Mac OSX Courses/Exams

LeJosh · 10 May 2011 at 16:52

Currently the office I've just started working in today use Macs and I was wondering how similar Mac terminology usage is to Windows terminology etc.

I've already done the MCDST for microsoft and passed and I've got my HNC in Windows Computing, how much of this could be applied to learning macs etc?

The courses/exams I was thinking of doing was 9L0-403/510 (which are called snow 101/201 respectively.)

Would it be wise to go ahead with these exams and courses or should I just wing it and apply my windows based terminologies to the test.

Have any of you done these certificates?

PardonTheWait · 10 May 2011 at 19:19

I've done support essentials (Snow 101) it's very good, and definitely worth doing imo.

LeJosh · 10 May 2011 at 20:18

That is the one I'll be doing plus with the Snow 202 for server administration stuff.

It would look good on my CV to say I'm both Windows and Mac affiliated too I imagine.

squerble · 10 May 2011 at 21:31

Yup, done Support Essentials too (101). Hope to move onto Server (201+) once my employer fancies coughing up

LeJosh · 10 May 2011 at 22:02

I hope the courses aren't like: "this is how you drag a file."

I understand they're for supporting users and 202 is server side. I've done a technical support course but only on a windows platform.

PardonTheWait · 11 May 2011 at 09:09

I found it really good, some is very simple and some quite complicated, there's quite a lot of command line stuff in there. I found it useful either way, and I've been using Macs for 8 or 9 years.

LeJosh · 11 May 2011 at 10:00

That sounds good, I only know Windows CLI.

Having both Windows and Mac will be beneficial.

Thanks for the comments.