As far as I am concerned, I think going with independant vendor independant certifications like CISA, CISSP, PMP, ITIL etc are the way to go. I myself hold MCP, CISA and PMP and think that the non-vendor specific certification are more beneficial than vendor specific. On 7/21/08, Eric F Crist <ecrist at secure-computing.net> wrote: > > On Jul 21, 2008, at 9:47 AM, Aaron wrote: > > > A lot of you guys are in the IT industry so I thought it might be a > > good idea to post here to see what experiences people have had with > > getting their IT certifications locally. I'm looking at getting some > > of these under my belt so I can move off of the dreaded Hell Desk > > onto more engaging and exciting areas. So I guess my questions are > > this: > > > > 1. Have you gotten any certifications locally before (A+, MCSE, > > RHCT, CCNA, etc, etc)? > > 2. Where? > > 3. Did you take classes or just tests? Which would you recommend > > doing? > > 4. Any literature that you remember helping you out? > > 5. What was your general feeling of the process? > > > > Any help would be greatly appreciated! > > Here's my small tidbit of advice, limited as my experience may be. I > have my CCNA - it did nothing for me other than make me fairly > knowledgeable. If you end up in a network engineering roll, higher > Cisco certs will probably be good for you. As far as MCSE, most IT > folks I know laugh at it. I don't know if Windows shops are different > - never working in one myself. > > Other than that, experience is your best friend. It would probably > serve you well to get out of the big-company environment and go small > time for a couple years. There are a ton of small 10-50 man shops > around in need of full-time IT, even if it's only one person. Get in > somewhere like that and do a good job. Anyone, given some free time, > can get a certification. > > --- > Eric Crist > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > -- Smile!!! :) It improves your face value... Visit me at http://www.dharwadkar.com http://www.dharwadkar.org Sister Site: http://www.saraswatibhuvan.org -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20080721/ebed9009/attachment.htm