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Which IT Certifications Do You Have?

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  • jarjar Patron Provider, Top Host, Veteran
    edited July 2021

    @raindog308 said: The only real test is to have a group of experts set up a scenario and a time limit and watch you go through it in a controlled manner

    That reminds me of the time I made a ruby app that would spin up a DO droplet, put instructions in a readme in /root, email the applicant SSH credentials and instructions, and after X amount of time it would pull bash history and a few other items remotely, assign a grade based on results, write to DB, and email me.

    That was honestly one of the most fun projects I ever did. Never made it live in the hiring process but it did what I made it to do. First time using ruby too, that was kinda fun.

  • AlwaysSkintAlwaysSkint Member
    edited July 2021

    @TimboJones said: .. that can actually do all the shit in vi on a keyboard ..

    Ain't nothin' wrong with vi; that's what I started using in my 1st days of UNIX and still revert to it on a near daily basis. I don't know all the stream editing stuff but happy to dd,yy,p,O,o,$ etc. ;) Vim, nano, pico are too modern.
    Helps to cut down on my trackpad/mouse/trackball induced RSI.
    [People brought up on Supercalc, Wordstar, Lotus 123 etc. are well used to remembering keyboard shortcuts. As said above, repetition is the key. (Bad pun again!)]

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  • raindog308raindog308 Administrator, Veteran

    There is nothing on Unix as powerful as vi (though half that power comes from using shell commands to transform text) other than emacs. I also like emacs.

    Well, when I say vi I mean vim, which has some very nice extensions like syntax highlighting.

    I'd grant that for some development environments, some of the GUI IDEs have finally caught up to where emacs was years ago and surpassed it in terms of productivity - i.e., the formatting, syntax lookup and completion, refactoring, etc. However that's only when working on that particular language for development...whereas a general text editor rocks whether you're editing a .CSV, LaTex, code, or a sestina.

    I can respect SublimeText

  • FranciscoFrancisco Top Host, Host Rep, Veteran

    @WebProject said:

    @Francisco said: certified Crane Operator.

    haha, my license expired over 15 years ago :smiley: required to re-license every two years.

    I do have diploma in software development, CompTIA and 100% agree with above that all certification is pointless as majority of skills learned by daily job.

    Hahah, nah this is a meme from our discord after our first lux crate.

    I have no certs.

    Francisco

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  • jsgjsg Member, Resident Benchmarker

    @raindog308 said:

    @jsg said: I've come to value (or even expect) a candidate having some formal math education.

    Yes. Learning the syntax, tools, etc. is the easiest part of any computer-related work. IIRC Djikstra recommended that anyone studied computation shouldn't be allowed to use a computer until the third year of the program.

    I fully agree. Besides, Dijkstra is one of the very few giants in IT who's pretty much always right anyway.
    In my case Dijkstra's reasoning is just one part though, the other one being the field. In crypto, secure code etc. one doesn't go very far, at least not without bugs and problems, without a solid basis in math.

    There is nothing on Unix as powerful as vi (though half that power comes from using shell commands to transform text) other than emacs. I also like emacs.

    Yeah, and some decades ago I liked Brief. But frankly, I consider vim, Brief, etc. being 6 legged creepy creatures that are actually praised as some kind of "look, I'm hardcore professional" (and the saying that emacs is a fine OS with a poor editor isn't far off).
    One may hate it but the world has gone CUA (the Windows (per)version of it) and I refuse any editor that doesn't use/support at least the very basic Ctrl-C|X|V; an editor must fit into the overall system.

    I can respect SublimeText

    Yep that's nice and one of my favorites. On the console I've come to like dte a lot.

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  • Daniel15Daniel15 Veteran
    edited July 2021

    I have a university degree (graduated in 2011) if that counts? "Bachelor of Science: Professional Software Development" https://www.swinburne.edu.au/app/web-course-planners/files/UG/2013/2013-UG-I053.pdf

    I got CCNA 1+2 accreditation while in high school (for some reason, at my high school we could select Cisco as a course/subject) but never really did anything with it.

    Nothing apart from those though.

  • MrEdMrEd Member

    Personally, I have "Oracle Certified Professional: Java SE8 Programmer", which is a bit pointless, because if you have at least some years of experience, you can distinguish between correct answers and wrong ones.

    I also have "Oracle Certified Master: Java EE6 Enterprise Architect", which is at least real thing. There are multiple steps to achieve it and you have to prepare full documentation for imaginary project, and you are verified by real people.

    I have some plans to get some MS SQL certs, but in this case more for my company, because MS Partner program needs that. Not doing that right now, because of personal life (3 little chaos makers in 6 years appeared :D ).

  • no but dead ass I have a comptia a+ cert, and an associate of science but it doesn't matter. i'm a copywriter, i've written copy that did $140,000 in an hour for a webinar.

