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Thread ID: 52300	2004-12-16 04:48:00	What should I learn to be an IT?	mister harbies (5607)	Press F1

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303746	2004-12-17 07:14:00	I would also recommend prehaps, a broader skill base, eg do Accounting, that way you could advertise with both skill sets for IT work, & ppl may be happier with the accounting knowledge as well :confused: IT in the business world seems to be working very well lately. Any medium+ firm will have their own servers and IT admin's etc. Good money to be made too! :D	~sy~ (95)
303747	2004-12-18 04:31:00	I agree with Ninja's comment regarding A+. I have just completed a B.Info.Tech degree and most major training institutions I have spoken to over the last three years have steered me away from the A+ and Network+ courses. I also have not found any prospective employers who consider A+ as something worth having. If you are looking at following the networking path I would suggest you look at the Cisco qualifications as they seem to be well regarded by most people in the industry that I have spoken to. I also agree on the comment regarding a scripting language. PERL is a very good multi-platform language and I have found it very simple to use despite being very powerful. :nerd:	southern_jas (4017)
303748	2004-12-18 04:33:00	what about down the hardware path ?	noone (22)
303749	2004-12-18 07:30:00	Everyone and their Mum has an A+ cert, none of the employers I've worked for have paid them any value. Who you think has one aside, an A+ certification legally allows you to operate on PCs without voiding warranty immediately. The A+ certification is a good place to start because it isn't impossible and is quite broad. Granted, there are stupid finicky things that, when I studied it a couple of years ago, no one cared about (i.e. memory address of VGA in old IBM systems). My courses were after school at a local polytech, and covered everything needed. I never sat the actual test though, wasn't grown up enough to take the plunge I guess (I'm an inside little boy). Infact, I used the same book back then as sy suggested - the All in one guide (written by Mike Meyers (not Austin)). It comprehensive and even has a couple of practise exams. But as the others said it does very much depend on where in the industry you want to go. I was so interested in networking that I took the Network+ course and got the certification earlier this year (after which I was promptly put down by everyone I told), and then did a more complex course on switching and routing - in order to sit the Allied Telesyn exams and the Cisco ones too. Then I was distracted by a summer accelerator C++ course, which whet my appetite for programming. Completely different paths, of which I have no idea which to take. (Maybe both.) I intend to get CCIE within good time also... and then there's uni. Well, there's my life story, your turn...	Growly (6)
303750	2004-12-18 09:04:00	with the all in one guide , is the fifth edition the latest one , im going to sit the exam by the end of the holidays but at the moment i only have the third edition , so i think i should get the new one	noone (22)
303751	2004-12-18 09:43:00	all i can say, is that by your age and the knowledge you say you have, i doubt you would make it in IT, if you realy had to ask what quals you should get then you really have no idea what you are talking about. it is a very cut throat business now days as profit margins diminish and the market becomes saturated	Tux (606)
303752	2004-12-18 09:46:00	who are you referring to tux ?	noone (22)
303753	2004-12-18 09:53:00	very first poster	Tux (606)
303754	2004-12-18 09:59:00	Be interesting to know your age Tux, Something of a child i would guess, The age of the thread starter has nothing to do with his ability or drive. And going by his profile he is barely out of his teens..... :rolleyes:	Metla (12)
303755	2004-12-18 10:11:00	:rolleyes:	alphazulusixeightniner (185)
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