Open Cisco certification

Recently, a friend of mine who is from Civil Engineering background has enrolled himself into IT course. He is planning to take up another degree in IT field. It is quite a surprise as the 2 fields are quite different but as long as he is interested, I believe he can do it well.

Talking about IT, I am actually a computer science graduate and have been working in information technology field for 4 years now. From my experience, we need to upgrade ourselves from time to time. Within the 4 years time, I have attended a few in-house trainings and also the MySQL administration course conducted by other training center. Now, I would say that even the job scope I involve is more towards software engineering, but I am sent by my company to attend the course which is more appropriate for database administrator (DBA) too. In fact, I would say that the more you know, the more advantage you get. It helps me to reduce the dependency on DBA and the work can be done faster.

After equipped myself with database administration knowledge, maybe I shall consider to go for networking field. From time to time, I need to go down to customer site to gather requirement. Network is always an issue when conducting site visit. Cisco certification can certainly help to boost up myself in this field. There are a wide range of training programs offer from entry level to specialist in networking. Having CCENT (Cisco Certified Entry Networking Technician) can help me with my current job and in future, it can widen the opportunity in my career.