I am getting ready to go after the Server+ certification. My question is should I even bother?
This year I have already earned my A+, Network+ and Security+ certifications. Since the center of any LAN is its servers it seems to make sense that I had also better be Server+ certified.
Would an IT hiring manager hire someone to work around their servers who was not Server+ certified or better? It seems to me that earning this forth Server+ Certification would total the complete package.
I suppose my above questions where rhetorical so my real question is has anyone else considered this slippery slope CompTIA reality?
Straydog
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CompTIA Network+
CompTIA Security+ (2008 edition)
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Straydog
, Mar 29 2009 02:29 AM
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Posted 29 March 2009 - 08:50 AM
Cool!
"Either way you would have to show that you can do the job."
Common sense takes me back to my slippery slope argument.
My certifications show a degree of proof as to my competence but if I can't talk-the-talk during and interview then I have to assume that I would not really be considered for the position. The problem is that by the time I passed my Security+ certification I had become very rusty in terms of my A+ and Network+ subject material. So to do well in an interview I would need to go back and review all that material so I would be ready to carry on an intelligent conversation during the interview.
So here is my point. Since both the A+ and the Network+ material overlap a large percentage of the Server+ certification exam I might as well just study for the Server+ exam and kill two birds with one stone. I would be able to both have an intelligent conversation during the interview and throw-down the weight of having four certifications on my resume.
So I conclude it is a slippery slope because once you have a combination of the A+, Network+, and/or Security+ certifications it would then be a no brainier that you should also pick-up the Server+ certification.
Thank you for letting me think out loud as I talk myself into going after the Server+ certification.
Straydog
CompTIA A+
CompTIA Network+
CompTIA Security+ (2008 edition)
"Either way you would have to show that you can do the job."
Common sense takes me back to my slippery slope argument.
My certifications show a degree of proof as to my competence but if I can't talk-the-talk during and interview then I have to assume that I would not really be considered for the position. The problem is that by the time I passed my Security+ certification I had become very rusty in terms of my A+ and Network+ subject material. So to do well in an interview I would need to go back and review all that material so I would be ready to carry on an intelligent conversation during the interview.
So here is my point. Since both the A+ and the Network+ material overlap a large percentage of the Server+ certification exam I might as well just study for the Server+ exam and kill two birds with one stone. I would be able to both have an intelligent conversation during the interview and throw-down the weight of having four certifications on my resume.
So I conclude it is a slippery slope because once you have a combination of the A+, Network+, and/or Security+ certifications it would then be a no brainier that you should also pick-up the Server+ certification.
Thank you for letting me think out loud as I talk myself into going after the Server+ certification.
Straydog
CompTIA A+
CompTIA Network+
CompTIA Security+ (2008 edition)
Edited by Straydog, 29 March 2009 - 08:51 AM.
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