IT Certifications and Careers (Official Discussion Thread)

[Snoopy Loops]

After I got two AWS certs a ton of oil and gas companies in Houston hit me up but they all seem to be on Azure. I've thought about getting an Azure cert but I'm not a fan of the platform tbh.

Honestly I thought about Azure. One of my homegirls who kinda inspired me to get on this cloud cert wave, was gung-ho on Azure, but I kinda argued for AWS.

The oil and gas on azure thing makes sense. They probably think cuz they use Active directory, they gotta use Azure. On the real, probably cuz they use .NET stack to build their stuff

 

[Spin]

Honestly I thought about Azure. One of my homegirls who kinda inspired me to get on this cloud cert wave, was gung-ho on Azure, but I kinda argued for AWS.

The oil and gas on azure thing makes sense. They probably think cuz they use Active directory, they gotta use Azure. On the real, probably cuz they use .NET stack to build their stuff

As long as you know Terraform you should be good. Not sure if I got the names right, but it seems Azure makes you use resource groups or some other step that’s optional in AWS. Might be wrong, but I just did a quick run through the other day standing up some infrastructure.

Azure Kubernetes damn near the same as Google too, but Google as of now has better documentation.

 

[thaKEAF]

Just passed the Security+

This one was for the Mamba

 

[L&HH]

Honestly I thought about Azure. One of my homegirls who kinda inspired me to get on this cloud cert wave, was gung-ho on Azure, but I kinda argued for AWS.

The oil and gas on azure thing makes sense. They probably think cuz they use Active directory, they gotta use Azure. On the real, probably cuz they use .NET stack to build their stuff

Apparently this designer shyt is an AWS cheatcode

 

[Scott Larock]

If anyone ever spoke to bzille in the past he gave me a resume site with sample resumes, a few years ago and I lost the site. it's dev-ops something I think, someone hit me up if you spoke to him before he left coli.

He gave a sample resume format too, please hit me up if you spoke to him.

 

[Scott Larock]

I need to learn about government compliance... what's a good book to get? Something quick?

SOX, DFARS, ITARS, PCI, FEDRAMP, GDPR, CPPA)

Stuff like this. Pm me please

 

[xXMASHERXx]

I need to learn about government compliance... what's a good book to get? Something quick?

SOX, DFARS, ITARS, PCI, FEDRAMP, GDPR, CPPA)

Stuff like this. Pm me please

I'll ask a couple of coworkers if they have any recommendations. It might take a day or two to get back to you.

 

[MR. Conclusion]

Does anyone know of a relatively low stress job that doesn't deal with call support? And is also high-paying?

I already have A+, Net+, and am currently skilling up in javascript, java, MERN stack. I will have 4 web projects completed by Aug of this year for my portfolio.

I also have a couple years exp teaching A+/Net+ as well as freelance CMS website experience with a little bit of front-end coding.

At this point, I just need something that's relatively low stress and high-paying.

 

[L&HH]

Does anyone know of a relatively low stress job that doesn't deal with call support? And is also high-paying?

I already have A+, Net+, and am currently skilling up in javascript, java, MERN stack. I will have 4 web projects completed by Aug of this year for my portfolio.

I also have a couple years exp teaching A+/Net+ as well as freelance CMS website experience with a little bit of front-end coding.

At this point, I just need something that's relatively low stress and high-paying.

Get on one of those jobs that uses JIRA for the grant stuff. You get at most 5 calls/emails a day

 

[GollyImGully]

Brehs i know i just started a new job but I had a talk with one of the FAANG companies today recruiter hit my email last week about network engineer role so i just had to see whats up

Apparently imma have to do a coding interview imma have to find a way to finesse this

Sooo I had the coding interview yesterday...

Spoiler: spoiler

I honestly didnt know what to expect going into it. Since it's not a software engineer role. I figured it would be simpler than those SWE type of questions. And I was right

Basically had to parse a text file and return the devices with the highest output.

My solution was to iterate through the file and create a dict with the hostname/interfaces as the key (so they'll all be unique) with the output as the value.

I fukked up because I forgot the syntax to order a dictionary i knew the method to use was sorted(), the problem was sorting a dictionary works different since they are orderless. I needed to use specific arguments in the method but my mind went blank . Looking at it now Im pretty sure thats why this type of question was asked because it looks easy on the surface until you get to the details.

The interviewer knew what I was trying to do and understood I just forgot the args for the syntax. basically his feedback decides if they push me forward

To be honest I'm really only interested because of the potential $$$ day. I can pretty much be setup for life career wise and use the bread to get into real estate start my own business and eventually drop out of the game.

Im not holding my breathe though but it is good experience . I'll update once I get more feedback

 

[Obreh Winfrey]

Sooo I had the coding interview yesterday...

Spoiler: spoiler

I honestly didnt know what to expect going into it. Since it's not a software engineer role. I figured it would be simpler than those SWE type of questions. And I was right

Basically had to parse a text file and return the devices with the highest output.

My solution was to iterate through the file and create a dict with the hostname/interfaces as the key (so they'll all be unique) with the output as the value.

I fukked up because I forgot the syntax to order a dictionary i knew the method to use was sorted(), the problem was sorting a dictionary works different since they are orderless. I needed to use specific arguments in the method but my mind went blank . Looking at it now Im pretty sure thats why this type of question was asked because it looks easy on the surface until you get to the details.

The interviewer knew what I was trying to do and understood I just forgot the args for the syntax. basically his feedback decides if they push me forward

To be honest I'm really only interested because of the potential $$$ day. I can pretty much be setup for life career wise and use the bread to get into real estate start my own business and eventually drop out of the game.

Im not holding my breathe though but it is good experience . I'll update once I get more feedback

Those questions sound similar to what I've gotten before. I'm actually trying to find sooner decent questions to give when I'm interviewing college grads. Difficult enough to weed people out, but not so difficult that I can't solve them myself

 

[GollyImGully]

Those questions sound similar to what I've gotten before. I'm actually trying to find sooner decent questions to give when I'm interviewing college grads. Difficult enough to weed people out, but not so difficult that I can't solve them myself

yeah it was a sneaky one im pretty sure someone with a software eng background would get it pretty quickly

When I first saw it I was like "this is easy as hell "

started coding then the interviewer had a sinister voice was like "you sure that works that way? what arguments does it take? "

me:..........

 

[RealCrownHeights]

Just passed the Security+

This one was for the Mamba

How long you been studying, I just got the book today?

 

[Collateral]

Brehs look at this pawg in my online learning environment

Spoiler: pawg

I don't even like white women like that but this bytch is legit beautiful. Makes watching these borning videos much easier.

Lemme find out there's baddies in IT

 

[thaKEAF]

How long you been studying, I just got the book today?

I started the first week of November. I watched two video courses too along Airbnb the book.

The book is really good I see why everyone recommends it.