How much am I worth?
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Everyone
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networker050184 wrote: »As much as you can talk someone into paying you. Thats all it comes down to really.
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Turgon
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^^ This for sure.
This is true. Whatever they pay you, the job will be the same, except if you convince them to pay you a little more than they are comfortable with but will concede to, be as good as you say you are! -
NightShade1
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No it was not hard to pass, i took it with no wireleess experience i just study for the exam and that was it. After the ACMA then i started implementing aruba solution.
I have no idea how you keep it current besides form taking the ACMP
Anyways i just looked at Arubas Forum
This is what it says
"Sales Specialist (Partner-only cert) is valid for 2 years. Technical certs are valid for 3 years. For ACMA and ACMP, you simply retake the current version of the exam. For ACMX and ACDX we are working on a written recertification exam that will be ready the second half of 2012. If your cert has or will expire in that time (ie it is 3 or more years since you passed), you will have 6 months after the release of the recert exam to pass, after which your cert will expire."
So i guess you would need to retake the ACMA but then you will need someone from Aruba to give you the link to do the online exam. -
networkjutsu
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NightShade1 wrote: »No it was not hard to pass, i took it with no wireleess experience i just study for the exam and that was it. After the ACMA then i started implementing aruba solution.
I have no idea how you keep it current besides form taking the ACMP
Anyways i just looked at Arubas Forum
This is what it says
"Sales Specialist (Partner-only cert) is valid for 2 years. Technical certs are valid for 3 years. For ACMA and ACMP, you simply retake the current version of the exam. For ACMX and ACDX we are working on a written recertification exam that will be ready the second half of 2012. If your cert has or will expire in that time (ie it is 3 or more years since you passed), you will have 6 months after the release of the recert exam to pass, after which your cert will expire."
So i guess you would need to retake the ACMA but then you will need someone from Aruba to give you the link to do the online exam.
Cool, thanks. I did the opposite. I implemented the WLAN first before taking the class. Hah! I had to talk to Aruba TS a lot to implement some of the things I missed. Some of the things were intuitive enough for me to figure out but something like implementing Backup SSID with WPA2 so when the controller goes down (no secondary controller) they can still go out to the Internet. They didn't really give me enough time to take class and then implement it. When I joined the company, it was already on their plate to implement WLAN and had a deadline so taking the class wasn't possible. Though, I could've pushed for the class first though. Now, the configuration is a mess and hopefully after the V-IAW class I'll be able to clean it up a bit. -
cgrimaldo
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Can you elaborate on " adding commercial value"?What you can make largely depends on what you can do for a company. Your career is still young and for a while you will be a wrench turner. So you want to find out what they earn. But then you want to move away from that kind of work. IT support is increasingly industrialised now, at least in perception if not in reality. When that happens, the wages fall. Whatever you do in IT over the next five years, you want to be adding commercial value to the company you work for, as opposed to just being really good at closing tickets. That stuff is important too, but in the eyes of the people running IT these days, they can always find someone cheaper to do that.