Finished up my second A+ exam today. Now I just have to schedule my MCSA exams and I should be set. Still need to work on my Cisco though. A bit rusty with it since I don’t have any of the equipment or work in a place doing it everyday. I miss the Cisco stuff. It was a lot of fun to learn, and just made sense to me when doing it. Can’t say that about the Microsoft classes. I’m not 100% on the MSFT stuff either, but I figure, I need to start taking the exams to get an idea where I stand. Who knows? I may pass all of them just fine. Wouldn’t make me any more confident about it though, as I just need to get back to work so I can dig into this stuff now and put it to use.
Another class I am working towards is the Offensive Security Pentesting with Back|Track. http://www.offensive-security.com/blog/backtrack/pwb-v3-information-security-training-at-its-best/
I have been working on the intranet sites for the schools testing area as well as their main web site for a while now, and since I am nearly finished with my current school work, I want to start the PWB 3.0 course. I don’t have any background in IT Security, but I do like to mess around and see how things work, so this will be another great tool to add to my belt. I figure, if I can master the Back|Track stuff, I can be a better Server Administrator down the road, since that is one of my goals. As much as I like doing web sites and graphic art, I enjoy it more when its just for fun and freedom of expression than I do when its for a client. But then again, doing sites for clients has helped pay the bills, so I shouldn’t complain too much.
Well, off to bed. Been a long day and I’m pooped…