  • aliletalilet Member

    Managing Projects with Microsoft Project 2013 Specialist
    Microsoft Certified Professional
    Microsoft® Certified Technology Specialist: SharePoint 2010, Configuration
    Microsoft® Certified Technology Specialist: Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007, Configuration
    Project Management Professional (PMP)

    And these certifications have done jackshit for my career.

  • azeemazeem Member

    AWS Solutions Architect - Associate

    It helps in my use case because I work in a IT consulting company and new clients do seem to have a little more confidence if your team is certified or a partner with the technologies they are working with. For existing clients, it is the work which ultimately matters and not your certifications.

    However, to be honest, since the certification touches into areas which may be not be part of your usual day to day stuff, it gives a much more broader perspective for it - which I found to be very helpful in my case. In the end, getting your hands dirty is all what matters for most. I have mostly self-learnt DevOps basics by lurking in these forums and self-hosting stuff on cheap VPS's bought here. And that knowledge is invaluable.

  • AllHost_RepAllHost_Rep Member, Patron Provider

    Pretty much all the cPanel ones because their "university" training is actually quite useful, in-depth and I work with cPanel every day.

    JNCIA for the network side of things and have dipped into progressing further on the Juniper cert ladder but the next step has far too much material which isn't relevant to my current or future network environment and I've no plans to find a new position elsewhere at a different company so there's no point imo in devoting the time required in obtaining the certificates "for leverage" in the interview process.

  • randvegetarandvegeta Member, Host Rep

    I have a Masters Degree in Lesbian Dance Theory

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  • No certificates for IT except my graduation as an computer engineer. I work pretty much on experiences.

  • jlayjlay Member
    edited July 2021

    I only ever bothered when my employer would pay for it or had trainers on hand

    I managed to get the RHCSA and RHCE this way. Started on the RHCA but the others expired before I got there

    It did very little for me, but I didn't look much either. I got the certs and stayed with that employer for a few years.

    By the time I looked elsewhere, the new employer was more interested in my experience at that place... Than the certs they helped me get

    I recommend the red hat courses because they're great at teaching one how to fish, but I wouldn't get certs to build a resume. A solid presence on Git is worth more, I'd wager

  • Life and the Picles diary cert pass.

  • @jlay said:
    I only ever bothered when my employer would pay for it or had trainers on hand

    I managed to get the RHCSA and RHCE this way. Started on the RHCA but the others expired before I got there

    It did very little for me, but I didn't look much either. I got the certs and stayed with that employer for a few years.

    By the time I looked elsewhere, the new employer was more interested in my experience at that place... Than the certs they helped me get

    I recommend the red hat courses because they're great at teaching one how to fish, but I wouldn't get certs to build a resume. A solid presence on Git is worth more, I'd wager

    You need to earn a certificate in using periods.

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  • jlayjlay Member

    @TimboJones said:

    @jlay said:
    I only ever bothered when my employer would pay for it or had trainers on hand

    I managed to get the RHCSA and RHCE this way. Started on the RHCA but the others expired before I got there

    It did very little for me, but I didn't look much either. I got the certs and stayed with that employer for a few years.

    By the time I looked elsewhere, the new employer was more interested in my experience at that place... Than the certs they helped me get

    I recommend the red hat courses because they're great at teaching one how to fish, but I wouldn't get certs to build a resume. A solid presence on Git is worth more, I'd wager

    You need to earn a certificate in using periods.

    I'll work on it :smile:

    .... dangit

  • I don't have any certification, mainly because it's not my main direction, I'm just a Player.

    I can now use a little C, Python, Go and PHP, Raspberry Pi, IMX RT and other hardware development, as well as a little knowledge of Linux, but also joined the DN42, ready to apply for an ASN to try later.

    I think sometimes it's more fun, the exam complicates things, after all, my job has nothing to do with it.

  • telehosttelehost Member, Patron Provider

    In most cases you don't need a certificate, because persons with high it skill are very rare. So there is no need to discuss about certifications. On the other hand - lots of companies have outsourced their HR and the HR companies have not enough competence to select if you match the criteria or not - so they are asking for certifications.
    Especially for gouvernment jobs in US and CA I suggest to use mile2 certification. A CISSP and a CISSO from mile2 is quite similar in what you are learning, but mile2 the total amount is a bit higher, but better explained - in my opinion. The courses are uptodate with latest software from 2021 and there exists a lot of LABS where you are able to train improve your skills. The questions between i.e. CISSP and CISSO are quite similar, but what I learned was better with mile2 than with isc2. On the other hand - if you are not looking for a gouvernment job maybe isc2 CISSP is better (only during applying for a job), because CISSP is better known by HR agencies. This depends on that fact, that gouvernment did not work with HR agencies, but enterprises did. I am working for both, so I have both certifications.

  • @SirFoxy said:
    Does Pornhub Amateur Verified count?

    not count but cunt.

  • HostSlickHostSlick Member, Patron Provider

    No IT certs. I pay other people.

    Im a Certified Bachelor Professional in Business.

  • I always wanted to be forklift certified, forklifts are cool

  • GanonkGanonk Member

    Teknik Gratistika Certified

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