Salary Survey Extra: Give us more [Fill in the blank] vendor-neutral certs

Everybody knows that when the Dark Lord Sauron decided to make some rings of power for everybody, he settled on three rings for the Elven-kings, seven to pass out to the Dwarf-lords, and (checks notes) ...

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Test your knowledge of Tableau

Tableau is a data visualization app that is quickly becoming a standard data analysis tool across the industry. Questions regarding its uses and capabilities appear on the recently released Data+ exam from CompTIA ...

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Pennsylvania teen tends livestock, fixes computers

You stand quietly scanning the hill. The air is filled with the scent of pine, and you hear the wind passing through the trees. A chipmunk, awakened from its winter slumber, darts across your line of sight. A quick check ...

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Salary Survey Extra: Deep Focus on (ISC)² CISSP

At the end of November 2022, just weeks after a highly-publicized ransomware attack by Russian hackers, the Los Angeles Unified School District began advertising to hire a Chief Information Security Officer. Under ...

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Salary Survey Extra: Salute, shrug, side-eye or scowl at cryptocurrency?

What a difference a year makes. As the calendar turned over from 2021 to 2022, optimism about cryptocurrency was possibly as high as it's ever been. Stock prices were soaring, coin exchanges ...

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An overview of six technologies that could shape the digital landscape in 2023

I love this century! Innovations and advances in technology have grown exponentially with new technologies emerging on a seemingly daily basis. This century and, indeed, this decade, is like a candy shop ...

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Wishing you a wintry and wondrous Washington's Birthday

The Certification Magazine home office is closed today in honor of the U.S. holiday of Washington’s Birthday (also informally known as Presidents Day). We’ll be back tomorrow (Feb. 21), with more of the all-around ...

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Salary Survey Extra: Deep Focus on CCNP Security

Any organization — public or private, corporate or government, commercial or nonprofit — that maintains a computer network is at risk of a cyberattack. Just last year, major attacks were perpetrated against ...

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Salary Survey Extra: Tablets and smartphones in the workplace

In 1926 — just 50 years after Alexander Graham Bell either successfully invented the telephone, or successfully beat Elisha Gray to the U.S. Patent Office — fellow pioneering inventor Nikola Tesla created the first ...

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Job profile: Become a Linux consultant

A Linux consultant is a server computing specialist responsible for installing, configuring, maintaining, supporting, and securing systems and applications across Linux-based infrastructure. Linux is a low-cost ...

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