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Snow Leopard Certifications

Apple has released the Snow Leopard certification information and site. To make a long story short, for those who are ACSA inclined, you basically have the Apple Certified Support Professional, which is just one exam based on the Snow 101 course. You then have the Apple Certified Technical Coordinator (ACTC), which is the Support Essentials [...]

FileMaker 10 Certification

FileMaker has now released their certification track for FileMaker 10. They also now have a book and CD available for learning the software and preparing for the exam.

Posted on June 2, 2009 at 10:15 pm by admin · Permalink · Leave a comment
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VMware vExpert 2009

So the nominations were in, VMware did their thing, and John Troyer sent me an email to let me know that I’m one of the recipients of the vExpert Award for 2009 – so if you were thinking you might get a vExpert Award check your mail! I don’t know whether the white paper I [...]

Posted on February 25, 2009 at 6:12 am by admin · Permalink · Leave a comment
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Final Cut Server Exam

I finally got around to taking that Final Cut Server exam this week.  It was pretty straight forward.  I think there is definitely a methodology to writing exams.  I wrote a few for Brainbench and because their structure was extremely laid out really got to learn a lot about the methodology to writing questions. I [...]

Posted on February 12, 2009 at 7:25 pm by admin · Permalink · Leave a comment
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Certification Exams

When getting ready for your certifications, it helps to know how prepared you are. Basically, there are two fairly basic ways to evaluate readiness. The first (and one of the most practical) is to do lots of exam simulation questions when possible to get comfortable with the testing format. Now, don’t go too far with [...]

Posted on January 8, 2009 at 1:15 am by admin · Permalink · Leave a comment
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The Economy and IT

Companies simply cannot live without IT.  If a company is going to cut existing staff then they aren’t going to cut the staff that’s actually keeping their systems up and running, nor are they going to cut employees that are creating value.  But if these be uncertain times then consider beefing up your skills and [...]

Posted on October 4, 2008 at 10:00 am by admin · Permalink · Leave a comment
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PMP ya' you know me

So I started doing this whole PMP thing.  I got my hours out of the way and I’m now studying for the test.  I have to give it to them they’ve made a pretty worthwhile course.  It’s like sociology for project management.  I’ve learned a lot.  Mostly about the terminology to assign to things that [...]

Posted on June 19, 2008 at 2:02 am by admin · Permalink · Leave a comment
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Microsoft Gold Partner

Getting to be a Microsoft Gold Partner is like learning to program in some languages.  I think there’s a distinct possibility that those who manage the partner program are those who developed FoxPro.  When Microsoft bought FoxPro methinks they just moved the people over to a new department…

Posted on March 1, 2008 at 2:38 pm by admin · Permalink · Leave a comment
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Certifications: MCITP

Posted on July 27, 2007 at 2:36 am by admin · Permalink · Leave a comment
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ITIL

To quote wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information_Technology_Infrastructure_Library The Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL) is a set of concepts and policies for managing the Information Technology (IT) services (ITSM), developments and operations.

Posted on August 2, 2005 at 9:00 am by admin · Permalink · Leave a comment
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