You can't get certified without taking an exam — and certification exams aren't cheap

In any detailed conversation about the true value of IT certifications, there is a point that ...

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Salary Survey Extra: Deep Focus on Women

Wednesday (March 8) was International Women’s Day. Women have been underrepresented in IT workplaces and professions for decades, but quite a few individuals and organization have been working ...

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Salary Survey Extra: Certified IT pros (again) choose sides in the streaming war

Whether on account of newly resurgent inflation or old-fashioned corporate greed, a lot of things wound up costing more in 2022. Because you (apparently) don't pay enough already to lounge in the basement ...

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How to set and achieve your work and career goals

"Work and career goals" sounds like a Tony Robbins thing, but rest assured that setting and achieving career development goals can help you flourish in your chosen profession. Success is not a given ...

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Getting to know Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act

Whenever there is a discussion of what is "wrong" with the internet, invariably someone will bring up Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act — typically shortened to just "Section 230" — and most ...

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Salary Survey Extra: Deep Focus on HPE Product Certified - AI and Machine Learning (2022)

With the November 2022 advent and subsequent explosion in popularity of the ChatGPT app pioneered by ...

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Salary Survey Extra: Give us more [Fill in the blank] vendor-neutral certs

Everybody knows that when the Dark Lord Sauron decided to make some rings of power for everybody, he settled on three rings for the Elven-kings, seven to pass out to the Dwarf-lords, and (checks notes) ...

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Test your knowledge of Tableau

Tableau is a data visualization app that is quickly becoming a standard data analysis tool across the industry. Questions regarding its uses and capabilities appear on the recently released Data+ exam from CompTIA ...

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Pennsylvania teen tends livestock, fixes computers

You stand quietly scanning the hill. The air is filled with the scent of pine, and you hear the wind passing through the trees. A chipmunk, awakened from its winter slumber, darts across your line of sight. A quick check ...

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Salary Survey Extra: Deep Focus on ISC2 CISSP

At the end of November 2022, just weeks after a highly-publicized ransomware attack by Russian hackers, the Los Angeles Unified School District began advertising to hire a Chief Information Security Officer. Under ...

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