Tag: education
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Certification Exams: Some things don’t change!
Following the class that I was teaching one night this week I got up from my desk and sidled over to my kitchen table. I had an appointment to take a certification exam at 10:00pm, and it was nearly time to log on. Nearly, but not quite time. I had a discussion with some of…
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Outside My Comfort Zone
While my focus has of late shifted to cybersecurity, I have spent most of my teaching career focusing on Microsoft technologies. It made sense, since as an IT consultant I had always specialized in Microsoft infrastructure technologies. Even with my recent shift to infosec, I am still the go-to instructor for the Microsoft stack for…
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Not Passing and Failing
I maintain a spreadsheet that lists every single certification exam that I have sat since my first one in December of 2001. Each line consists of the date, the exam title, the exam code, the result, and the certification that it was applicable to (since many certifications, especially in those early days, required multiple exams…
The World According to Mitch 
