IT Certifications and Careers (Official Discussion Thread)

[psgchisolm]

Yo whats good bruhs? I have been peeking into this thread, I'm currently working for an online retailer with customer outreach, social media outreach, emails etc. (entry level shyt)

My company is offering us scholarships to continue our education (obviously with a position/career within the company). I got my AA a few years back, and since most of the jobs my company offers are tech related, I might as well take advantage but I am limited in the paths I can choose.

I checked out a local state college that offers a bachelors program in Security & Network Assurance and theres another program for Database Administration.


Any advice y'all boys can share?

Got no certs, nothing of the sort, this would be a new career path and I just wanna be six figures like yall lol.

Does the cirriculum align with any certs/programming languages?

 

[colicolicoli]

Good lord, if I have another 40+ call day I'm going to put a bullet in my head.

I can't do this helpdesk shyt any longer. My pay is great but nah.

I gotta get my security+ asap.

 

[Steel]

Good lord, if I have another 40+ call day I'm going to put a bullet in my head.

I can't do this helpdesk shyt any longer. My pay is great but nah.

I gotta get my security+ asap.

I remember those days taking 30+ calls a day being tracked by some stupid ass adherence system. Getting QA scores fukk that I’m never going back to helldesk

 

[calixprynce]

Might be off topic but my job failed our ASV Scan .. I got a thick ass packet of fixes they want me to apply so that we pass. So ... How tf do you upgrade to jQuery 3.0?

 

[Obreh Winfrey]

Might be off topic but my job failed our ASV Scan .. I got a thick ass packet of fixes they want me to apply so that we pass. So ... How tf do you upgrade to jQuery 3.0?

You take a vacation and hope somebody else did it while you were away

 

[calixprynce]

You take a vacation and hope somebody else did it while you were away

Lol nah them old mfs gone let me handle this. I guess our company site is using jQuery 1.12.4 right now and that’s a no no .

 

[Obreh Winfrey]

Lol nah them old mfs gone let me handle this. I guess our company site is using jQuery 1.12.4 right now and that’s a no no .

Not knowing anything about jQuery, I don't think it's going to be as straightforward as they think. Sounds like it might require code changes if any of the APIs changed over the releases.

 

[calixprynce]

Not knowing anything about jQuery, I don't think it's going to be as straightforward as they think. Sounds like it might require code changes if any of the APIs changed over the releases.

Right I don’t even got my ccent yet and these mfs swear I’m a hacker computer engineer from helping them with printer problems and pos Systems

Now the TLS and SSL v3 shyt I think I can tackle with our SonicWall application. But the jQuery shyt got a Severe classification of the AVS compliance bullshyt

 

[chargers31]

Just finished my associates degree in cyber security taking sec + soon then some Cisco certs. Are interviews just talking or actually performing tasks?

 

[Rice'N Beckford]

Passed the security+

Working on the CySA+ now

Any brehs take this yet? My mans passed it couple months back but I want other ppls exps

 

[JT-Money]

Anyone taken and passed multiple SANS certifications? If so which ones are more in demand?

GCIH
GPEN
GREM
GMON

 

[Mirin4rmfar]

Just finished my associates degree in cyber security taking sec + soon then some Cisco certs. Are interviews just talking or actually performing tasks?

Talking but the technical interviews are solely done to see if you understand what you are talking about.
At your level they may just ask explain the DNS process, what is the port number for https/Http/FTP etc. How do you ssh into a device? What is a jump server or bastion host? shyt like that.

 

[Silkk]

Good lord, if I have another 40+ call day I'm going to put a bullet in my head.

I can't do this helpdesk shyt any longer. My pay is great but nah.

I gotta get my security+ asap.

I remember those days taking 30+ calls a day being tracked by some stupid ass adherence system. Getting QA scores fukk that I’m never going back to helldesk

Gahdamn Thats some call center ass shyt right there


Think the most I ever averaged was like 10-15 per day on helpdesk.

 

[Balla]

Gahdamn Thats some call center ass shyt right there


Think the most I ever averaged was like 10-15 per day on helpdesk.

Was your title different or something? Did you work late nights?

10-15 calls a day doesn’t sound too bad.

 

[SanchoPanda]

Ok I need some help. Applied to a computer technician job for a school district out here in Los Angeles. They sent me an email saying there’s a test requirement and gave me links for practice and study guides. You guys know of any other sites?

Thank you