aaronwdejong.net: A blog about life in IT with mental health.
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aaronwdejong.net
A Blog for Life in IT with Mental Health Starting my Journey I am starting my new journey today to go back into IT as I have overcome most of my mental health issues that were plaguing me before. I am starting my journey back into IT with the knowledge that I can be the…
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Adding Skills for the Future
Skills and Training Update I have been going through the Ethical Hacking Learning Path on LinkedIn Learning and noticed that I am liking the training material. I am doing more skills based things like learning more about an SOC Analyst role and responsibilities. There are some things like an SOC Analyst that I am not…
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Back on the Path
Path Forward There are some things that I learned more about than I would of normally. The detour was a success of sorts, I am working through some of the ISO 20000 training materials. My training will be put on LinkedIn and I will let you know more about that when I finish. Learning more…
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Attending to my Article
Article I have written an article on Medium called “My Story” and you can check it out at the provided link below. https://medium.com/@dejong.aaron/my-story-44e5df46f4be This article is about my journey coming back into IT and also for my career journey, where I want to be in 2031 with the CCIE: Enterprise Infrastructure, Certified Ethical Hacker, and…
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Plans for IT Manager Certifications
Working on IT Manager Certifications I have been working on some more certifications since the last blog post. These certifications are more for the IT Manager role. The certifications that I am working on are the ISO 20000 Foundation and the ISO 22301 Foundation from Certiprof. In addition, I am working on the Project+ for…
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Detour on the Path
Detour There has been a slight detour and I have started studying for my first Certiprof certification. This is the ISO 20000 Foundation Exam, and I have been looking for something different to do for some time. The ISO 20000 Foundation exam will help me with ITSM or IT Service Management standards. It will be…
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Reading and Training Journal
Reading I’ve read only five books so far this year and have a little left to read in the CompTIA Network+ Certification Exam N10-007 book. This book is the sixth book that I am reading this year. I have been putting it off to read and need to refresh my knowledge with this book. Will…
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Goals for my IT Career
Current Goals I would like to set up my training in accordance with my current goals. For the goals that I have, I would like to do a second attempt for the Certified in Cybersecurity. After this, I will be doing the SC-900 and waiting until later in the year to do the Security+. Pushing…
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Working on my Focus
Main Focus I am at a point in my training that I will have more certifications to go after. This presents some challenges to prevent analysis paralysis. There are some tracks that I would like to go down specifically the Azure Network Engineer Associate and the CompTIA Network Infrastructure Professional. Thinking about these tracks is…
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To Network+ or to CCNA
CompTIA Network+ I am going back to what I was doing last year around August and September. The main goal then was to pass the Network+ before the CCNA. There were some things that I was doing for the CCNA and the Network+ was a big part of my study plan. There are people that…
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Updated Focus on Azure
AZ-900 Certification I recently passed the Microsoft Azure Fundamentals exam which is the AZ-900. This exam was a shorter exam than the CCNA that I passed in December. I did not have too many issues with the exam, got a score of 857 needing 700 to pass. Passing this exam has helped me with the…
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