CertMag commemorates Memorial Day (U.S.)

Today is Memorial Day here in the United States. It’s a federal holiday, so the Certification Magazine home office is closed until Tuesday. Memorial Day honors the American citizens from all walks of life ...

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Salary Survey Extra: Deep Focus on CompTIA Network+

Computer networks are the backbone of the global IT infrastructure that ties the world together. They also tend to be out of sight and out of mind, which is kind of fitting. A serious spinal injury can ...

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Salary Survey Extra: Hollywood recycling spree

About this time last year, moviegoers across the United States were buzzing about the movie surprise of the summer. Nearly 40 years after the release of the naval-aviator-fetishizing action blockbuster ...

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Test your knowledge of Microsoft Word

Desktop computing proficiency is a skill required of most job seekers and it is typically listed quite prominently in employment postings. Often this translates to knowledge of and skill with Microsoft Word ...

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Pennsylvania IT instructor has reliable strategy for reaching his students

For eight years now I have been profiling information technology (IT) instructors. It's a fun job, and while all of them have been wonderful people, the best part of getting to know them is learning how ...

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Salary Survey Extra: Deep Focus on AWS Certified Security - Specialty

Cloud storage and cloud services are becoming the default setting for quite a lot computing technology. In that sense, we're rapidly progressing toward a point at which "cloud security" is not a distinct ...

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Certification Survey Extra: The role of government in cybersecurity, Part 1

Though it's not an official motto, even the United States Postal Service embraces the ageworn expression about "Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night" preventing its mail carriers from "swift ...

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Job profile: Become a statistician

Statistics. The mere mention of the word strikes fear in the heart of countless humans. But you don't have to be daunted by it. Statistics are just numbers that tell a story. And who doesn't love a good ...

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The business case for IT certification

Is having an IT certification worth the effort, time, and cost of getting one? Not all tech professionals consider industry credentials necessary. According to the latest Tech Salary Report by employment facilitator ...

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Salary Survey Extra: Deep Focus on Microsoft Certified: Azure AI Fundamentals

Just the term "AI" has a romantic allure that lights up even the most mundane of contexts. As mundane, for example, as a web page describing a certification: "Artificial intelligence (AI) opens doors into ...

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