aaronwdejong.net: A blog about life in IT with mental health.
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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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New Beginnings
New Beginnings I usually do the Friday post, but today I chose to do Thursday so that I can celebrate new beginnings. There are some things that I have been doing to keep current with my business knowledge. Due to the entrepreneurship skills that I have now, I would like to put them into use.…
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Working on my Skill Set
Article I have published a new article on Medium and the link is the following. https://medium.com/@dejong.aaron/training-for-a-big-exam-3802351d4508 The article is titled as Training for a Big Exam and is my first article going into exam preparation and training. I am working on doing more articles that are more technical articles and some exam preparation or training…
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Updated Plans for 2025
2025 Plans There are some things that I am doing to better myself and reestablish my career. In order to get a job I need to work on more job role based certifications. These include both the Security+ and the CCNP ENCOR exams which are the main two that I am studying for. I have…
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Plans for Five Certifications
Certifications in 2025 There are some certifications that I am doing for the CISSP training which include the SC-900, SC-300, CyberOps Associate and the Security+. For these certifications I will be doing them along with the AZ-900 this year. The AZ-900 certification I have scheduled for January 23rd, 2025. With these five certifications I will…
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