What do u think of these 10 certifications?

It's ten exams, but six certifications.

MCSA::Windows Server 2003 A+, Network+, Security+ Junior Level Administration, Intermediate Level Administration

For an entry-level networking position, I look for a minimum of a CCNA, JNCIA, or Network+ along with a 4-year degree (or 4 years experience). Then I look at the quality of your previous work. Did you get experience on real routers? Did your degree include networking classes? At that point you qualify for a technical interview and your attitude and actual knowledge become the most important things.

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6 certifications. 4 weeks/exam is probably fine if you're new to IT.

For a networking position, passing network+ definitely raises your chances. Passing security+ raises them slightly. The others, no help.

Network+ is good, though I give CCNA or JNCIA slightly more weight.

If you like networking, skip these courses. Get a CCNA book from Cisco Press or Sybex for $50 and rent some router racktime or buy a router simulator. You'll be done in one month instead of ten months and just about as employable for a networking position either way.

1) Will you pass the Cert exams? Yes. Will you know all this stuff instide out? No 2) If two people with no experience turn up for a job interview and one has certs and the other doesn't then I'd employ the latter. 3) The value of these certs depend on what you want to do:

A+ is how to put boxes together. Forget it unless you want an assembly job in the backroom of a whitebox PC shop.

Microsoft exams are only relevant if you are planning a windows oriented career. Not useful in networking at all.

Network+ and Security+ have about a 50% overlap. Entry level non-vendor specific certs. Good startling point if you have a CISSP.

I've never heard anybody asks for any Linux cert except for the RHCE. This is probably the second most difficult exam after the CCIE as its really the only other one out there that tests your hands-on ability. (Disclaimer - I know nothing about Juniper certs, so there may be others). Again, its only relevant if you want to do Linux stuff.

I agree with the poster. Work out how much money you'd spend on these certs, and instead spend the money on two or three routers, a Cat 2950 switch (EI if you can get it), a handfull of ethernet and serial cables and the following books:

CCNA Certification Library (exam #640-801) By Wendell Odom CCNA Practical Studies By Gary Heap, Lynn Maynes. CCDA Self-Study: Designing for Cisco Internetwork Solutions (DESGN)

640-861 by Diane Teare CCDA/CCDP Flash Cards and Exam Practice Pack by Anthony Sequeira, Kevin Wallace.

Go and pass CCNA and CCDA, giving you entry level certs in network design and implementation. The second of these is the differentator.

I wouldn't say that. I've seen to many network techs and admins who didn't have a clue how PCs work, except in terms of their CCNA or MCSE coverage. Helps tremendously when you can troubleshoot hardware. In networking, you often have to exlplicitly tell HelpDesk folks what is wrong with the PC before they'll believe it's not the network at fault.

Unless you work in a network where you deal with Windows admins who think "The Network" is the cause of all their troubles.

Don't know. Haven't seen the curriculum.

The CCNA is what I'd consider as a minimum level of knowledge for a networking job. I think the CCDA looks a little too vague to be much use by itself.

While the above non-Cisco certs aren't really needed, knowledge of the material covered is invaluable when you are going to be dealing with other non-Cisco IT people.