A Certifications Lead The Way To An IT Career

2007-03-08 10:33:40

( Education )



If you want to master the craft of being a personal computer technician, you need to learn the intricate details of its individual parts, connections, and settings. Even the most basic computer contains thousands of components, each with its own shape, size, electrical characteristics, and so on.

To be acknowledged as a truly competent technician, you must possess complete A certifications. You should remember that A certifications generally serve as the launching pad for any number of career paths. Most IT companies, big and small, look at A certifications as the entry point to IT jobs.

After you get A certified, you will have a number of certification options depending on where you want to focus. Some technicians decide to concentrate on hardware, while others go towards network administration (although these are not really mutually exclusive goals). You should at least take a look at the following possibilities: Network+ certification, Server+ certification, Novell NetWare certification, Cisco certification, and Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer or MCSE certification.

The MCSE certification holds a lot of clout for those looking to work in the networking field, particularly since that company sells a huge portion of all installed networks and those certainly need qualified support people to make them run. But to get to that, you must have your A certifications.

To get A certified, you need to pass two examinations: the A+ Essentials exam and any of the three Electives exams. The first exam is focused on hardware identification, installation, configuration and troubleshooting, although it does include many things from basic CPU and RAM topics, to SCSI and networking hardware. The second set concentrates on the organization, operation, function, and troubleshooting of various operating systems; it also includes the use of command prompts and basic network and Internet configuration questions.

A certifications can be your tickets to a fruitful career in IT.


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