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Top 10 reasons to take the 2023 Salary Survey

We get it. Your life is busy. You work hard. You have other obligations. Maybe it’s family. Maybe it’s continuing education. Maybe it’s community service. Maybe it’s plugging into an audiobook or podcast ...

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Salary Survey Extra: Deep Focus on IBM Certified Associate

You can become many different kinds of certified associate — certified associate (standalone), certified associate developer, certified associate business process analyst, certified associate SRE, and more ...

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Salary Survey Extra: Do certified IT pros hold academic degrees?

Just like in every other field of professional endeavor, there are well-paid and successful IT workers who don’t have an academic degree from a four-year or two-year program of study at a college or ...

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Salary Survey Extra: Deep Focus on AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner

We still call cloud computing "cloud computing," but things may not stay that way forever. Rapid cloud adoption is pushing so many IT tools, processes, and services into the cloud arena that it may not be too ...

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Certification Survey Extra: Computer networking certification training materials

It's not uncommon among certified IT professionals to take and pass a certification exam without so much as cracking the cover of a study guide, downloading a single video walkthrough, or sitting ...

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Computer Networking Certification Survey: Computer networking technology transmits information around the world

George Washington was many things in his lifetime. A founding father. The first president of the ...

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Take the 2023 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 ...

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Salary Survey Extra: Deep Focus on CompTIA Security+

The Teddy Bear Principle of cybersecurity essentially states that a teddy bear in the family van won't be protected in an accident unless it is wearing a seatbelt. Similarly, cybersecurity defensive measures can only ...

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Salary Survey Extra: Salaries by employment tier, Part 2

At the end of 2021, Sony Music Entertainment paid $550 million to purchase the entire musical catalog of rock star Bruce Springsteen. A chunk of that hefty sum no doubt flowed more or less directly into Springsteen’s ...

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Computer Programming Certification Survey: Talking to computers is essential to IT

There's a scene in the movie Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home (the one about the whales) where Mr. Scott attempts — and fails — to activate a 1980s desktop computer by speaking to it. Not as many people ...

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