Certification goals for 2016

4_lom

MCSE: Private Cloud
MCSE: Messaging
Recertify CCNA

NOC-Ninja

Completed:
CEH
CCIE-Sec written

Future:
CHFI

TranceSoulBrother

NOC-Ninja wrote: »

Completed:
CEH
CCIE-Sec written

Future:
CHFI

Really? why? do you have a free voucher from work?

JoJoCal19

NOC-Ninja wrote: »

CHFI

Unless this is a requirement because you're doing the WGU MSISA, I heavily advise skipping this one.

bettsy584

Cert grabbers - used to be one myself.

Now it's about doing certs that you use every day. Otherwise its a waste of;

time
effort
energy
memory
your moral
personal life

30+ certs deep I am only now maintaining the ones I use

DatabaseHead

Bettsy agreed......

bettsy584

Yes, I am glad I've got certs from Microsoft, VMware, Citrix, Cisco, Google etc as it helps me as a consulting architect.

Nothing is more impressive to a client if you are discussing Office 365, they happen to mention an issue with Citrix and you can offer on the fly advice about it based on a cert/lab experience you did 3 years ago

But going forward I like playing golf and scuba diving far too much to be a cert grabber anymore.

E Double U

GCIA for sure, maybe CEH.

cristinabalan

I have quite a bunch of certifications on my own and some of them are not put to best use due to the lack in demand or not knowing the real demand. Recently I have stumbled upon a startup that might help you too get notice on the certifications acquired and why not, see what others have interest in getting certified as. Keep in mind it is only at the beginning, but might be of value in few years and might be glad to be with me among early adopters : https://www.xpertr.com/register/

iBrokeIT

cristinabalan wrote: »

I have quite a bunch of certifications on my own and some of them are not put to best use due to the lack in demand or not knowing the real demand. Recently I have stumbled upon a startup that might help you too get notice on the certifications acquired and why not, see what others have interest in getting certified as. Keep in mind it is only at the beginning, but might be of value in few years and might be glad to be with me among early adopters : https://www.xpertr.com/register/

I don't join shady looking websites with a SSL certs that has been expired for a year and half.... especially when there are free options available like Let's Encrypt. If they can't get their SSL cert right in over a year and half what else are they getting wrong? Pass.

Verities

iBrokeIT wrote: »

I don't join shady looking websites with a SSL certs that has been expired for a year and half.... especially when there are free options available like Let's Encrypt. If they can't get their SSL cert right in over a year and half what else are they getting wrong? Pass.

Quite ironic when you regularly post to a web site that doesn't even use SSL.

9bits

Verities wrote: »

Quite ironic when you regularly post to a web site that doesn't even use SSL.

Oh...oh...oh...burrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrn

Giv2

My goal is to get an HTML 5 certificate and finish my course in BootStrap.

H@low

A+
network +

xxxkaliboyxxx

you guys doing this in the next 3 days?

alexkurban

For this 2017 I want to pass:

CCNA R&S
LPIC
Comptia security

And if I have time get MCSA or VCP6-DCV. Which one of this 2 is better for security orientation?

SteveLavoie

I took VCP6-DCV to maintain my older VCP certs. 2 weeks ago, I took my SSCP. I am working on my CISSP for late Q2. In May, I will be at VeeamON for VMCE training and probably wrote the test onsite. Q3 and Q4 will be for MCSA/MCSE on Server 2016

Greg2822

I would like to finish my WGU bachelor's degree within my next term(starts next month) and I need to knock out the following Cisco certs to accomplish that:

CCENT
CCNA:R&S
CCNA:Security

I am unsure of the difficulty of these exams but I'm going to try and squeeze them in before the year ends if I pass my Cisco exams in time:
CEH
CHFI

gespenstern

LOL, it would be fun to necropost here on if we accomplished what we wanted. I honestly reached exactly zero of my goals... Too much stuff was going on last year...

DoubleNNs

DoubleNNs wrote: »

1) AWS CSA Assoc
2) AWS Developer
3) AWS SysOps
4) RHCSA
5) Half of the CCNA DC (to renew my CCNA)

Time Permitting:
6) MCTS: Active Dir 2008
7) RHCE

I did none of this. I had already passed my 3 AWS exams by the time I had posted this last year haha. AND I let my CCENT and CCNA expire this year -- what a shame.
Hopefully I'll do better this year with following through with my goals. I'm about to revive my RHCE thread from last year.

Mike7

Mike7 wrote: »

Tentative targets for 2016 are certs with C in them.

1. CCSK
2. CCSP
3. eCPPT
4. OSCP
5. MCSA 2012

Did not achieve all my targets as I changed job in end 2015 and did a bit of post grad studies.

I did pass CISA in late 2015, got GCIH in 2016 and picked up hands on experience with ESXi 6, Juniper and a couple of security appliances. So far I have obtained ECSA and CCSP in Q1. CCSK is no longer a priority; I see job postings asking for CCSP but not CCSK. I intend to focus on pen test certs this year going for eLearnSecurity, CREST before diving into OSCP late this year. Hey, it seems that CompTia may even come out with a pen test cert.

Fadakartel

Huawei HCNP
Cisco CCDA
Cisco CCDP

then i`m moving towards my Msc in network security

Hopefully in the future depending on how things goes ill either pursue Juniper or Cisco for SP stuff (id rather go Cisco SP)