are those different from test exs like tutorial dojos offer? They are literally questions from real exams.
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