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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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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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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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Salary Survey Extra: What certification did you earn most recently?

Most career paths include some sort of mechanism for career growth and development. If you're a professional hit man, for example, then you might set out to kill someone, follow your target into an acting class ...

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Salary Survey Extra: Deep Focus on CySA+

A cybersecurity analyst is sort of like the fictitious science doodad in the disaster movie San Andreas that can predict earthquakes. The job of an expert cybersecurity analyst is actually harder: The earthquake ...

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Salary Survey Extra: Where there's smoke ...

We're all pretty certain about how the universe works in certain "laws of physics"-type ways, as well as on the level of shared common sense acceptance of the Way Things Are. An object in motion tends ...

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Please take our 2023 Computer Technician Certification Survey

When there's a problem with the internet, or a print job stalls out, or a dual monitor display has to be configured, there's an obvious solution: find a younger person. When you consider that many adults ...

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