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Cert in IT networking (Part time)- GMIT

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  • 31-08-2016 8:09pm
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    Dante79
    Registered Users Posts: 46 ✭


    Hi,
    Has anyone experience of this course? I am considering starting this course next month in GMIT. The course runs for one evening a week for two years and work experience at the end.

    I have a qualification in Electronics thats over 10 years old, so i am hoping to do this course as way to get back into IT/Electronics. I am currently studying at home for NETWORK+ Certification to see how i like it and its going fine. I aim to complete a CCNA after i complete the course. Would this be enough to get me working in IT networking? Any advice would be appreciated. Thanks
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    summ3rbay
    Registered Users Posts: 4 ✭summ3rbay


    CCNA is a great qualification and great grounding in everything else. Work experience will the key as to whether you get a job out of the course- hopefully it might be with a employer who is willing to take you on afterwards and invest in you educationally. It can be hard enough these days to find solely network orientated jobs and if you stop at CCNA you would need to get MCSA/E to work as a field tech with a small firm IT supplier.

    To work with larger firms CCNA while a absolutely great qualification would just be enough information to get egg on your face when the do-do hits the fan in larger BGP/MPLS corporate network infrastructure and these days CCNP would be essential. Even at that you would need again to be a multi-tasker and know you way around data-centre and virtualisation with a VM-WARE cert.

    Ever since Sony/North Korea hacking incidence security is now a bigger importance so CCNA-Security would be a cert worth chasing. CISSP if you really want to specialise in security.

    CCIE is any discipline is the doctorate of Certs. A 3 hour written exam and an 8 hour lab exam in Brussels weeds out the exam cram monkeys and if you were to achieve this qualification you can still look at 80,000 plus euro a year.

    Total dedication and some people have gone from zero to CCIE in less than 2 years. There is one drawback with networks - you go to the mountain as networks demanding full time network professionals do not travel to you, and travel will become a big part of your life


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