Information Technology (IT)

[lynchpin33]

Anywhere to get new free A+ study guides? Have the book for 901 and 902, but on the comptia website, it looks like they have moved on from those. Thanks for any help in advance.

 

[spiderjericho]

About to take my next cert (CEH) next month and was wondering which linux certification would be worth getting after that? Linux essentials or the CompTIA Linux +?

Depends on your goal. Those are both basic Linux Certs. Whereas RHCA and RHCE are more respected and support enterprise work loads. And on the open front LPIC 1-3 cover down on how to implement Linux solutions for a large business/Enterprise.

 

[spiderjericho]

Took and passed the Microsoft AZ104 exam today. I failed it the first time I took it in July.

Had to go back and re review the official course materials and had an Udemy practice test.

Definitely a legit exam. I was beat at the end. It was only 64 questions but felt like 120+ due to multi answer questions.

Going to take. Few days off then start studying for ISC CAP.

 

[titang545]

Took and passed the Microsoft AZ104 exam today. I failed it the first time I took it in July.

Had to go back and re review the official course materials and had an Udemy practice test.

Definitely a legit exam. I was beat at the end. It was only 64 questions but felt like 120+ due to multi answer questions.

Going to take. Few days off then start studying for ISC CAP.

CONGRATS man, after passing last exam vowed never to take another exam unless they have a CE for it. Not paying and studying for an exam again, basically just a cash grab on Microsoft and other's. What are you going to do with the ISC CAP, are you using it as a stepping stone for CISSP. Did a quick search on the exam because I never heard of it. I did see it checks the box for being 8570 compliant.

 

[datznasty]

Here is a link to an opportunity I was offered but can't use. They (TangoAlpha3 on behalf of SBD Alliant) are working for/with the Defense Health Agency at over 80 sites, both domestic and abroad. No OKC though. I have no idea about pay either, but the travel one I think she is referencing was going to do about 90k for me plus per diem and room/board. https://loxo.co/job/270173 I put the letter and list of sites in the spoiler. Maybe see if it fits, if you contact her and it does get in my DMs so I can tell you my Government and maybe get a referal

Spoiler

Hi DatzNasty,

I hope you are well!

Shanti Smith with TangoAlpha3 here!

I know I have sent you emails prior about the Network Specialist program of current openings. A contract supporting the Defense Health Agency's enterprise network with numerous locations. I know it hasn’t always been in your preferred area or good timing as far as new opportunities. If you've told me your geographical preferences, I did make note.

I decided to reach back out because we have many new locations opening around the world (contingent upon Contract Award) to be added to our current contract that presently runs through 2024. Its just life happens, or deployment ends, or things change, or you may know someone in these trying times who is actively searching for a new opportunity. We are excited to support this extremely important mission and to partner with some of the most talented men and women in the effort to deliver critical network engineering and support services to the United States Department of Defense.

Remember that you do need a minimum of a Public Trust Clearance or higher, Network Experience- with routers and switches, and a current IAT Level II certification i.e. Security+. You will have 4 months from start date to get a CCNA but if you already have a current one- that is a bonus! The program is the same regardless of location.

Below are the multiple locations coming! Let me know if you or someone you know has interest in any of these locations and I will follow-up with you accordingly.

UNITED STATES	Beaufort MCAS SC	Langley VA
Fort Lee VA	Charleston SC	Eglin FL
Hurlburt FL	Robins GA	McGuire NJ
Offutt NE	Kirtland NM	Luke AZ
Goodfellow TX	Hanscom MA	McConnell KS
Malmstrom MT	FE Warren WY	Ellsworth SD
Beale CA	Wright-Patterson OH

OCONUS	Misawa Japan	Yokota Japan
Lakenheath (UK)	Aviano Italy	Incirlik Turkey
Kunsan South Korea	Humphreys South Korea	Osan South Korea
Andersen Guam	Ramstein/Spangdahlem/ Geilenkirchen Germany

Also, if you are interested in program but none of these sites will work for you, please respond to this email with locations that would be preferable: DHA Current and Potential Sites.pdf and I will reach back out when something in your location opens up asap.

Thanks so much!



