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Just passed CCNA today and I’m absolutely speechless that I did.
Spade
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Pretty high but not to difficult if you do labs, use flash cards, and a have great instructor. I also recommend doing practice tests and I recommend Boson ex sims practice tests. While it doesn’t have the same questions as the actual test, the wording of questions is nearly the same and gets you prepared.
My biggest advice is stick to the objectives. The test absolutely was all about those. I actually skipped a lab if I remember correctly but attempt them anyway because you do get some points off of them using the correct commands. However never spend to much time on them.
Striving For Greatness
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Thanks Bruhcongrats
Congrats
I’m pivoting from Education to IT. This is great information in here, brehs.
I’ll be taking the Google Support Professional Cert course at my local community college, starting next month. Having an instructor will help me get my feet on the ground. I’m doing other online learning independently, too.
I plan to start out in a help desk role, but I’m unsure what I’ll do to progress further. I took a career quiz on the CompTIA website, and it said my skills are compatible with web & mobile development, although I have little to no coding experience. I have always been good at learning things I put my mind to, but it has been a long time since I’ve undertaken such intensive & focused learning. I’m pretty nervous, but I know I have the ability inside me.
I am open to any advice and encouragement. I’ll share info I come across, too.
I’ll be taking the Google Support Professional Cert course at my local community college, starting next month. Having an instructor will help me get my feet on the ground. I’m doing other online learning independently, too.
I plan to start out in a help desk role, but I’m unsure what I’ll do to progress further. I took a career quiz on the CompTIA website, and it said my skills are compatible with web & mobile development, although I have little to no coding experience. I have always been good at learning things I put my mind to, but it has been a long time since I’ve undertaken such intensive & focused learning. I’m pretty nervous, but I know I have the ability inside me.
I am open to any advice and encouragement. I’ll share info I come across, too.
I wouldn't put much stock in that comptia quiz.
Just ask yourself honestly, what do you want to do and why.
If you want more money and flexiblility and you are good at math and logic games, you should probably look at coding and being a developer. The best place to learn coding is a technical college as they teach you practical coding, not the theoretical horseshyt you get at a 4 year university. So if you really want to go that route skip working on a help desk and just code and make coding projects do hack challenges and etc. That can become your portfolio and the US government would definitely hire you as a civilian or contractor, ie getting a clearance.
If you aren't really big on coding or just don't like it, you have your IT Ops side and that can be server admin, network admin, working in a SOC or NOC, ISSE and etc. In that case do work on the help desk side so you can see how your actions have effect from the bottom up, you will learn the stupidity of users as well as the stupidity and general ignorance of your network and serve folks and management. Unfortunately there is no future in help desk and they isolate shyt so much now I can't advise anyone in good faith to do help desk for more than 6 months to a year as there just isn't any value in it.
GRC is another side, its the political/management side of the game. If you have a technical base all the better and you stand out because technical people hate this side. Thats why I went in this route. You know and love learning new concepts and have experience but you want to implement policy guidance, security goals, and have input on purchasing but not do any technical work anymore or only be the last option for implementation come this route. Issue is you need experience but this route is centered on experience and certifications and degrees. So you want to advance this route you will need a 4 year degree and graduate degree. The more degrees the better even though they have 0 application as its more a C-suite entry path to CISO or CIO realm. CISSP, CISM, are the main certs PCI-DSS certifications and Auditing certs as well. You will read logs and make shyt up to management to support your whims but most likely you'll just be the person called in to justify what management wants with tech jargon. You have to have intigrity in this field though and accept your rise is limited if you have integrity to only a few places business wise that appreciate it, but if you want to get to senior leadership just be a yes man and in this branch that will get you very far very fast.
Best of luck to you though man, and if you want a more naunced take send me a PM and I'll do my best to help.
Rembrandt
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Passed my A+ in 3 months through that one thread/bootcamp thing I posted but I'm currently going through net+ and Jesus Christ.
Granted, a lot of life things fukkin with my ability to study but it's way denser especially subnetting. From reddit and the professor messer discords, it seems Net+ is the hardest outta the 3. Just tryna get this done so I can get my sec+ one and pivot from there.
Finally get some hands on experience with this though. Landed a job as MS365 Technical Support Engineer so gonna stick with that for a lil as a network, get some experience and plot a roadmap for the future
Granted, a lot of life things fukkin with my ability to study but it's way denser especially subnetting. From reddit and the professor messer discords, it seems Net+ is the hardest outta the 3. Just tryna get this done so I can get my sec+ one and pivot from there.
Finally get some hands on experience with this though. Landed a job as MS365 Technical Support Engineer so gonna stick with that for a lil as a network, get some experience and plot a roadmap for the future
Rembrandt
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I can help you with the WiFi and mobile stuff if you want. And cloud computing.
Probably some others on there but I promise you the wifi stuff isn't gonna be as hard as you think once you get somewhat familiar with the differences - it's a lot of nuance but it's definitely obtainable.
Got a few wordwall games and whatnot that'll help. Just lmk.
I think I also have some flashcards on Quizlet I can share.
And thank you @Striving For Greatness, I really appreciate the it! Was a huge relief
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Striving For Greatness
Get Certs or Die Tryin
Congrats!
Rembrandt
the artist
Congrats!
Thank you, bro! Went through a death in the family and everything but glad to have a good support system that kept encouraging me!
Trying to make up for some lost time before I hit 30 lol
@David_TheMan and appreciate that! Imma check those out now. May have to drop out of my lil cohort right now and try again later this year once I'm in a better headspace and able to actually study at home. Gonna do a lot of studying and reading outside once the weather gets nice though
Rembrandt
the artist
You got this bro!
Comptia 1102 - Teaching resources
Power & Sleep Options (Desktops) - Comptia 1102 Filesystems - Windows Commands - Comptia A+ 1102 - CompTIA A+ 1102 Windows Command-line Tools
wordwall.net
But specifically:
Comptia A+ 1101 2.3 Wireless Network Standards
Group sort - Drag and drop each item into its correct group.
wordwall.net
Really helped me with it. Good with windows/Linux commands?
I got lucky with my test that I didn't have too many printer questions.
