IT Certifications and Careers (Official Discussion Thread)

Melt_Man

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Hey guys, after all the run around bullshytting I've been doing it's time for me to get going in my field.

I'm currently been doing Help Desk (my first IT job post college) at a law firm downtown DC for about 8 months now. I'm pretty sure I want to take my direction in security next. So I'm going to start reading and taking practice exams to get my Sec+. This would be my first cert btw.

I'm just looking for advice from you guys. Any software you can recommend I download? Sites I should visit? I should probably get VMWare shouldn't I? What I should look out for or job opportunities?

Edit: For those in Security, What would you say are the benefits and drawbacks of being in this field. What are some things that you wish you would have known when you first got into the field? Do you like the field? Is it a worthy investment?

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Just received and signed my offer for a Systems Engineer position :lupe:

This is going to be interesting seeing as though I haven't done any real SysEng work since school(building and deploying Unix/Linux systems for class) and I have a mostly NetEng background(CCNA, 2/3 complete CCNP). I think I'm going to enjoy this side of the IT house more though. The guys said they will be training me on the more difficult concepts seeing as the position required 0-2 years experience. It looks weird for a NetEng guy to jump to SysEng, but I'm only 2 years into my career post college and I had to get up off that night shift.:blessed:

@Chris.B Thanks for that linuxcbt.com link in your post. Looks as though I'll be making that my homepage for a few months.

Breh that training is gonna be you showing up on the first day and they gonna show you how to access the ticket queue and they gonna show you yours and it's gonna already have like 20 tickets in it that they been sitting on for months :pachaha::pachaha::pachaha:

They probably in the office right now telling people...oh we hiring a new guy to do these server builds, soon as he get here we will put you in contact with him:pachaha::pachaha::pachaha:

LOL at IT training on the job...there is no such thing...

Good luck though breh :salute:
 

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Breh that training is gonna be you showing up on the first day and they gonna show you how to access the ticket queue and they gonna show you yours and it's gonna already have like 20 tickets in it that they been sitting on for months :pachaha::pachaha::pachaha:

They probably in the office right now telling people...oh we hiring a new guy to do these server builds, soon as he get here we will put you in contact with him:pachaha::pachaha::pachaha:

LOL at IT training on the job...there is no such thing...

Good luck though breh :salute:


YOOOO this shyt had me dying cause it's 100% true :russ:
 

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finally scraped everything together over the past 6 months and we're going to start beta testing the IT ticketing system I built using MS Team Foundation Server and our Exchange Server. If they like it, I get paid for the work. :smile:

Plus it'll save the company a lot of money in the long term because they pay me just a 1 time bonus and don't have to pay the monthly subscription for the system we were considering.

If they don't though, at least i tried.
 

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in idiot terms can anyone explain how to get a A+ and Comptia cert? do you have to go somewhere to take the test?
 

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Just got through with the first domain in Shon Harris CISSP. :snoop:

:heh: I remember going through that shyt. Don't worry, it gets worse from there :blessed:

EDIT: do you qualify for the CISSP breh? Don't wanna pass the test and not get the cert because you don't got enough years of experience.
 
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finally scraped everything together over the past 6 months and we're going to start beta testing the IT ticketing system I built using MS Team Foundation Server and our Exchange Server. If they like it, I get paid for the work. :smile:

Plus it'll save the company a lot of money in the long term because they pay me just a 1 time bonus and don't have to pay the monthly subscription for the system we were considering.

If they don't though, at least i tried.

If you gonna be doing a lot of Exchange work, starting learning powershell breh. That shyt will make you look like a God. Someone came by my desk on some

Cac: Hey bro, can you write a script to determine how many users are on Exchange 2010 vs 2007. We need it yesterday for a big project, please breh :why:
Me: IDK breh, I can maybe swing it Wednesday or Thursday, that's a lot of damn work:patrice:
Cac: Come on breh, please :noah:

Dumb ass don't know that shyt is only like 5 lines of code :pachaha:
 

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:heh: I remember going through that shyt. Don't worry, it gets worse from there :blessed:

EDIT: do you qualify for the CISSP breh? Don't wanna pass the test and not get the cert because you don't got enough years of experience.


You'll get a pass if your a FA53 in the Army regardless of the years in position.
 

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You'll get a pass if your a FA53 in the Army regardless of the years in position.

I'm assuming you've done your research, good luck with the test breh. And FYI, shyt's a scantron test. I walked into that bytch and felt like I was taking my SAT again.

The test wasn't too bad, the hardest part was taking an exam for 4 fukking hours :shaq2:
 
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