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As my months to do are getting very few and the course I wanted at Aldershot (CompTia A+) was full, I decided to look a bit further afield on the CTP website and found a Plymouth company offering the same course but only taking 5 days instead of the 20 days spent at Aldershot (Think how much quicker TMT could be without the tea-breaks and you get an idea of how you can cut the length of a course). Needless to say that this piqued my interest and I dug a bit deeper. I found that the course content for the CompTia A+ will formalise most IT geeks knowledge (so if you have built a PC, your own network at home or even installed Windows then this is the course/exam to tick your boxes).

After a bit of a chat with the company, I am now getting four courses instead of one. I might even use up my SLC to get through some of the exams! So far, so good. I can only say that it pays you to invest in your future as I should come out of my GRT with some really useful and geeky qualifications.
 
Did Comptia A+ as part of my resettlement with a company in Malvern Worcs.

There's plenty of practice exams out on the web for you to try your hand before you go for the real thing - don't want to waste your money even if it is paid for you.
 
Cheap v expensive

Cheap v expensive

Aldershot course is £25 a day.....
BluescreenIT is £100+ a day. They make a bit of cash on the accommodation I think.

The aldershot course is progressive for newbies External one will be a cram course.
Be careful to have the experience to back it up. I have been told that if some employers see that you have done the course as resettlement then it counts for naff all!
 
monobrow said:
Bluescreen IT by any chance?
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However did you guess? :-) Seriously I got them to send me a syllabus so that I could see what was on the course and I have done 70% of it already either through being mis-used at work or doing my own thing at home fixing whatever the wife has broken.

I realise that the CompTia A+ course is aimed at the newbie and is progressive. But it allows me to have a formal qualifcation to back up my IT experience. While I joined as a clerk, I have spent most of my last two tours involved in IM and IT and there are few formal qualifications that we are allowed to take as a two banana Jaffa.
 
I know someone who is doing MCITP SA and CCNA for resettlement. Will get his review if that'll help.

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Every little helps. I did look at the MCITP but decided not to go for it as you seem to end up as a super-user for Microsoft. And CCNA needs two years experience on Networks and leads to jobs needing a good colour perception to install fibre optics. Now that is a biatch of a limiter, being colour-blind. And I have found it a show-stopper in so many ways...
 
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