Carrier in certification

[jonnitwo]

Hello
I want to get a certification in networking.
Please tell me the scope or carrier in networking certifications.

 

[A.Nonymous]

What kind of certification and for what purpose? Networking is fairly broad. I read networking and I just read wiring, switches, routers, etc.....

 

[poriggity]

I'm working at my MCSE certs, and CCNA certs. May do a network+ cert eventually too..
Scott

 

[Martimus]

I'm working at my MCSE certs, and CCNA certs. May do a network+ cert eventually too..
Scott

If you're following a Cisco CCNA track then don't bother with the Network+ cert... it covers many of the same topics as the CCNA.

Nowadays the networking field encompasses WAN, LAN, SAN, security, some elements of software development, Web servers, and even some System Administration. This is a great change from the days when I first got into networking... back then it was pretty much WAN and LAN only. I look at Cisco IOS today (the real IOS ) and it looks much different than it did when I laid my hands on my first Cisco AGS+ router.

Compared to modern Cisco gear these beasts are now true museum pieces!

 

[poriggity]

If you're following a Cisco CCNA track then don't bother with the Network+ cert... it covers many of the same topics as the CCNA.

Nowadays the networking field encompasses WAN, LAN, SAN, security, some elements of software development, Web servers, and even some System Administration. This is a great change from the days when I first got into networking... back then it was pretty much WAN and LAN only. I look at Cisco IOS today (the real IOS ) and it looks much different than it did when I laid my hands on my first Cisco AGS+ router.

Compared to modern Cisco gear these beasts are now true museum pieces!

That's some cool stuff! Yeah.. the more I research network+ the more I realize I won't really need it. I am still trying to decide what I want to specialize in, but security really peaks my interest right now..
Scott

 

[A.Nonymous]

Security is a good field, but good luck finding a job. I don't know of any companies here that would hire a security specialist. Most of the people I deal with pay lip service to security but are way, way more concerned about being user friendly.

For example, we have doctors at one of our clients who want to carry patient records around on a thumb drive from site to site and office to office. If they go from their office to the hospital or vice versa, they want to carry those records with them. In order to be HIPAA compliant we provided them with a couple of the uber-secure thumb drives the military uses. They're encrypted, require a fingerprint and/or password to open and are virtually hack proof. The doctors hated having to type a password just to open their files and went out and bought some cheap 2-4 gb drives from Wal-mart. They now use those to carry patient records around. Most of the other companies I work with are the same way. You can tell them they need to enforce long, complex passwords, but then they complain that it's not user friendly. You can tell them not to give their passwords out to everyone, but they complain that's not convenient.