IT Thread 2018 | Cert Gang
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Thread is for general IT topics. We have a programming thread, but I thought this could be useful for everything else. From certifications, news worthy IT items, questions, etc. Troubleshooting as well.
I'm personally back on track towards my RHCSA (Red Hat Certified System Administration) cert. Also looking at a few others as well, primarily in the Security field. Also just bought a large Networking book that's broken down into 9 smaller books.
What yall working on?
I'm personally back on track towards my RHCSA (Red Hat Certified System Administration) cert. Also looking at a few others as well, primarily in the Security field. Also just bought a large Networking book that's broken down into 9 smaller books.
What yall working on?
Still thinking about getting a badass router if my current one starts to annoy me again. Diehard showed me a company called Fortinet and they have some great wired routers. Granted, they are mainly focused towards businesses, but hey! Having one inspect all my packets for malicious traffic at 100 megabit speeds is pretty cool! FortiGate-60E
I've been needing to get a CISSP for a couple years now and haven't done it yet, largely because it's an inch deep but somehow massive pile of jargon with very little information that would either be redundant, useless or pointless review. It'd be a perfect capstone on the ole resume though.
I have to renew all my professional level Cisco certs next year, too, and I'm working on a bunch of stuff for our company's vendor certification regarding Palo Alto firewalls.
It's amazing how bitter you get about doing this stuff when you've been in the game this long.
I have to renew all my professional level Cisco certs next year, too, and I'm working on a bunch of stuff for our company's vendor certification regarding Palo Alto firewalls.
It's amazing how bitter you get about doing this stuff when you've been in the game this long.
By Christberg Go To PostI've been needing to get a CISSP for a couple years now and haven't done it yet, largely because it's an inch deep but somehow massive pile of jargon with very little information that would either be redundant, useless or pointless review. It'd be a perfect capstone on the ole resume though.
I have to renew all my professional level Cisco certs next year, too, and I'm working on a bunch of stuff for our company's vendor certification regarding Palo Alto firewalls.
It's amazing how bitter you get about doing this stuff when you've been in the game this long.
I had a networking position a while ago, and was preparing for my CCNA before I was moved to a different role, but I really enjoyed networking, hence me buying a book a few weeks ago.
Networking is absolutely some of the best stuff you can get into, and it's a great base if you're going to get into security later. Lots of consulting work still out there for it and you get a great sense of accomplishment from being able to point at a big stack of iron, cat5 and fiber and say "I built that."
Only thing I'd caution you about is that the big guys all want you to know SDN/virtualized networking these days which is pretty damn ass backwards from how regular hardware networking functions.
Only thing I'd caution you about is that the big guys all want you to know SDN/virtualized networking these days which is pretty damn ass backwards from how regular hardware networking functions.
I'm currently going through this book
rhcsa = red had certified system admin, ce = certified engineer
in combination with a rhcsa prep course on linuxacademy.com to take the test, hopefully sometime soon. these are practical, lab based tests. no multiple choice or fill in the blanks. you can either do it or you can't, so these certs are held to a higher standard in the linux world for that reason. there's like a 50 percent fail rate on the rchsa for first time takers lul.
rhcsa = red had certified system admin, ce = certified engineer
in combination with a rhcsa prep course on linuxacademy.com to take the test, hopefully sometime soon. these are practical, lab based tests. no multiple choice or fill in the blanks. you can either do it or you can't, so these certs are held to a higher standard in the linux world for that reason. there's like a 50 percent fail rate on the rchsa for first time takers lul.
I got some of the usual certs like A+ and Network+ (joke ones) and one from ITIL and a VMware one.. But it's been like 5 years. Too busy at work to spend time on it and I'm too lazy when I'm off work. I have a decent amount of experience with BSD but really need to learn Linux better.
By diehard Go To PostI got some of the usual certs like A+ and Network+ (joke ones) and one from ITIL and a VMware one.. But it's been like 5 years. Too busy at work to spend time on it and I'm too lazy when I'm off work. I have a decent amount of experience with BSD but really need to learn Linux better.
Been telling folks, it's one of the hottest areas in IT. I'm on HPC and everything in that industry runs on Linux. Plus a ton of other backbone stuff that most people have no idea about.
By Dark PhaZe Go To PostHow do I remove this Amazon you win some shit forced redirect malware on my iphone slaent?
Mobile adblocker? Is there a uBlock mobile?
By Smokey Go To PostBeen telling folks, it's one of the hottest areas in IT. I'm on HPC and everything in that industry runs on Linux. Plus a ton of other backbone stuff that most people have no idea about.If you do web dev you basically have to learn linux. CLI versions anyway. So most dev's know it to some extent.
really been trying to level my knowledge up a bit lately, but it's so time consuming.
HPC interests me because i'd love to do some programming at that low a level. Doubt i'll ever get the chance though.
Going to SC 18 (Supercomputing 18) -> https://sc18.supercomputing.org/
Get to pick out what I want to go to. Will do business stuff and then some personal things I find interesting. There's a ton of shit there from Tutorials, workshops, to Paper talks, and panels.
Get to pick out what I want to go to. Will do business stuff and then some personal things I find interesting. There's a ton of shit there from Tutorials, workshops, to Paper talks, and panels.
