Salary Survey Extra: Deep Focus on Okta Certified Administrator
There’s an important and growing niche in IT for cloud identity assurance professionals. The leader in the cloud identity field is Okta, and Okta credentials like Okta Certified Administrator, No. 17 on our …
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Salary Survey Extra: When is an election a sure thing?
In the waning decades of the Roman Republic, a charismatic young tribune named Gaius Marius (destined to become one of the most influential reformers in Roman history) threw the weight …
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Salary Survey Extra: Deep Focus on MCSA: Office 365
Every so often the Deep Focus team lands on a certification that is no longer in service (so to speak). Microsoft has made fairly sweeping revisions to its certification program over the past year …
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TestOut’s release of IT Fundamentals Pro offers new key to unlock tech education
In Season One, Episode One of the long-running CBS adventure game show Survivor, contestant …
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Good personal cybersecurity hygiene can help you stay safe online
In our current culture our lives are completely intertwined with the thriving, evolving, occasionally endangering monument to information technology (IT) known as the internet. On a daily basis we use …
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Salary Survey Extra: Deep Focus on CCNA CyberOps
In June, the Cisco certification braintrust briefly turned into the Grim Reaper, sweeping a scythe through its own long list of certifications. To wit, coming up in February 2020, Cisco will unveil …
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Salary Survey Extra: Average salary for certified IT workers by U.S. state
There are IT jobs in every U.S. state. If you have the right “very particular set of skills” — our apologies to Liam Neeson — and probably especially if those skills are backed by a certification, then you’re …
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Salary Survey Extra: Deep Focus on SAS Certified Base Programmer
Originally organized under a research grant from the National Institutes of Health, SAS has grown into an industry leader in data analysis with a thriving certification program. One of the foundational …
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Certification Survey Extra: Security certification training materials
There are a lot of different ways to prepare for a certification exam. Some tech professionals don’t really prepare at all: Many people come by the knowledge and/or skills needed to pass a certification …
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Security Certification Survey: The high-stakes information security workplace
Security workers have always had an important role in society, but the pay and various working conditions haven’t always been above reproach. In the pre-imperial legions of the old Roman Republic, …
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