2014 Certfication Plans

Dieg0M

CCIE R&S # and CCDP

xirtlook

2014
[1] CCDA (January)
[2] CEH (February)
[3] GCIH (May)
[4] CISSP (August)
[5] CCNA DataCenter and/or CCNP Route (Fall/Winter)

Chris O'Sullivan

2014 Targets are:

1 more exam for MCSE 2012 (January)
CCNA
and then look into VMWare certs

101010

End of 2013

- SPSE

2014

- OSCP
- CEH
- RHCSA/LPIC or MCSA

veritas_libertas

@101010: WOW! That's quite a challenging list you have there. Good luck!

bermovick

Hopefully I'll get the CCIE written out of the way before 2013 ends, then work on the lab throughout 2014.

Should that end well, either CCDA/CCDP or CCNP:Security most likely.

xagreus

I'm shooting for CCENT in Feb. then CCNA by May. Hopefully CWNA during the second half of the year.

Here's some food for thought:
18 Hot IT Certifications for 2014

(apologies if the link is old news)

N2IT

Xagreus - That's a decent list actually. Rep +1

101010

veritas_libertas wrote: »

@101010: WOW! That's quite a challenging list you have there. Good luck!

Thanks.

The SPSE, OSCP and CEH are my primary goals.

With the holidays I think my SPSE studies will take me into January. Then I'll jump right into the OSCP with a deadline of May, roll on through the CEH in June/July.

I'll then have to figure out which of the RHCSA/LPIC/MCSA to pursue. I am currently leaning towards LPIC, due to it being focused on Linux as a whole and not a specific distro. Not to mention with their partnership programs the LPIC-1 will also net me the Linux+ and SUSE Certified Linux Administrator certs.

GreenHornet

I've been reading CCNP Switch and watching videos off an on for at least 2 1/2 months and reading books on IDS / IPS, sprinkled in with CISSP. My goal for 2014 is to complete CCNP and then tackle CISSP.

January 2014 -March 2014-- Finish reading CISSP and write in late March or early April
June 2014 --CCNP / Switch
July 2014 --CCNP / Route

tayro12

For 2014 I plan to take up the following.

Linux+
CCNP R&S

Then look if my search for a new job will pay off then decide if the work requires Security/Voice/Wireless technology.

slavetothesound

Picked up my Security+ last week
Just reading an MTA Server Admin (98-365) book and will take that soon.
Starting online CCNA classes through Stanly CC today.
On the waiting list for the VCP class at Stanly for this summer.
Before that I plan on studying for the 74-409 Hyper-V exam that Microsoft was giving away vouchers for.

I just got my first IT job in December and the hours are pretty slow so far, so maybe I'll have time to add an MCSA as well.

broli720

Changed my mind. Might go for my CCNP.

Eston21

My plans for the year are A+, CISSP, & CCNA.

sanrus

I don't know where I will be a the end of the year, but I am working in this sequence.
1. MCSA: 2012
2. CCNA
3. MCSE: 2012
4. CCNP

Iristheangel

Looks like my year has been a bit rearranged by work. Here's what I'm going for now:
CCDA - Done as of a week ago
CCDP
CCNP Data Center

And I'll try to squeeze whatever I can of the CCNP Security in there as well but who knows...

bull313

Iris, don't forget that the current CCNP Security track is retiring in April 2014.

I'm simply looking to bang out my CompTIA A+, Net+ and Sec+. Maybe add the CCENT and CCNA Sec. Only working part time I really have no excuse not to! As I now have plenty of time to

Iristheangel

I know it is which I don't mind. I was looking through the exam materials and the new exams look a lot more relevant to the field than the old ones so I'm not going to rush to get the old exams done. Heck... I could probably sit the SISAS in the next month or two just based on all the ISE work I'm doing. It might be fun to give it a shot and I probably will just to knock out one exam while ISE is EXTREMELY fresh in my mind but I'll definitely be focusing on DC this year.

networker050184

CCIE SP or JNCIE SP I suppose. Ran out of professional level stuff to procrastinate with!

coralreefguy

Ivanjam wrote: »

@coralreefguy - my plans for 2014 seem to follow a similar path to yours:

70-685 - January, 2014
70-680 - March, 2014
70-642 - May, 2014
70-640 - July, 2014
70-646 - September, 2014

Just keep studying! It is easy to get discouraged. I beat my 70-680 and decided to continue studying hard. I'm already ahead of my schedule and hope to pass my 70-685 tomorrow, giving me MCSA a month ahead of schedule. I managed to find new employment starting in February so I want to focus on that for a month or two before worrying too much about certs. I'll jump back into the studying game probably in April.

