Online certification training advice request

[sugarplumkitty]

Has anyone used quickcert.com for preparing for certification tests? My certifications were from my local community college and are outdated. I'm currently between jobs and having a tough time finding work. Current certifications from Microsoft, CompTIA and Cisco would help. The recent reviews online for quickcert are mixed. The older ones are

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[sinistertim101]

Hello former LJ Friend. :-)

MY certs are outdated and that hurts for finding work. I noticed employers are cool if I want to update my skills just by helping a few friends and building my resume that way. I have independent work and skillsets that shows I am relevant (assume you have no steady job with current technologies). A good VM like virtualbox with some downloaded versions of Exchange and Server help too where you can add them under skills in your resume helps. Exchange 2007 for example was so complicated that I could not just go over it a week in class. MS has 190 day downloads too for non production use for training and evaluating and there are many books out there. I also have a key for VMWare for a trainers license I can give privately if you like. VMware is great if you have 8 gigs of ram. I can run up to 4 or 5 Windows 2k3 servers with various IIS and exchange servers on it to learn plus server 2012 is very VM friendly and low ram requirements too (I plan to try it out in a few days).

I hope that helps

[sugarplumkitty]

Thanks Tim. VMWare is free now, isn't it? I have a system with 16GB RAM, so I know it will handle the load. If I could find the MOAC textbooks for Server 2010, I could work through them. Maybe they're out now. They weren't when I lost my job last February. Server 2012? Already? wow.

[sinistertim101]

Just the player. I do not think you can do things like make one server a DC with a host and then add other VMs with a host adapter to that domain.You need virtualbox to run several instances at once or the workstation product (I can privately give you a key). These are Important step in simulating any virtual environment. With 16 gigs you can run many servers. I have been out of work on and off for a year longer so I know how it is

[degreesprogram]

For professionals, the ambition to go back to school, there is good news: You do not have to restart from the beginning! This is where life experience comes in. The foundation of life experience degrees and certifications, what you do in your life that is somehow related to a certain degree. Getting a life experience degree programs is equivalent to saying that you are not formal classes to participate in the field, but you have to in-the-field training, meaning, and makes up for what you have learned from textbooks and lectures. Most life experience has been reached in work environments, as you move up the ladder try in a particular area of ​​your career. There are times when a person tends to hit a ceiling in his career where the higher authorities would not encourage him or her no longer, simply because they do not have a degree. The organizations for which you work, then you start for the people below you on the positions you want, just because the candidate who has been promoted has a degree.