{"id":81,"date":"2007-06-28T22:02:00","date_gmt":"2007-06-29T05:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.oliverhansen.com\/index.php\/2007\/06\/28\/should-i-get-more-certifications\/"},"modified":"2007-06-28T22:02:00","modified_gmt":"2007-06-29T05:02:00","slug":"should-i-get-more-certifications","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.oliverhansen.com\/index.php\/2007\/06\/28\/should-i-get-more-certifications\/","title":{"rendered":"Should I Get More Certifications?"},"content":{"rendered":"

I was just thinking about this today. I had motivation to go all the way towards an MCSE<\/abbr><\/span> earlier but got stuck when studying for 291. I know some people are just good at taking tests but I like to have something to apply it to for me to really learn it. I don’t have a server at work to just play with — even though I can build one, I don’t have the chance to really build out a lot of clients and try things with different users. I learned a fair amount from MeasureUp<\/a> practice tests but not enough to try the test. Then I started working more shows and just wanted to relax when in the office.<\/p>\n

Some people have been taking the Vista certifications and maybe I should try one now that I’m a little more familiar with it. The only annoying thing is that I guess you need to know about the new programs that come with Vista. Applications like Mail, Calendar and some others I think. Since I use Outlook and the MS Office Suite at work I don’t have any clue about those other programs.<\/p>\n

Another idea is getting some non-Microsoft certifications. Security+ and Network+ come to mind as those are areas I’m interested in. I also hear that the Security+ can be used as an elective on the MCSE<\/abbr><\/span> track. My friend Christian is thinking about Security+ so I may do it with him. Security is something very important these days of course, so having a paper that says I know something about it could help.<\/p>\n

Just getting my thoughts out there. I’ll be busy on show site for all of July of course so no test taking during that time period.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I was just thinking about this today. I had motivation to go all the way towards an MCSE earlier but got stuck when studying for 291. I know some people are just good at taking tests but I like to have something to apply it to for me to really learn it. I don’t have […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9,10],"tags":[275,44,276],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.oliverhansen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.oliverhansen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.oliverhansen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.oliverhansen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.oliverhansen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.oliverhansen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.oliverhansen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.oliverhansen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.oliverhansen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}