Salary Survey Extra: Deep Focus on MCSA: Universal Windows Platform
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 couple …
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Salary Survey Extra: What’s your non-monetary compensation?
Our discussions of what certified IT workers earn generally center around a number on a paycheck (or series of paychecks). Salary, after all, is the most visible, most directly quantifiable element …
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The CertMag Team Wishes You a Happy Labor Day
Like many other workers in the United States, the members of the CertMag team are enjoying a day off from work in observance of Labor Day. We will return to our normal schedule and activities …
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Salary Survey Extra: Deep Focus on CompTIA Network+
For aspiring computer networking professionals, earning the Network+ certification offered by tech industry association CompTIA is sort of like completing basic training after joining the Army. The …
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Certification Survey Extra: Profile of certified networking professionals
Three times each year when one of our certification surveys rolls around — the fourth survey of every calendar year is the annual Salary Survey — we gather data about certified professionals …
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Salary Survey Extra: Deep Focus on Red Hat Certified System Administrator (RHCSA)
Red Hat (and, by extension, parent company IBM) has an enviable leg up on the entire open source …
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Certification Survey Extra: Big Brother is watching?
About a week ago we stumbled across a brief BBC News story with the unexpected and at least somewhat improbable headline “Apple helped make ‘top secret’ iPod for U.S. government.” …
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Take the 2021 Salary Survey and get a FREE digital subscription
Is it money, or the milk of human kindness that makes the world go ’round? Trick question: Information technology (IT) makes the world go ’round. And successful IT requires smart people who have a …
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Salary Survey Extra: Deep Focus on ISACA CISA
What does a certified information systems auditor do? There’s a succinct and engaging discussion of this unique and important IT role at GoCertify.com, and the author of that piece recommends …
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Certification Survey Extra: Incoming! (via the Internet of Things)
In the early history of the Roman Republic, the statesman Marcus Furius Camillus was appointed dictator and sent to take command of the drawn-out Roman siege of the Etruscan city of Veii. …
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