demonfurbie wrote: » gl im waiting till im done with the book before i set the exam time then ill start pretesting/review of weak areas part
universalfrost wrote: » been procrastinating with this cert for some time, but have 2 MS vouchers that expire at the end of the year, so I plan on knocking out 680 on the 5th and then take a week or two and knock out either 685 or 686 (havent decided which yet).... worst is I fail 680 the first go and use the 2nd voucher to get 680 the next week or so... doing well on my practice exams (got my hands on skillport, preplogic, and transcender, plus the questions from the Poulton book) and only thing that keeps giving me fits is DISM and SIM questions.... I always know the answer if only one , not when both are options, but if you throw both in the equation of possible answers my mind goes blank and basically foreget everything I have read.... no clue why this is, but I have to take a break from that section and come back to it later this week.
universalfrost wrote: » funny, My career actually was at where you want to be, but my personal goals/wants have always been wanting to get back to more of a technical nature and also away from the government sector. (plan is to get back up to speed on my networkings certs such as ccnp and jncp and then build up my forensics and security certs and eventually open up my own consulting company to help vendors improve the security of their products and I have enough contacts with the major vendors from previous job, that I hope to make this a reality soon). if you want to go for your CIO type of jobs, then get a good MBA, keep the PMP renewed and also attend professional/ career building courses. Notre Dame's Mendoza College of Business has a good Executive Certificate Program for either Business Admin, or leadership and managment. That will help pad the resume and also learn a few things in the long run. Penn state also has a good MBA program that used to be online if you are interested.
universalfrost wrote: » try out the certificate route first and see how you like it. the masters level is a lot more intense research and writing than a bachelors and if you attend a university that requires a thesis then tailor it for continuation at the doctoral level (my thesis was on agile project management methodologies in the IT sector and I developed a program that PM's could use to input project variables and it would select the best approach for the overall project and then split it up into best methodologies for the sub sections of the project). my university actually still uses my thesis for their PM classes, database classes, and systems engineering classes as an example. I wrote the overall thesis with hopes of continuing on in the doctoral realm eventually (I had to cut short my research at the 1200 page mark and concentrate on the actual program coding, development, testing, etc...) ..... don't let this overwhelm you, my university was a bit atypical and my degree was an engineering degree. when I started my MBA afterwards at another university ( a small baptist university in texas that had a couple satellite campuses in AZ) the mba program was lots and lots of discussions, research papers and the like, i hope to finish it next year (had to put on hiatus for my move to alabama and change of jobs to one that requires about 12hr+ days good luck on the PMP. which book(s) did you use?