Best,



Shanti Smith
Talent Acquisition Specialist

Direct: 512-394-8392 x702 | Cell: 512-698-6338
ssmith@tangoalpha3.com | www.tangoalpha3.com | Certified SDVOSB

 

[MakeNTGreatAgain]

I am going to schedule my 3rd CEH exam take next week, it will my 3rd time in the last six months taking it. I am confident I can pass if i take my time, I dont believe I will fail, but if I do i am moving on from this exam

even though my manager has reccommended me to take it

 

[datznasty]

Job market out here is tougher than I imagined and no unemployment since I quit. I have accepted like 15 or so, and theyre **** ok we'll get you sent iver and processed and hear from us in a couple fays and I dont. I know its end of the fiscal year though and October when budgets drop I'll probably hear back from all of them at the same time

 

[spiderjericho]

CONGRATS man, after passing last exam vowed never to take another exam unless they have a CE for it. Not paying and studying for an exam again, basically just a cash grab on Microsoft and other's. What are you going to do with the ISC CAP, are you using it as a stepping stone for CISSP. Did a quick search on the exam because I never heard of it. I did see it checks the box for being 8570 compliant.

Honestly. I agree. On one hand these certifications are in itself a revenue generating venture for these IT companies (since it’s them certifying you and you paying the test fees and buying the books).

I have the CISSP already. My last job paid for me to attend a CAP boot camp so that’s the main reason why I’m pursuing it. Well, I’m also interested in the Assessment and Authorization process.

Following that, I’m trying to get those three letters (P M P).

I’m only pushing myself this way because of COVID and still dealing with my last relationship breakup. Just trying to work on myself in several areas.

 

[titang545]

Honestly. I agree. On one hand these certifications are in itself a revenue generating venture for these IT companies (since it’s them certifying you and you paying the test fees and buying the books).

I have the CISSP already. My last job paid for me to attend a CAP boot camp so that’s the main reason why I’m pursuing it. Well, I’m also interested in the Assessment and Authorization process.

Following that, I’m trying to get those three letters (P M P).

I’m only pushing myself this way because of COVID and still dealing with my last relationship breakup. Just trying to work on myself in several areas.

Ahhh that's right I remember someone in here mentioning getting over someone. That was you, yeah push hard into those certs, get that money up. You going to see her out and about when you driving the Cullinan, roll down the window and laugh.


Could have been you.

 

[titang545]

I am going to schedule my 3rd CEH exam take next week, it will my 3rd time in the last six months taking it. I am confident I can pass if i take my time, I dont believe I will fail, but if I do i am moving on from this exam

even though my manager has reccommended me to take it

What are you using to study? Second don't even let the thought of not failing enter your subconscious. Speak that you will pass it.

Job market out here is tougher than I imagined and no unemployment since I quit. I have accepted like 15 or so, and theyre **** ok we'll get you sent iver and processed and hear from us in a couple fays and I dont. I know its end of the fiscal year though and October when budgets drop I'll probably hear back from all of them at the same time

Why did you quit?

 

[datznasty]

high high stress and too many hours. They were ******* me over on purpose because I was new giving me the worst workloads which had the worst patch day schedules (and were overall the most difficult and mos F'd up and some had SIPR and NIPR too so I was having to come to work at midnight to get in the SCIF and ****) so that would take me WAY beyond M-F 8-5, hit 68 hours one week. And no overtime they give you Comp, and they cheated me out of my comp hours too not cashing them out, probably around 1200 worth pretax. When I had the job, I was getting calls left and right and rejecting them, then I quit and now I have less prospects but

Amazon interview was brutal. Don't know if its always like that as the guy who interviewed me wasnt HR, was one of the support engineers. Just started off asking me definitions for like 30 minutes and I was flat like, "No I dont know what grep is," "no I don't remember the Linux cmd to show running processes by heart, but if I needed to know I'd research aka google it, take 5 seconds to do, and execute," he was asking me what ports different services run on, just a bunch of irrelevant nonsense. Then the behavioral, STAR interview technique question section, he asked like 3 questions which I nailed, but I knew I was already sunk.

Got 3 interviews today

 

[titang545]

high high stress and too many hours. They were ****ing me over on purpose because I was new giving me the worst workloads which had the worst patch day schedules (and were overall the most difficult and mos F'd up and some had SIPR and NIPR too so I was having to come to work at midnight to get in the SCIF and ****) so that would take me WAY beyond M-F 8-5, hit 68 hours one week. And no overtime they give you Comp, and they cheated me out of my comp hours too not cashing them out, probably around 1200 worth pretax. When I had the job, I was getting calls left and right and rejecting them, then I quit and now I have less prospects but

Amazon interview was brutal. Don't know if its always like that as the guy who interviewed me wasnt HR, was one of the support engineers. Just started off asking me definitions for like 30 minutes and I was flat like, "No I dont know what grep is," "no I don't remember the Linux cmd to show running processes by heart, but if I needed to know I'd research aka google it, take 5 seconds to do, and execute," he was asking me what ports different services run on, just a bunch of irrelevant nonsense. Then the behavioral, STAR interview technique question section, he asked like 3 questions which I nailed, but I knew I was already sunk.

