On 7/5/07, Benjamin Gramlich <benjamin.gramlich at gmail.com> wrote: > > I'm interested in getting my A+ certification. Have any of you taken the > exam? If so, do you have any suggestions for a book to use a prepatory > guide? > > Also, are there any other certifications that one should acquire in > order to be more marketable as an IT Technician? As a hiring manager, I give zero weight to the A+ certification. So many people have it that I question what value it really represents. Give me two resumes, one with the A+, one without and it won't have any bearing whatsoever on my decision. That said, I don't hire hardware techs, so if that's where your passion lies, perhaps its more useful for you. YMMV and all that. As to your other question, specialized certifications will be (in my experience) far more valuable than generalist ones. Also pick ones that have a decent reputation in the industry. By and large, there are very few certifications that I place significant value on because so many of them are textbook certs. (meaning you can earn one by memorizing stuff in a textbook, like the MCSE) Ones that I do place some emphasis on are: CISSP, GIAC, CCIE and, to a lesser extent, the RHCE. (I'm sure there's a lot of other very worthwhile certs -- those are just the ones I know about) --kurt -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20070705/20f9d1cb/attachment.htm