On 7/5/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Benjamin Gramlich</b> <<a href="mailto:benjamin.gramlich@gmail.com">benjamin.gramlich@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<div><span class="gmail_quote"></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
I'm interested in getting my A+ certification. Have any of you taken the<br>exam? If so, do you have any suggestions for a book to use a prepatory<br>guide?<br><br>Also, are there any other certifications that one should acquire in
<br>order to be more marketable as an IT Technician?</blockquote><div><br><br>As a hiring manager, I give zero weight to the A+ certification. So many people have it that I question what value it really represents. Give me two resumes, one with the A+, one without and it won't have any bearing whatsoever on my decision. That said, I don't hire hardware techs, so if that's where your passion lies, perhaps its more useful for you. YMMV and all that.
<br><br>As to your other question, specialized certifications will be (in my experience) far more valuable than generalist ones. Also pick ones that have a decent reputation in the industry. <br><br>By and large, there are very few certifications that I place significant value on because so many of them are textbook certs. (meaning you can earn one by memorizing stuff in a textbook, like the MCSE) Ones that I do place some emphasis on are: CISSP, GIAC, CCIE and, to a lesser extent, the RHCE. (I'm sure there's a lot of other very worthwhile certs -- those are just the ones I know about)
<br><br>--kurt<br></div><br></div><br>