IT - In 2018/2019

[Mp4]

Afternoon all,

I've had the qualifications below since 2004 when I finished college and ended up in a full-time job not using these skills/qualifications. And never went on to Uni.


City & Guilds Level 3 Advanced Diploma for IT
Practitioners (ICT System Support)
Level 2 Diploma for IT Practitioners
Level 2 Diploma for IT Users
GNVQ Information & Communication Technology


While at work today a colleague who works for the IT structure for supermarkets said about Udemy and that paths of Networking/CompTIA, Amazon AWS/Azure are a way forward.

Does anyone have any other thoughts on a new path to take?

looking at the Udemy courses which are currently at £10-20,

 

[Mp4]

Thank you all,

I've always been interested in hardware (back in the day of DOS) when owning an Amstrad 286 as a kid and also playing games, doom, quake. And then going through college again learning more about hardware and building my own pc, learning some networking with win95/98 and then studied for A+ at the time in 2005 but didn't pass the exam and never pursued I.T. and fell into retail work.

 

[Mp4]

Well, I've looked at A+ as some have mentioned having to keep doing it every 3 years and not worth it etc. So decided to look at networks and cybersecurity

 

[Mp4]

I suspect that is flawed - would you not plan to have undertaken some other courses in 3 years time and perhaps progressed past the roles that you'd use the A+ to get - if so why would you want or need to retake it? You still passed it, you can still put it on your CV as having passed it in 20XX and if you've then got some CISCO or MS or whatever certificates since then I doubt anyone would care that you've not updated it as it would surely become pretty irrelevant at that point.

Very true trying to find some courses at my local college but naff all for adult learning

Purchased
CompTIA Network+ Cert. (N10-006): The Total Course. on Udemy as a starting point and anyone have advice on where to start for CCNA? Their are courses again on Udemy too.