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Further exams post college

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  • 07-01-2007 1:57pm
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    Peter B
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    I have finished college (BA Computer Science) and am now job hunting. I'm finding it difficult enough to get a job since most of them require 1-3 years experience.

    Trying to further my knowledge and am thinking of doing further IT exams. Heard of MCSE exams. Anyone know where I could find more info on them or other IT exams which may be beneficial?

    Cheers


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    Ginger
    Registered Users Posts: 2,931 ✭✭✭Ginger


    You can do a raft of them.. depending on what you are doing career wise and what programming languages and platforms you use

    Microsoft's ones are

    MCSA - The sys admin role, if you are doing windows admin
    MCSE - Is the SysAdmin track + 2 more exams
    MCDBA - DB Admin route
    MCAD - Application Developer role, if you are a programmer the starting point on the MS track of programming languages
    MCSD - Solution developer, the architect level or senior developer type (MCAD+2 exams)

    The MCAD & MCSD are .NET 1.1 qualifications, the new ones for the .NET 2.0 are MCPD with 3 different qualifications within it,, Enterprise Apps, Web Apps and Client Apps

    Now there are other certifications for programmers.. I am fairly sure that Sun have a Java one and there are multitudes of companies bring out certs (even Dell for their B2B stuff)

    You can find out more about the MS exams at http://www.microsoft.com/learning


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