IT Certifications and Careers (Official Discussion Thread)

[satam55]

How hard is it to get a helpdesk job with only an A+ certification and no degree?

Help desk is the bottom of the barrel. You should be able to get the gig as long as you can breath

It's easy to get a job with an A+ certification. After you get cert, you are going to get a lot of phone calls and some interviews.

Brehs I gotta get this A+ asap



Was looking at positions near where I live, one help desk job was paying $20/hour and another from $15-25/hour I could pay off my entire debt in one year and still have enough left to ball out




Just gotta keep grinding and finish this book hopefully by the end of December.

well get it then. A+ literally the easiest cert you can get.

I been browsing this thread for an hour or so. I think y'all might convinced me to finally pursue a A+ cert. I've putting this off for years though.

 

[princeofhaiti]

I been browsing this thread for an hour or so. I think y'all might convinced me to finally pursue a A+ cert. I've putting this off for years though.

Use a friends or your own .edu email address and you get each part of the exam for only 94$ as opposed to the standard 200$

 

[Silkk]

What's CBT nuggets?

An IT training website. There are a few I would recommend as well like Pluralsight and Careeracademy.

I prefer those to just reading straight from a book because of the video/lab training.

 

[Tr0yTV]

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[satam55]

An IT training website. There are a few I would recommend as well like Pluralsight and Careeracademy.

I prefer those to just reading straight from a book because of the video/lab training.

How do you go about doing the lab training via an online course?

 

[Silkk]

How do you go about doing the lab training via an online course?

Its a graphical user interface like a regular computer/Virtual machines

 

[satam55]

An IT training website. There are a few I would recommend as well like Pluralsight and Careeracademy.

I prefer those to just reading straight from a book because of the video/lab training.

How do you go about doing the lab training via an online course?

Its a graphical user interface like a regular computer/Virtual machines

So you didn't have to work on actual computer parts for the lab?

 

[Silkk]

So you didn't have to work on actual computer parts for the lab?

Depends on what you're training for breh

 

[satam55]

An IT training website. There are a few I would recommend as well like Pluralsight and Careeracademy.

I prefer those to just reading straight from a book because of the video/lab training.

How do you go about doing the lab training via an online course?

Its a graphical user interface like a regular computer/Virtual machines

So you didn't have to work on actual computer parts for the lab?

Depends on what you're training for breh

A+

 

[Silkk]

A+

You can watch/They show you videos of people doing hands on things with the hardware.

You mainly need to know the motherboard components.

 

[Scott Larock]

I can get anyone a+ training videos, I have the downloads. I csn out it in a disk and ship it to you, PM me if interested.

 

[Scott Larock]

A+ is a boo boo cert breh lol. You you dont have enough disciple to just do a cheap UDEMY course to become familier with the concepts IT may not be fore you.

Dont spend a rack for entry level cert

Yeah but you need to know how to take apart a pc. that's the main thing.

get a old pc off. craigslist and practice pulling it apart and back together.

 

[satam55]

A+ is a boo boo cert breh lol. You you dont have enough disciple to just do a cheap UDEMY course to become familier with the concepts IT may not be fore you.

Dont spend a rack for entry level cert

Yeah but you need to know how to take apart a pc. that's the main thing.

get a old pc off. craigslist and practice pulling it apart and back together.

@Silkk

 

[Scott Larock]

a+ is wack but it's true it's a basic foundation of computers.

most jobs at it but you don't wanna be in there even as a programmer and have a pc error or bsod and have no idea what to do, don't know how to change a memory stick or something. I know programmers are big Willie's compared to a A+ but your boss would probably look at you in if you didn't know how to take out memory or Uninstaller a power supply from a pc.

I'm just saying as a overall standard.

pretty sure all the IT guys at my job even the top Dawgs can pull out a hard drive.

I'm not sure what the title is, I think the cio is the top IT dawg, pretty sure he knows and he pushing 70.

just a basic foundation, it's a good investment.

 

[Silkk]

@Silkk

Breh you can learn that by watching