IT veteran... Where to now...
SUBnet192
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I am 41, have been working in IT all my life (21 years now) and I have always loved working with technology.
My experience has been mostly with Microsoft products, and in the past 6 years with VMware as well. I recently completed the CCNA certification for 'fun' as I never had much exposure to that side and I enjoy it.
As a consultant working for a big firm, I am now trying to move more into an IT architect position as opposed to operations/sysadmin role.
I have time to study, and I enjoy learning stuff. What do you think would be a good training plan? I'm more of a generalist than a specialist but I find it gets very tedious to keep on top of all those technologies
My current certs:
MCITP:EA
MCTS: HyperV
VCP 2/3/4
CCNA
Security+/A+
Plus a bunch of expired ones... MCSE NT4, MCP Windows 2000 etc...
My experience has been mostly with Microsoft products, and in the past 6 years with VMware as well. I recently completed the CCNA certification for 'fun' as I never had much exposure to that side and I enjoy it.
As a consultant working for a big firm, I am now trying to move more into an IT architect position as opposed to operations/sysadmin role.
I have time to study, and I enjoy learning stuff. What do you think would be a good training plan? I'm more of a generalist than a specialist but I find it gets very tedious to keep on top of all those technologies
My current certs:
MCITP:EA
MCTS: HyperV
VCP 2/3/4
CCNA
Security+/A+
Plus a bunch of expired ones... MCSE NT4, MCP Windows 2000 etc...
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NinjaBoy
Member Posts: 968
You could look into the ITAC certification program.
You state that you're a consultant. You may qualify for level 1 or 2, then work your way up from there.
I'm not sure about price for it now a days, when I looked into it a few years ago it was more than what I wanted to pay (besides I didn't have the indepth experience that they require imo).
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SUBnet192
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You could look into the ITAC certification program.
You state that you're a consultant. You may qualify for level 1 or 2, then work your way up from there.
I'm not sure about price for it now a days, when I looked into it a few years ago it was more than what I wanted to pay (besides I didn't have the indepth experience that they require imo).
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My view of architecture is more in solutions design i.e. technical aspect vs "enterprise" architecture where you provide general orientations etc... Thanks for the suggestion though. -
SUBnet192
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I am already ITIL v3 Foundation certified (and that was plenty enough for me lol)... CISSP? Not enough experience in security to go for that one.
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laidbackfreak
Member Posts: 991
CISSP? Not enough experience in security to go for that one.
Don't bet on that, if you've been working MS for last 20 odd years you'll probably find you qualify.if I say something that can be taken one of two ways and one of them offends, I usually mean the other one :-)
