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by moizuddin 1 view

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Hi,
I need an advice from experts like you.
I 've 6 yrs of experience first as a computer Instructor then as a support technician and Now I am a Microsoft certified system administrator and almost 3 years of experience as System administrator. I am a good learner as I got certified In MS products by self study, but I want to join training courses now but a bit confused where to go.
1)I want to get my self trained in MS SQL 2000 and get certified as MCDBA or
2)Shell I get myself trained in Advance Exchange, MS ISA server, IIS or
3)Do I get CISCO certified.

I have interest in all the above subjects and if I want to do all where do I start with I am now working on Exchange server and Domains. I know programming like C, VB, etc but not much interested in programming.
Where Do I go?

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by fenaikh

Hi
I would go to 2 option since you say "Now I am a Microsoft certified system administrator and almost 3 years of experience as System administrator."
this would help specially in e-mail and internet where.
the other option i would go option 3 for networking technology.

both are a good choice.

good luck

Mohamed

by fenaikh

Hi
Just a note for option 1
oracle DBA is better since it is the most Known DBMS.

Good luck

Mohamed

by nick l

What do you want to do as a career? At the start you can try and cover all the basis, but getting certified is one thing, staying certified is another. Basically, only current certifications associated with your current role are of any real value.If you go for Cisco, but dont use it as part of your job, you will become stale and on your CV it will quickly look a much-hated paper certification.
Also you would be unlikely to keep the Cisco and Microsoft things going at the same time.
Choose your path and follow it.

My advice would be Exchange and advanced Exchange, with inclusion of internet technologies as this will become increasingly relevant. I do not know any good Exchange consultants who are short of work!

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