IT Certifications and Careers (Official Discussion Thread)

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Started the cybersecurity analyst job yesterday and pretty much sat there with 2 other dudes watching Youtube vids while 2 suspicious emails came in from other countries and that was it. Its a crime to make this much $$ for not doing shyt

Gonna try to get on the monitoring team in a few months to mess around with the IDSs/IPSs

And my shift is avoids all traffic

This post is my motivation......can’t do this retail shyt for long

I am studying for the sec+ right now and have a Masters in Information science with one year of help desk experience

 

[Trustus]

I just passed the Sec+ 800/900 after putting it off until the last day before my voucher expired. I didn't think I was going to pass while taking the test (question worded weirdly ) I got 5 performance base questions and still got over 81 questions to answer. On to CCNA or CySA+ or CEH/Pentest+

 

[I AM WE ARE]

I just passed the Sec+ 800/900 after putting it off until the last day before my voucher expired. I didn't think I was going to pass while taking the test (question worded weirdly ) I got 5 performance base questions and still got over 81 questions to answer. On to CCNA or CySA+ or CEH/Pentest+

Comptia security 501??

 

[Steel]

You seen this article?

The cloud skills shortage and the unemployed army of the certified

On job boards there are a lot of positions for "seniors and managers" with multiple years exp and hardly any entry level cloud positions. I mentioned earlier in this thread from my perspective while in the industry most positions are lateral. Meaning companies simply promote "system admins and developers" to work on their cloud projects. Not saying its impossible to find an entry level cloud position but it seems difficult. Especially for those with NO it experience. Just getting an aws cert doesnt seem to be enough without desktop support/system admin/dev experience to find a cloud role.

 

[Trustus]

Comptia security 501??

Yes it was for the 501.
Resouces I used was testout.com, Professor Messor notes, Our Courses – Dion Training, for practice test CompTIA security plus review guide exam sy0-501 to review the material. I did what @Rawtid (good lookin out for dropin that piece of knowledge) said she does with video content which is read the transcripts of the video at your own pace. I saved a pdf file for every video on testout.com that saved me so much time. It allowed me to study at work or on brack without having to watch a video.
Once you have a grasp of the content take as many practice test as you can to get used to the way that they prose questions

 

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just got the Gibson book for the Sec+ 501 but gonna finish the Messer vids first

 

[I AM WE ARE]

Yes it was for the 501.
Resouces I used was testout.com, Professor Messor notes, Our Courses – Dion Training, for practice test CompTIA security plus review guide exam sy0-501 to review the material. I did what @Rawtid (good lookin out for dropin that piece of knowledge) said she does with video content which is read the transcripts of the video at your own pace. I saved a pdf file for every video on testout.com that saved me so much time. It allowed me to study at work or on brack without having to watch a video.
Once you have a grasp of the content take as many practice test as you can to get used to the way that they prose questions

just got the Gibson book for the Sec+ 501 but gonna finish the Messer vids first

Im using those plus the udemy course and making flash cards. I gone schedule my test in August. I got side tracked by doing my CNA to bring money in.
I'm hoping I'm not over thinking this test. Im going start doing the labs as well.

 

[Trustus]

Im using those plus the udemy course and making flash cards. I gone schedule my test in August. I got side tracked by doing my CNA to bring money in.
I'm hoping I'm not over thinking this test. Im going start doing the labs as well.

Make sure you study the labs that have server logs and know how to recognize IOC(indicators of compromise). Know how to create an ACL for a firewall, how CA's (certificate authority) works along with VPNs, perfect forward secrecy, certificates and digital signatures. Also know the alternative names for the tools or subjects that might go by a different name. CompTIA loves to ask these stupid ass questions if you remember them that's extra points for you. For example, they ask which ISO they list 4(ISO numbers nothing else) is another name for security? I was not expecting them to ask something like that, it was the furthest thing from my mind. As I flip through this Gibson book it hits on a lot of the
questions I saw on the exam. Also, the notes from this reddit post are decent.

I think we got the same test bank of questions his experience pretty much is the same as mine.

Spoiler: reddit advice

 

[African_brehda]

Anyone here in the telecommunications field? I'm trying to enter the field via certs. I didn't study telecom engineering in college, I studied IT, how hard will it be?

 

[I AM WE ARE]

I can't find my notes or the lab on url redirection ie someone is trying log onto Facebook but you redirect them say, YouTube
Can any of y'all help

 

[Kwabena]

Anyone here in the telecommunications field? I'm trying to enter the field via certs. I didn't study telecom engineering in college, I studied IT, how hard will it be?

Just like IT, there's A LOT of jargon and acronyms that you need to know like the back of your hand

 

[EnzoG]

Anyone here in the telecommunications field? I'm trying to enter the field via certs. I didn't study telecom engineering in college, I studied IT, how hard will it be?

I'm an internet support specialist for a telecom company with my A+ working on my Network + what is your job title you're perusing or have??

 

[Mirin4rmfar]

Just like IT, there's A LOT of jargon and acronyms that you need to know like the back of your hand

You made a thread about working in a soc but I am going to reply here.

Working in a soc - one of the quickest way to grow your networking and security skills. You will learn tons. You will learn so much because not one day is ever the same.

The bad - 24/7 on call rotation. It is horrible to be honest with you. You have to wake up at 3:00 am etc. Cant go out that weekend. Shift work, seniority will get you the best shift. So 8 to 5s are not available.

Being the highest tier gets stressful because it gives lower tier teams an out so they will take it.

Anyways, it's a sacrifice, you work there for two to three years, get those fundamental networking and security skills and certs and move on.

 

[African_brehda]

Just like IT, there's A LOT of jargon and acronyms that you need to know like the back of your hand

I'm an internet support specialist for a telecom company with my A+ working on my Network + what is your job title you're perusing or have??

I'm supposed to join a project team, writing reports and shyt, but since I don't have any prior telecom experience, I've been asked to take courses in Fibre and BTS installation...but I don't have a proper math or physics background...will that be an issue?

 

[EnzoG]

I'm supposed to join a project team, writing reports and shyt, but since I don't have any prior telecom experience, I've been asked to take courses in Fibre and BTS installation...but I don't have a proper math or physics background...will that be an issue?

Idk BTS installation(what's the acryomn for?) But my day-to-day duties involve assisting customers in rebooting modems, making sure email settings are correct(port numbers are key in this) looking at certain charts to help determine internet issues such as drops, speed issues, VPN's not working etc. I deal with fiber, dsl, and cable connections I hope this helps.