Got 3 interviews today

Man you shouldn't of quit, just been stricter on your time, stuff just wouldn't get done if I am over 80 hours and they bulljivin on the comp time. I been there when jobs do stuff like that I use to get real scarce during the 8 hours. I was leaving work to drive to my girls house to smash then come back and check email. Management wasn't trying to do anything about it? Meh it's done now.

Yeah them Amazon interviews are hard AS F***, I don't remember knowledge like that I can google.

grep is a command-line utility for searching plain-text data sets for lines that match a regular expression. Its name comes from the ed command g/re/p, which has the same effect. grep was originally developed for the Unix operating system, but later available for all Unix-like systems and some others such as OS-9

Check running process in Linux
The procedure to monitor the running process in Linux using the command line is as follows:

1. Open the terminal window on Linux
2. For remote Linux server use the ssh command for log in purpose
3. Type the ps aux command to see all running process in Linux
4. Alternatively, you can issue the top command or htop command to view running process in Linux

Regarding ports just remember the important ones, F**** TON of ports to try and remember them all.

List of TCP and UDP port numbers - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

You good man, good luck today.

 

[datznasty]

Thanks. Those definitions mean nothing, dude was just trying to have something to be disqualifying. Even if you use those things, wrote memory of terms and **** doesnt amount or even factor into being able to do a job. I mean it is what it is.

As far as my last job, I did get 3 months out of them where I was getting paid sitting at home waiting for my clearance to come through so i guess it evens out . They'll always have extremely high turnover though because of the same things I experienced. It's the type of job you can't be knew at, everyone has to be a retread who left and came back or someone transferring from another division. That whole DISA is its on culture.

I know at least 1 more person quit since I did, not surprising since theyd have to redistribute out my workloads and I had all the least desirable ones in every way.

 

[titang545]

Thanks. Those definitions mean nothing, dude was just trying to have something to be disqualifying. Even if you use those things, wrote memory of terms and **** doesnt amount or even factor into being able to do a job. I mean it is what it is.

As far as my last job, I did get 3 months out of them where I was getting paid sitting at home waiting for my clearance to come through so i guess it evens out . They'll always have extremely high turnover though because of the same things I experienced. It's the type of job you can't be knew at, everyone has to be a retread who left and came back or someone transferring from another division. That whole DISA is its on culture.

I know at least 1 more person quit since I did, not surprising since theyd have to redistribute out my workloads and I had all the least desirable ones in every way.

I wasn't sending you the info to memorize, but for your next interview drop some info from the previous info. When they ask you to tell them about a particular tough problem you had, be like I had such and such so I had to grep this. Then I had to verify this and that was this port. I feel the interviewer thinks if the guy is sharing an experience when he used this stuff he must know about it.

However be careful sometimes it might backfire, but just say I didn't have to do that.

 

[datznasty]

Just upgraded my LinkedIn to Premium and you can see who has been viewing your profile. Couple of baddies on there then a few people viewed on private, anyone ever pulled this move off? Few of them arent recruiters or in HR according to their title so what are they checking up on me for?
*writes down names, takes to facebook search *
*birdman hand rub*

 

[datkidfiasco]

been in banking 5 years and im done. Sales pressure during covid + the stress has me miserable. Where should i start? someone tell me what to do just to get my foot in the door

 

[tay1]

been in banking 5 years and im done. Sales pressure during covid + the stress has me miserable. Where should i start? someone tell me what to do just to get my foot in the door

Look in CompTIA A+ or if you know absolutely nothing about computers start with CompTIA ITF

An entry level job in IT is Help Desk or Desktop support

 

[datkidfiasco]

Look in CompTIA A+ or if you know absolutely nothing about computers start with CompTIA ITF

An entry level job in IT is Help Desk or Desktop support

i build computers for fun, but know nothing about the software side.

what would be the best route to make good money? i have a good paying job , but i hate it. Would going and doing a 2 year program at a community college be good? or doing certs?

