What will be the top IT certifications to obtain over the next year or so? Should IT professionals lean more towards Unix/Linux skills or is getting an MCSE still important.
If you believe in absolute numbers as a predictor or indicator of what's important, compare a total
of less than 50,000 credentials per year for all Linux certifications versus more than 50,000 per
year for both MCSE and MCSA. My advice, however, is to follow your interests to wherever they might
lead you, becauese ultimately you're going to have to work 40+ hours a week doing something, so it
might as well be something you enjoy. While there may not be as many opportunities for Linux/Unix
administrators as for MCSA/MCSEs, that's not the same thing as saying there are no such
opportunities to be found, nor that this makes MCSA/MCSE "better" than similar Linux/Unix
credentials.
Outside the SysAdmin/NetAdmin arenas, information security remains a white-hot certification
area, and one probably worht obtaining at least an entry-level cert like Security+ for. For more
information about where the interest (if not all the action) is, visit "The 10 Hottest
Certifications for 2004" at http://www.certcities.com/editorial/features/story.asp?EditorialsID=76.
This will give you some idea about what other IT professional find interesting
certification-wise.
This was first published in February 2004
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