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| Thread ID: 102760 | 2009-08-31 11:00:00 | Computer Power Institute | mitchd100 (15190) | PC World Chat |
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| 805659 | 2009-08-31 11:00:00 | Not sure if this is the right place to post this but.. does anyone have any opinion about Computer Power Institute?? I was thinking about doing a Diploma in Systems Technology. Anyone done this course or know of someone who has?? Cheers |
mitchd100 (15190) | ||
| 805660 | 2009-08-31 11:11:00 | Yep-- I did that when the place was called Spherion. ( Plimmer towers) Its all self paced, so you can go as fast or slow as you need - some of the subjects that meant to take a week, I flew though in a day or so, others took longer. Took about 9 months. At the time some of the subjects were damn near rocket science, and would never be used in day to day work. Example: all the gates in a CPU, how they all work - while interesting you cant fix the damn things if they break. If you are in WGTN - ask if they still have "The Hammer" -- ( from my sig) - bit of a story there :D |
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| 805661 | 2009-08-31 11:14:00 | Sweet. Im gonna be doing it in Auckland. SO you would recommend doing it?? | mitchd100 (15190) | ||
| 805662 | 2009-08-31 11:18:00 | It was OK - really depends on what line of work you want to get into. I now run my own business, Service technician - honestly out of the subjects at the time, I have used maybe around 3 -4 months worth - but as I mentioned: some of it was almost rocket science. It had a lot of different subjects that you could carry on from, one for example was web design. I'll have to have a look at the course and see if it has the same subjects - I think they did change them. A lot of the time its also what you put into it - meaning there were a few people there at the time, only just scraping through, while others got quite high pass rates. Some of the subjects really made you think and use the ol gray matter -- they seemed easy at first -- BUTTTTTT :lol::lol: Sorry cracking up here just remembering this --- There was one section on development (I think it was there) you had to describe (in writing) to someone who had never done a certain task how to do it - then a member of the group, following ONLY your instructions and nothing more had to do the task. We were teamed up in 4 -- Our task - describe to someone how to brush your teeth. :D ( easy) wanna bet --:lol: then one of us had to follow the instructions ---- What a bloody mess --- NOT as easy as it first seemed ( was funny though looking back) Lets just say -- read some of my posts -- that's why instructions are sometimes so exact --- See I did learn something :) |
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| 805663 | 2009-08-31 11:28:00 | Im sort of looking into something like a Network Engineer or something similar | mitchd100 (15190) | ||
| 805664 | 2009-08-31 11:38:00 | just looked -- Some are the same - Systems Technology (www.computerpower.ac.nz) Still the same price though. If you have a look at the "Career paths", basically I do bits and Pieces of them all. As well as Self Employed. This course : www.computerpower.ac.nz Information Technology (Advanced Network Engineering) May be more to your liking ?? Forgot to add to the list -- Head Tea boy and bottle washer :p |
wainuitech (129) | ||
| 805665 | 2009-08-31 13:12:00 | just looked -- Some are the same - Systems Technology (www.computerpower.ac.nz) Still the same price though. If you have a look at the "Career paths", basically I do bits and Pieces of them all. As well as Self Employed. This course : www.computerpower.ac.nz Information Technology (Advanced Network Engineering) May be more to your liking ?? Forgot to add to the list -- Head Tea boy and bottle washer :p Very reminiscent of Army Schools where the instructions were hit the end of the nail on the plank sort of. Then amended by turn the nail the other way around. Then if it don't fit then use your sig to advance maybe. |
Sweep (90) | ||
| 805666 | 2009-08-31 21:57:00 | One of the things I liked about the place was the way you did the courses. I cant speak for other places as to how they do things, because never been to them. The courses were modular, as in you did one section, do the exam at the end of that section, all relating to what you should have learn't , then move onto the next - then at the end you did one big exam, containing parts from each of the previous modules. Quite often if the sectione looked to easy and quick, you generally find out its not. Using the toothpaste as an example and sweeps comment Very reminiscent of Army Schools where the instructions were hit the end of the nail on the plank sort of. Then amended by turn the nail the other way around. If you had to give instructions on hitting that nail into the wood - the above would be a fail in the description (I know its not how it would be written). You had to give exact instructions as if the person had no idea what a hammer and nail was, how to hold them etc -- it was designed to make you think. Simple tasks a person does without thinking are not easy to write down sometimes. Some of the content was a bit over the top - interesting to learn - but not practical -- for example as I mentioned earlier - how a processor actually works, with all the logic gates. And there was a couple of questions in the exam. We had to work out the route in a question using the gates - Center picture here (www.pctechguide.com) and all the text gives a basic example. Not that I'd remember them now :lol: |
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