Good luck

beaucaldwell

1) A+
2) N+
3) S+
4) Linux +
5) CCENT/CCNA

I've been doing site-support at an enterprise level for 6 years so the A+ for me is something I should have done long ago when they offered it for-life still but oh well. I bought the exam cram for this one and have read it already, and am doing the practice questions daily; for the most part is just filling in gaps in what I already know.

After researching on here and other tech forums I've decided to do N+ BEFORE my 2-step CCNA (ICND1/ICND2) to get a basic vendor neutral understanding of networking before diving into CISCO stuff.

I think I want to get into security so the S+ is first up on that list, just not sure if I should do the S+ BEFORE or AFTER ccent/ccna and if I should do Linux+ prior to S+/CCNA... advice on that would be greatly appreciated cheers

Nellis2014

1) A+
2) Network+

Might try to squeeze in Server+.

jabney

Eston21 wrote: »

My plans for the year are A+, CISSP, & CCNA.

I'm thinking A+ isn't worth your time and money. I'd focus on cissp and ccna.

gorebrush

October - CCIE R&S Lab
November - CCDP

Beyond this I have a number of certifications I would like to add to my collection: -

CCIE #2 (I'd like to be doing Voice), VCP, MCSE 2012, Cloud related stuff, and who knows what else...

zepol87

Just starting my certifications. Hoping for ICND1, ICND2, JNCIA, after that I am still up in the air.
We have projects coming up that are using Juniper only. Would you guys recommend trying to complete that cert before the ICND2 or would it be better to finish the CCNA then move to JNCIA?

TylerBarrett

2014 Goal

70-410 => May
70-411 => July
70-412 => August
70-413 => October
70-414 => December

Hopefully I can punch out the MCSE: Server Infrastructure this year. Lots of exams in 11 months so we'll see how they go.

mrkdisk

CISSP hopefully by Spring

ande0255

CCNA Voice, CCNA Security, CCNP R:S, begin CCNP V

MCP2000

MCTS: Administering Office 365 by April 1, 2014
MCITP: SharePoint Administrator by July 14, 2014
MCSA: Windows Server 2012 by August 2014
MCSA: Office 365 by October 2014
MCSE: Private Cloud by December 2014

msteinhilber

This is the year I need to get up and out of my several year long rut I've been in since my divorce. No more excuses, no more loss of motivation and no more complacency as I sit back watching my peers advance while I remain in about the same place I've been for the past 7 years.

I'm on the wait list for the Stanly CC vSphere course, I took the 4.x version of the ICM course back a couple years ago at a local community college and booked my exam and I was in pretty bad shape at that time and it completely slipped my mind. That one dealt me a significant blow and cash was tight and I couldn't afford to pay for another exam before it retired. This time I'm going to knock that one out for sure.

I may or may not take the EMC/NetApp course at the Dallas County Community College, that one ultimately depends on if my employer is willing to fit the bill or not. If I do, I'll at least sit the EMC exam as I have migrated our vSphere environment from local storage to shared storage using EMC hardware last year.

The big one on my list is going to be MCSE: Server Infrastructure. I work in a very strange environment, one where as of yet we still have not been fully leveraging AD throughout our organization of over 50 offices and 1500 users. It's a management nightmare and one I've been pushing to try and solve the entire time I've been here. It's also my largest stumbling block when I gear up to looking at a job change because while I've worked a little bit with AD, I know so little at the same time. So I'm going to get these exams out of the way while simultaneously making sure this is the year I get my boss onboard and we roll out AD.

I hope to have the VCP5-DCV and MCSE: Server Infrastructure nailed by the years end. After that it's not a focus on more certs but a focus on a new job with upward growth.