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30 April 2005 28 Comments

MCP Achieved

This past week, it became necessary to expedite that which I had already begun to do, if only a little. It became necessary to get an Microsoft Certified Professional (MCP) exam in a hurry — as in, this weekend.
So I have spent most of the past few days cramming for the exam. The trick is [...]

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8 April 2005 21 Comments

MCS* or CCNA

I’m really thinking hard right now about career paths in the I.T. world. On the one hand, I can probably make a fairly good living do systems administration and one day I’ll take the exams I’ve been really gearing toward for awhile, the Redhat Certified Systems Engineer (RHCE), but I find myself working in Windows [...]

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6 April 2005 14 Comments

Network+ Achieved

It’s sort of a moot point since I’ve been handling network issues for well over a year and a half, but it was time to put some paper behind my skills and take the Network+ Certification Exam. On a scale of 100 to 900 with a passing score being 646, I passed this evening with [...]

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1 April 2005 6 Comments

Microsoft Bias

I’m studying for a very basic level certification that I’ve been intending to get for quite awhile. It is the CompTIA Network+ certification. CompTIA provides this cert as an independent certification for basic networking but Microsoft accepts it as one of the modules for it’s Microsoft Certified Systems Administrator (MCSA) certification. To that end, I [...]

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