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Best 5 Certifications to Get...

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  • 19-06-2009 11:21am
    #1
    CorkFenian
    Registered Users Posts: 656 ✭✭✭


    Would be interested to hear what peoples thoughts are on this. From a job point of view and for future etc...


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    hobochris
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    Why only 5?

    and what area are you looking to get into? software developement? networking? DBA? support? Sys admin?


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    CorkFenian
    Registered Users Posts: 656 ✭✭✭CorkFenian


    hobochris wrote: »
    Why only 5?

    and what area are you looking to get into? software developement? networking? DBA? support? Sys admin?

    I dunno thought 5 was a nice number..And more what I could do short term..

    I have MCSA,CCNA was wondering if someone knew of any list as I have seen elsewhere

    Networking/Sys admin

    Torn between doing citrix, MCITPS and Linux + at present..I'll always wind up doing some on all 3 and not really being able to use to job market advantage..


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    Static M.e.
    Registered Users Posts: 3,088 ✭✭✭Static M.e.


    Vmware is rated very high and goes very well with any SAN Cert (EMC have a lot here)


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


    Have a look here

    http://certsandprogs.blogspot.com/2008/12/certification-salary-results-in.html

    Highest earning certs in 2008 were

    Brocade Certified SAN Designer
    Cisco Certified Internet Engineer
    ISACA Certified Information Security Manager
    EMC Proven Professional Technology Architect
    Open Group’s IT Architect Certification


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    r3dh34d
    Registered Users Posts: 25 ✭r3dh34d


    Maybe hmm let see:

    System adminsitration :
    Linux >> RHCA hard to get, few ppl have this. Very expensive.
    Virtualization >> VCDX - not too many ppl have this as well, 'cause first u have to pass VCP where training is mandatory and expensive
    Windows >> MSCE+SM/2008 many ppl have this one

    Network administration :
    CCIE Sec/R&S + Checkpoint - long way to get it
    Other : CISSP


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    CorkFenian
    Registered Users Posts: 656 ✭✭✭CorkFenian


    Thanks for all the replies....


    Would just go for 70-630 and 70-631 in Sharepoint as well..The support side of things...Seems interesting..The other two exams are hard core developer..


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    _CreeD_
    Registered Users Posts: 4,147 ✭✭✭_CreeD_


    It also comes down to :
    What's realistically within your reach within the time frame you had in mind?
    What's actually in demand in your area (check the job boards)?
    What do you have an interest in? (you won't make it to the higher certs in something that you really couldn't care less about no matter how well it pays... You'll burnout first).

    You can't really go by the various salary surveys out there either, they get less accurate the closer to entry level they go.. Besides the fact that a lot of folks inflate their numbers pretty much all of them don't allow for the fact that someone reporting 120K for a CCIE also has a CCNA on their list, so it also gets averaged in with the CCNA results when that is not accurate. (A good case in point is the MCDST listing at $63k, in the US it does vary by region but that would be more like 35K on it's own)


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