 

[tay1]

i build computers for fun, but know nothing about the software side.

what would be the best route to make good money? i have a good paying job , but i hate it. Would going and doing a 2 year program at a community college be good? or doing certs?

I would say certs. CompTia A+, Network+ and Security+ are all common beginning certs

There's multiple routes you can take and money is in all of them. Just depends on what interests you the most.

 

[spiderjericho]

Maybe it’s me but I can’t stand some of the solicitations I get on LinkedIn.

I got a rash of financial planners. One dude kept dming like I owed him something.

And I’ve been reserved in some of the foreign contacts with my DoD affiliation.

 

[mr j 858]

Maybe it’s me but I can’t stand some of the solicitations I get on LinkedIn.

I got a rash of financial planners. One dude kept dming like I owed him something.

And I’ve been reserved in some of the foreign contacts with my DoD affiliation.

Yeah I closed my Linkedin account 2 years ago and have not looked back since. That website is a joke.

 

[MakeNTGreatAgain]

What are you using to study? Second don't even let the thought of not failing enter your subconscious. Speak that you will pass it.

mostly the boson practice exams, i got 75% on both my tries man. super depressing.

I think i am going to hop on the comptia cert path next.

 

[SupremeBeing5]

Any of yall done these 1 way video interviews? **** was brutal. You either read the question or in 1 case they had a video of the HR person asking then you got like 30 seconds to think, like up to 3 retakes in some questions and as it progressed less think time and no retakes. **** was brutal, then I got SAIC sending me an "assessment" which was just a test, **** was harder than Security +. I might just need to sell drugs, seems less stressful. All these jobs calling telling me they're going to submit then ghosting me after making me jump through all these hoops

What certs you got?

Yeah sell drugs.

 

[fac3 tak30v312]

Thank you!

My advice for people who want to get into the IT field: Focus on what certifications you want and don't be afraid to apply even if the job posting says you need xyz degree and you only have abc degree. Experience will carry you far and its easy to move up in IT.

high high stress and too many hours. They were ****ing me over on purpose because I was new giving me the worst workloads which had the worst patch day schedules (and were overall the most difficult and mos F'd up and some had SIPR and NIPR too so I was having to come to work at midnight to get in the SCIF and ****) so that would take me WAY beyond M-F 8-5, hit 68 hours one week. And no overtime they give you Comp, and they cheated me out of my comp hours too not cashing them out, probably around 1200 worth pretax. When I had the job, I was getting calls left and right and rejecting them, then I quit and now I have less prospects but

Amazon interview was brutal. Don't know if its always like that as the guy who interviewed me wasnt HR, was one of the support engineers. Just started off asking me definitions for like 30 minutes and I was flat like, "No I dont know what grep is," "no I don't remember the Linux cmd to show running processes by heart, but if I needed to know I'd research aka google it, take 5 seconds to do, and execute," he was asking me what ports different services run on, just a bunch of irrelevant nonsense. Then the behavioral, STAR interview technique question section, he asked like 3 questions which I nailed, but I knew I was already sunk.

Got 3 interviews today

We’re you perm or did they bring you in as a contractor?
I’m looking into getting an advanced degree while back on the cert path..

 

[fac3 tak30v312]

Man you shouldn't of quit, just been stricter on your time, stuff just wouldn't get done if I am over 80 hours and they bulljivin on the comp time. I been there when jobs do stuff like that I use to get real scarce during the 8 hours. I was leaving work to drive to my girls house to smash then come back and check email. Management wasn't trying to do anything about it? Meh it's done now.

Yeah them Amazon interviews are hard AS F***, I don't remember knowledge like that I can google.

grep is a command-line utility for searching plain-text data sets for lines that match a regular expression. Its name comes from the ed command g/re/p, which has the same effect. grep was originally developed for the Unix operating system, but later available for all Unix-like systems and some others such as OS-9

Check running process in Linux
The procedure to monitor the running process in Linux using the command line is as follows:

1. Open the terminal window on Linux
2. For remote Linux server use the ssh command for log in purpose
3. Type the ps aux command to see all running process in Linux
4. Alternatively, you can issue the top command or htop command to view running process in Linux

Regarding ports just remember the important ones, F**** TON of ports to try and remember them all.

List of TCP and UDP port numbers - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

You good man, good luck today.

When I was using Linux exclusively a couple of years ago these commands were used quite often.. would I remember them now seeing that I haven’t touched Ubuntu or any flavors of Linux in the last year probably not.. Honestly I’m thinking of building two more systems for this very reason