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Work have said I can go on a course of my choice. I'm pretty good at my job already and have a clear path to work up so don't actually need a course but obviously it's a brilliant thing to have on a CV and will help me later (and it'll be free to me!).

I'm currently a Senior Network Technician. Only me and my boss cover 1 site which has 2000~ users and about 750~ computers and then I manage 2 seperate sites that have 200~ users each and about 100 computers in my evenings.

Now I can't decide between a Microsoft course or Cisco.

I was thinking Cisco is probably going to be better and was looking at a CCENT.

Has anyone done one of the Cisco courses or Microsoft or something similiar.

Any opinions/advice?

Thanks
 
You're a 'Senior Network Technician' and you've never been on a Cisco or Microsoft course? :confused:

How did you manage that?
 
'Senior Network Technician' and you're thinking about doing a Cisco Entry qualification?

Your job title is misleading.
 
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It's the job title, don't blame me.

I've been here 2 years~, have a degree and worked my way up very quickly. We don't run a vanilla network so most of my training and stuff was learning the software that controls AD and not actually learning much hands on networking.

I have no idea which course to do or what is entry level or good.

Or even if the Cisco is the right course to do.
 
"this software that controls AD" as in...MS Server? I'm confused!

I sounds very basic the role you do so maybe start on something like the Comptia N+ or Server+ (A+ is very basic!) and then move onto CCNA and MS Certs?

I say Comptia as there actually very good and count as electives for the MS Certs ;)

if you havent even ran a config on a cisco i wouldnt do the cisco, try and get some hands on then do the ICND1/2 Courses...

Good luck :)
 
Difficult to know what would be tailored to you. AD isn't anything to do with networking.
 
Think some clarification on your role might be needed.

Do you deal with Routers, Switches, VLANs, DMZs, VPNs and Firewalls for example?

The Cisco courses are very much sought after in the market place.
 
Almost certainly depends on what you are going to be working with or what you would like to do in the future.

The Cisco qualifications would be great, and the ones I would go for BUT I wouldn't say the courses were necessary to obtain the qualification. The CCNA CBT Nuggets are great and with practice should easily give you the ability to obtain the CCENT qualification if not the CCNA itself (Which IMO is not particularly difficult exam and a great starting point).

If you're employer will pay for these alongside another course then personally, that's what I would do. You could end up with both a MS & Cisco qualification.

*I should add, once you move up the Cisco path towards NP & IE level the courses are most defiantly worth the investment IMO*
 
CCENT would be a bit easy for someone with your experience I would have thought - start with CCNA.
 
My current job is at a school, so our entire network has RM over the top of it. Most of the low level stuff is done by this software and I'm left to deal with other stuff like packaging, users and such. Software side I don't really deal with any networking, hardware I'm obviously in charge of the switches, our firewall (Surrey LEA Cachepilot) Wireless and such.

I'm more than capable of doing the job but I have been offered a course of my choice and am well aware I probably won't work in a school forever with this sort of RM software.

I was hoping to find a course that if I get another job in networking will give me a head start and will look good on the CV.

I've never touched a Cisco system or piece of software/hardware but thought the courses they did were for all types of networking and looked good on the CV?

At the moment it's looking like I'll get 1 course (early next year) 100% and then potentially another course of my choice in a year. They are very keen to develope so as long as it is seen to be helping my job it'll be fine.
 
PRINCE2 project management opens up a lot of doors for you. It's one of those things that a lot of bigger companies look for and filter CVs over.
 
Jonny69 said:
PRINCE2 project management opens up a lot of doors for you. It's one of those things that a lot of bigger companies look for and filter CVs over.
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Looks like more of a Management course, due to my job and employer paying it needs to be heavily networking or IT related really.
 
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MSCE looks pretty good, anybody got one of these or know about them?

Also do I have to find somewhere/one that is offering the course as cannot find pricing or where to do it on the MS website?
 
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