Who here has certifications?

I've done done my JNCIA-FWV and JNCIA-SSL exams and passed them.

list what you got and if its something you use for work or just wank factor :]

I've got the juniper firewall and ssl, clearswift mimesweeper, ironport mail appliance and doing the exams next week for Radware appdirector. My CCNA has lapsed now and i CBF renewing it as rarely deal with cisco stuff anymore.

cue e-penii

I just received an honorary WTFRC yesterday.

I saw typo in an olive mu-mu ... I should get a certificate for that ... surely ...

clearswift mimesweeper

You have a cert for playing minesweeper?!

MCSE: Minesweeper Champion, Solitare Expert

i want to get my ISWYDT

I suppose if cert's were useful I might get some.. for now I'll stick to my honorary Reverend Certificate.

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I saw typo in an olive mu-mu ... I should get a certificate for that ... surely ...

A olive woollen mu-mu thank you ... and it was f***ing cold, ok!

:)

I'll be getting a ITIL foundation cert next year, wooohoo, yeehaa, yipee, or whatever is the most accurate deceleration of that potential achievement.

haha, im doing ITIL certification sometime soon

we are teh smarts typo

i didnt bother with certs, i just got a bachelor instead

scary, I was oging to make a thread like this right now, but mine was more along the lines of where are some good institutes to do some certs for CNA/CNE/MCP/CCNA, mostly the CNA.

What's people's opinoins of Execom ? CAn any one name some others they have had experience with ? Thanks

I have an MCP and MCDST go useful certs!


/sarcasm

I've done Introduction to 9i PL/SQL, Linux Essentials & RHCT, yet to do RHCE

i want to get my ISWYDT

ISWYDT




im doing a certII in business, and starting a cert 3 in IT client support next year

There's a university offering masters degrees in specific IT fields that includes certification. It's offered through Charles Sturt University: http://www.itmasters.com.au/index.htm

I'd always held off against doing any certification, particularly MS, since they were such a joke. But MS is tightening up the exams, and they are becoming harder. A lot more scenarios than just straight rehash-the-marketing questions, with a focus on the kind of problems people face in enterprises.

From hiring people myself i realised that you need some way to get through all the applicants and some people will just throw those without a degree and certification to the side just to get through the numbers more easily. It sucks, but to miss out on a good contract because i wasn't bothered to sit a couple of straight forward exams is pretty crappy. I know i know my stuff and i've got a degree in computer science, but if i can't get to the interview because i don't have these pissy exams done then i'm don't have a chance at that contract. So to avoid being thrown to the side i've started doing the SQL Server exams.

Did the first two SQL2000 exams in March and June this year, with my first SQL 2005 exam on Tuesday.

I wouldn't pay anyone to teach me. Those Microsoft Official Curriculum courses usually put me to sleep and the trainers don't know s*** + they are expensive and you have to take time off work as they generally only run them business hours. Just grab one of the study guides, follow that, sit a practice exam and away you go.

Don't know what i'd do in a case where i was doing the cert to get a job though, without relevant industry experience it'd be tough. If you are not dealing with the technology every day i think some of the scenario based exams that will be hitting next year will be very difficult.

Got my CCNA certs mailed to me the other day.

i got a bachelor but by the looks of thing will need a ccna at some stage :(

Haha.

I have Cert III in Music Technology (Technical Production) :P

Looking to get my MCP and MCSE next year.

Wonder if they have a Mac equivalent of MCP :P

Got my CCNA certs mailed to me the other day.

Booyah, is the exam hard? I have done QUT's prep courses (ITS701 and ITS702 I think) and did OK in both...not great, but I didn't put much effort in.

The person looking for good place to do CCNA course QUT was OK...the lecturer for my second one was terrible but all the course material is available on Internet (from Cisco and from QUT). No need to actually attend the lectures. And they offer it to people outside the uni.

haha, im doing ITIL certification sometime soon

we are teh smarts typo

Apparently mine is on the 29th of January. It’s like birthday present from Boeing.

i didnt bother with certs, i just got a bachelor instead

Yeah, unless I was focused at doing Sys-Admin I don’t see the long term value of doing certs. The problem I have with spending money on certs is the bootstrapping courses that essentially do weekend/weeklong cram sessions to cert people but not teach them.

What's people's opinoins of Execom ? CAn any one name some others they have had experience with ? Thanks

We uses them often here. I don’t know if that means anything though.

u work at boeing?

i know a few peeps there in IT

paul burman (just came back from adelaide office)
totally demon cricketer

and one of our ex staff here is a technical writer (teehee) over there
funny little azn bird hillary

how bigs the IT force there?

we have a relatively new IT boss and ITIL gets him wet
as i run the internal support desk he wants me doing ITIL for change management and stuff

i have cert for going to the AA meetings every monday nights which is on just next to the pub after happy hours... been going for past 5 years... master cert coming soon..

u work at boeing?

Yep.

paul burman (just came back from adelaide office)
totally demon cricketer

and one of our ex staff here is a technical writer (teehee) over there
funny little azn bird hillary

I don’t know them off hand, but there is a pretty big crowd of people here at Boeing house.

how bigs the IT force there?

That’s hard to say. There’s about 70 people in Information Systems. However individual projects have their own IT staff.

we have a relatively new IT boss and ITIL gets him wet
as i run the internal support desk he wants me doing ITIL for change management and stuff

ITIL seems to get a lot of people here wet. The logic seems ok, the only problem I have with it is it seems to, or at least we seem to, try and change the corporate culture to fit within ITIL, instead of having some sort of middleware solution that suites our terminology and current practices.

I’m not that fussed with the implementation of the product we have to move us towards being ITIL compliant.

I know a couple guys/maybe 1 chic @ Boeing :)

I know a couple guys/maybe 1 chic @ Boeing :)

Lots of good people here.

Booyah, is the exam hard? I have done QUT's prep courses (ITS701 and ITS702 I think) and did OK in both...not great, but I didn't put much effort in.

Coochie, that's what i meant. I didn't actually do the certified courses but i did the prep courses at QUT. You and i prolly did CCNA 3&4 together with Loo Tang the hopeless gook being lecturer last semester right? I didn't attend the lectures and didn't put much effort in either and got straight 5's. I heard the actual certified ccna exam is easier then those prep ones offered at QUT so i dont know.

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I just got my CCNA cert.

Did the course at UQ. Was pretty good, plenty of real equipment to play with in the labs (and they just bought a s***load more)

http://www.its.uq.edu.au/index.html?page=28693

what's ITIL?

ah

ITIL
IT Infrastructure Library

British Govt Standard for IT operations (if i remember correctly).

yer, british governemnt is all over it

its spreading to our government and large business's here as well

everyone gets wet over ITIL. QUT have just implemented it and i want to learn it so i can earn phat lewt just for saying i have ITIL

Coochie, that's what i meant. I didn't actually do the certified courses but i did the prep courses at QUT. You and i prolly did CCNA 3&4 together with Loo Tang the hopeless gook being lecturer last semester right? I didn't attend the lectures and didn't put much effort in either and got straight 5's. I heard the actual certified ccna exam is easier then those prep ones offered at QUT so i dont know.

Yeah he was terrible. Nice guy, but hopeless teacher. I got a 5 also. Didn't attend lectures also after I realised how pointless they are. I had Ricco Lee for CCNA 1&2 - he was heaps better.