Certification Survey Extra: Who's covering the cost of certification?

Certification is different for everyone. Some individuals study for weeks or months before attempting a certification exam. Others learn what they need to know by working in a professional IT ...

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Job profile: Become a Python developer

Originally developed more than 30 years ago by Guido van Rossum, the Python programming language has steadily grown in popularity across the intervening decades. Python currently holds the ...

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Certifications vs. certificates: Creating a new alignment between TestOut courseware and CompTIA credentials

When we go to a doctor’s appointment for a health-related concern or hire an electrician to ...

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Salary Survey Extra: Deep Focus on ISACA CISM

It's almost poetic that the biggest, still-unfolding information security incident of 2023 to date appears to have been triggered by a vulnerability in MOVEit ... a secure file transfer product that allows organizations to ...

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Salary Survey Extra: Salaries by level of employment, Part 2

At the end of last year, the Economic Policy Institute, a nonprofit think tank based in Washington, D.C., published a report with the eye-catching headline, "CEO pay has skyrocketed 1,460 percent since 1978." You know ...

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Happy Independence Day (U.S.) from your friends at CertMag

Today is Independence Day (also know as July 4th, or the 4th of July) here in the United States, where the Certification Magazine home office is located. The CertMag staff will be enjoying a day off from ...

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Computer Technician Certification Survey: Tech support professionals have been fixing your problems for decades

As with a lot of other things that are still hanging around from the '80s and '90s, it can be difficult ...

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Salary Survey Extra: Deep Focus on Men

Typically we use the Deep Focus series to examine individual certifications. Twice each year, however, we step away from the normal routine to examine the collective profile of the IT certified women and men ...

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Certification Survey Extra: The role of government in cybersecurity, Part 3

The ageworn idiom about "pinching" pennies — believed to have originated around the dawn of the 17th century — was largely dormant in the English language until the early years of the Great Depression ...

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Test your knowledge of AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate topics

The AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate exam tests candidates on a variety of topics related to designing and deploying scalable, highly available, and fault-tolerant systems on AWS. Many of these topics ....

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