IT Certifications and Careers (Official Discussion Thread)

[Mirin4rmfar]

There is a huge demand right now. So get out because we don't know how long it's going to stay this hot

Sounds like it's time to go breh

I think prioritizing work/life balance in our field is very important and I feel like a lot of people over look that. Cant give all of our time to these people

True that but honestly, it's the money that is keeping me interested and wanting to gain as much experience as possible. I getting at Linux and Network troubleshooting. That was my main reason for wanting to stay on the team. The job was great for what they hired me for but too many reorgs, changes, shift of responsibilities and on call. Once I get my CIPM and CISA, I am taking flight.

 

[Mirin4rmfar]

Hopefully by the end of march I can update this thread being both CIPM and CISA certified.

 

[Snoopy Loops]

oh bet you and Lord Z seem to be following the path I want to pursue. Was the developer cert harder than the SA cert?

Just tryna head to down the cloud route. It was bit harder. It focuses more in depth on dev tools like: Lambda (Timeouts, concurrency)
API gateway (stage variables, api caching, CORS),.
Application integration strategies with kinesis, sqs.
Deployment strategies for elastic beanstalk.
KMS and encryption.
Invalidating a cache on Cloud front.
A lot of questions on managing session storage with elastiche or dynamodb.
Random ass API for some services
Cognito and IAM

 

[DAT NICCA KELSO]

Got a fully remote job offer on Friday, I’ll write up my 2 weeks notice sometime tomorrow




I only been at the current gig since October,
the game is the game

Where you asked in the interview why you looking to leave. If so what did you say.

I been at my job since Oct too and about to start looking elsewhere. Not sure what i would say if asked

 

[se1f_made]

Where you asked in the interview why you looking to leave. If so what did you say.

I been at my job since Oct too and about to start looking elsewhere. Not sure what i would say if asked

I told them that I wanted an all remote gig and that I had went in, made my impact and as a result I didnt think that the job would provide the long term challenge that I was looking for.

 

[colicolicoli]

$60k+ helpdesk job and this bih has NO troubleshooting skills or call handling skills. Who hired this lady????

This has been the most annoying training class ever.

 

[Snoopy Loops]

Been perusing for Kaggle (machine learning). Always been hip to the site, but i think they revamped it since I was last there like 6-9 months ago.

Its so much easier to find people's notebooks (code). Might dive back into the data science/ML rabbit hole.

 

[Dre23]

I did solutions architect a couple of weeks ago

Bro! Didnt you do them hoes damn there back to back? How was the SAA? I'm literally taking SAA, Dev & sysops all in March. "March Madness"

 

[Arinam]

I posted to Fiverr looking to do free AWS projects to get some concrete experience since getting certified, but haven't received any hits yet. Anyone know of any resources to find projects/labs to work through?

Is Linuxacademy the best source for that?

 

[Dre23]

I posted to Fiverr looking to do free AWS projects to get some concrete experience since getting certified, but haven't received any hits yet. Anyone know of any resources to find projects/labs to work through?

Is Linuxacademy the best source for that?

Linuxacademy is fcking amazing.

 

[Snoopy Loops]

Bro! Didnt you do them hoes damn there back to back? How was the SAA? I'm literally taking SAA, Dev & sysops all in March. "March Madness"

Lol...I took SAA on the Jan 23rd. Took Dev on Sat. So slightly under a month.

I initially planned on taking it sooner but I moved it after doing a couple of practice tests that humbled brehs. SAA was cool tho, got 901/1000.

I took those Jon bonso practices tests on Udemy.
I started getting 80s on last 2 or 3, so i knew I was adequately prepared. Questions aren’t as wordy as the practice test.

I’m taking sysops middle of March. Godspeed on that shyt tho. I’m just tired of studying this shyt

 

[Dre23]

Lol...I took SAA on the Jan 23rd. Took Dev on Sat. So slightly under a month.

I initially planned on taking it sooner but I moved it after doing a couple of practice tests that humbled brehs. SAA was cool tho, got 901/1000.

I took those Jon bonso practices tests on Udemy.
I started getting 80s on last 2 or 3, so i knew I was adequately prepared. Questions aren’t as wordy as the practice test.

I’m taking sysops middle of March. Godspeed on that shyt tho. I’m just tired of studying this shyt

I bought all 3 practice tests after reading your post. Would 3 weeks be enough time to study for each exam.?

 

[Arinam]

I’m taking sysops middle of March. Godspeed on that shyt tho. I’m just tired of studying this shyt

Good luck on the sysOPs bruh I hear its the hardest of the associate exams. Im going through Stephane Maaerks dev course now and it doesn't seem too bad

 

[Snoopy Loops]

I bought all 3 practice tests after reading your post. Would 3 weeks be enough time to study for each exam.?

Depends on what you get on your first go arounds. They were humbling for me.

Also depends on your background, if you have a more sys admin background, dev might be a bit challenging. You gotta know certain api calls. It assumes you have a done some work dev-like work with platform.

Naturally if you have a more dev background, sysops might be annoying cuz you gotta know services like guardduty, config, ssm and cloudformation in depth

Are you working full time, cuz if you are, it might be tough. I would say your initial scores will prolly let you know where you stand.

 

[Snoopy Loops]

Good luck on the sysOPs bruh I hear its the hardest of the associate exams. Im going through Stephane Maaerks dev course now and it doesn't seem too bad

Thanks fam. I did a sysops practice test and didn’t do too bad for a first go around. It just appears to come down to knowing a lot more services.