Goals for 2016

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I'm moving abroad to the US next year, so will probably be taking a year off from the certs to get the ball rolling in my new job.

However, this year's been good. Got my MCTS in ConfigMgr and MCSE Private cloud

 

For me 2016 will be a game changer.

Goals :

Aim is to do A+ and N+ and ITIL and get myself an entry level job in IT.

 

For 2016:

CCNA Security
F5 201

In addition, I would like to complete an entry level course on penetration testing. Not necessarily looking to get a cert out of this; just want to learn the basics out of curiosity. In order to protect the network, you must know thy enemy!

 

Lol to finally get my A+ so same goal as last year and the year before

 

Apart from the more obvious pen testing certs like CEH, OSCP etc. these two cover some nice basics and are not meant to be too intensive:

Metasploit
Ethcial Hacking

 

Yeah will probably never do one again, not really my area any more and they have far too many and change every month.

 

Thanks Rob, the EXIN Ethical Hacking Foundation exam looks good. Just need to find video / book resources to study from. Haven't found any yet.

 

I thought I would of had the A+ by now but that has not happened yet. so next year i'm really going to go for it and do the following:

A+
N+
Security +
Maybe try to bash out one or two Microsoft or Cisco certs

I'm still in two minds at the moment aswell as I'm not sure if I want to go down the Network or Security career path.

 

My first aim is Windows 10 MCSA . They have just announced it today and the two Windows 8.1 exams are part of the certification and there is one more exam that you need to get the MCSA.

 

Interesting, looks like i'll be doing a cert path after all now i know this

 

Why not become a network security engineer.

 

Talk about timing, my objectives have just this second changed ha ha.

• 2015:
  • Failed the 70-680 which in turn really affected my confidence for the Network+ and Linux+ which I wanted to do. As well as the 70-686.
  • July, I managed to wrangle a new job (Totally out the blue, and I thought I didn't stand a chance of getting it anyway),
  • Started in September and passed Probation a week early so that's all good.
    
• 2016:
  • Linux+ as no-one in my team is Linux certified and as I am the only IT covering the London offices, I NEED this.
  • Network+ as I need to improve my networking skillset,
  • I have just been informed that for me to touch our switches, I need to have a CCNA. So that has just been added to my objectives.
  • On a personal note, I am already learning to code in Python which is great fun.

Looks like I have quite a busy 2016 lined. That should take my mind off getting married in December next year ;)

 

I can't remember if I polluted this thread last year... But I actually did what I intended this year - MCSA svr 2012 and an Exchange MCITP.

At the moment I am trying to pick up Python and my main obj is to stick with it far enough that I actually make use of it. Realistically I will probably downgrade to Powershell, which is much more important for me, but mildly dull.

I'll probably certify on some stuff - whichever seems most pressing out of Exch 2013, Office 365, Citrix, or VCP I imagine. Although now I want to do that Metasploit thing, because that seems much more fun.

I may not have finished with MS certs yet. But I have cracked the spine on the last of my MS Press books, I am completely fed up of studying just towards the exam only to realise I haven't learned anything of practical value for 3 months.

As ever, this will also be the year I finally write my First Great Novel (an event that has been predicted more times than the Year of Linux on the Desktop).

 

So next year my goals are as follows.

VCP6 if I don't manage it this year (yes I have a couple of weeks to go). Passed that today
VCAP's (DCD / DCA and VCIX NV).
I may also look at the VCP CMA (Cloud)
Linux+ and perhaps the LPIC1 as I need to strengthen my Linux skills.

I doubt very much I will be going down the Microsoft route of exams ever again.

 

Lets see, now's the time to see where things fell over due to general life:

MCSA 2012 - didn't progress past the first have of 70-410.

Other 2015 positives though: got health issues under control, finished settling back into the country

2016 Goals (keeping it simple):

LFCS - already got the course / exam on the anniversary discount and time limited until Aug 2016 so this is a must.

 

Got the 685 booked for January just in time for the second shot. So hopefully get that. Then onto MCSA: server 2008. I'm thinking if I can get 640/642 done by June, then I'll do 689 before it retires in July, then move onto the 646. If time permits before the end of the year I'd like to get linux+/security+ too. Then onto CCNA, But I think 2017 is a more realistic timeframe for that.