IT Certifications and Careers (Official Discussion Thread)

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Having a broad range of knowledge will most likely come with time. You still need that one thing that you know better than the others though

Haven't gotten there yet. Why do you say this? Put me on game
My Networking professor told me that if you want to get into Networking it's important to know Python
 

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I can't grasp the ccent material, should I go with the N+ first? the commands are confusing.
The network+ will give you a micro view of how everything plays together including switches. I would suggest learning the network+ before going for a Cisco cert if you're not already familiar with the basic foundation of networking
 

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My Networking professor told me that if you want to get into Networking it's important to know Python
Im looking into it now, I can understand why they say that now. Will be exciting to mesh my two favorite IT subjects into one..
 
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I can't grasp the ccent material, should I go with the N+ first? the commands are confusing.
If you dont practice doing the commands yourself, its going to be difficult to learn them honestly. You have to get your hands on a sim and do the configuration. But i would say N+ is good to learn first as some things overlap. But there wont be any command line stuff in the N+ so one way or another you will have to learn it.
 

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I can't grasp the ccent material, should I go with the N+ first? the commands are confusing.

as @Ice_MF_Mike as mentioned, unless you practice, it will be harder to grasp the concepts and information being taught. I may be wrong but I am under the impression that the CCENT (which is exam ICDN1) covers about the same information as the Network+ exam. ICDN1 and ICDN2 preps you for the CCNA. but I'd definitely do CCENT first, then research rather Network+ is needed or if you can jump into CCNA.
 

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Can somebody recommend software to migrate roughly 20 PC's from XP to 7?
 

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Can somebody recommend software to migrate roughly 20 PC's from XP to 7?

There are lots of ways to do this; judging by the size of your environment I would say you have little to no budget for this. I would suggest looking into Windows Easy Transfer
 

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There are lots of ways to do this; judging by the size of your environment I would say you have little to no budget for this. I would suggest looking into Windows Easy Transfer
It's a fairly large enterprise environment, there are just a few terminals left running XP.

I'm not even in our IT department, simply a student getting part time experience wirh the migration. I have no idea what we even have to work with, but I'm sure I can make an iso and deploy it.
 

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I read this entire 288 pg thread and brehs like @bdizzle @Data-Hawk @Ice_MF_Mike @FreshFromATL @krexzen and a host others were dropping nothing but gems. I encourage other people to read this thread for their benefit. But I took the time to make a PDF file of the gems that I thought were beneficial with some general guidelines as well so cats don't come in here and ask the same question. The link to the PDF is below

http://www.megafileupload.com/en/file/615605/Coli-IT-Careers-thread-Breakdown-pdf.html
Enjoy the gems
 
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Could someone help a breh out? I'm not exactly sure how an entry level IT resume should look or how to list my skills when I don't yet have the certs. I'm just going for help desk positions. It's time to move on from my current position.
 

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Could someone help a breh out? I'm not exactly sure how an entry level IT resume should look or how to list my skills when I don't yet have the certs. I'm just going for help desk positions. It's time to move on from my current position.

give me some time breh but I'll edit my current resume to remove my personal information and set it up so you can see how an IT resume is structured and allow you to enter your own information. I'll try and get that to you by the end of the day.
 

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Could someone help a breh out? I'm not exactly sure how an entry level IT resume should look or how to list my skills when I don't yet have the certs. I'm just going for help desk positions. It's time to move on from my current position.

here you go breh, http://www.filedropper.com/resumeoutline-copy

I removed the personal information, if you have any questions PM me.
 

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I read this entire 288 pg thread and brehs like @bdizzle @Data-Hawk @Ice_MF_Mike @FreshFromATL @krexzen and a host others were dropping nothing but gems. I encourage other people to read this thread for their benefit. But I took the time to make a PDF file of the gems that I thought were beneficial with some general guidelines as well so cats don't come in here and ask the same question. The link to the PDF is below

http://www.megafileupload.com/en/file/615605/Coli-IT-Careers-thread-Breakdown-pdf.html
Enjoy the gems

Good looking out breh definitely did your thing with this pdf. :salute:
 
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