Comptia and MCSA? What jobs are possible to get?

Bchen2

With 2 years of help desk experience and a degree?

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srabiee

CompTIA what? MCSA what? A degree in what?

NetworkNewb

Well what do you want to do? Could list hundreds of "possible" jobs... Better to work towards a specific goal in mind.

markulous

srabiee wrote: »

CompTIA what? MCSA what? A degree in what?

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And I'll add, what type of responsibilities at a helpdesk? Was it just password resets or did he troubleshoot servers and networking equipment?

Bchen2

markulous wrote: »

And I'll add, what type of responsibilities at a helpdesk? Was it just password resets or did he troubleshoot servers and networking equipment?

Bachelors of Arts in Computer Technology

Comptia Plus Cert

MSCA : Windows 7

Help Desk Responsibilities

Password Reset
Printer Set up
Computer repair
Desktop Imaging
Remote Support
Setting up outlook client

No server or network maintenance thou

markulous

You can try to see if you can squeeze into somewhere that you could be like a "junior sys admin" where you can have more server stuff if that's what you're gearing towards. If you want to go networking, then I'd probably be working on a CCNA and trying to get into a NOC.

nster

Bchen2 wrote: »

With 2 years of help desk experience and a degree?

What jobs/fields interest you? Work towards jobs you want

You can go Server-side, Network-side, Security-side etc, and within those are different roels as well, a Network Administrator vs a Network Architect will have very different jobs