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AWS Certification Path ratifies the expertise in the cloud to support the professionals to absorb the skills and grow knowledge in the technology. The organizations are also immensely benefited by AWS certification to create powerful teams for cloud-related initiatives with AWS. After pursuing the AWS course, you should choose from the diverse certification exams to validate your knowledge and expertise. The certification exams are developed to make individuals and teams empowered to reach their unique goals.  In this blog, we will explore the role-based certification exams for the developers, architect, cloud practitioner and operation roles and the exact AWS certification path.

Available AWS Certifications

Professional

Associate

Foundational

Specialty

Professional

It is basically a two-year exhaustive experience with the designing, training, troubleshooting and solution integration by using AWS Cloud. In the professional segment, AWS has the certifications of Solution Architect, DevOps Engineer.

Associate:

This is a one-year experience in solving problems and implementing solutions for various problematic ground. In the segment of Associate certification, certification of Solution Architect, SysOps Administrator, and Developer is included.

Foundational:

This provides the fundamental knowledge in AWS along with Cloud and industry-driven knowledge. In the fundamental segment, the certification of a Cloud Practitioner is available.

Specialty:

Technical AWS Cloud experience in Specialty domain as described in the exam guide of the certification exam. The segment of Specialty includes the certification of Advanced Networking, Big Data, Security, Machine Learning and Alexa Skill Builder.

Mt Freelance is an online, four-level video course created by Andrew Dickson and Aaron James, two former Wieden+Kennedy creatives now working as successful freelancers. This week, they’ve made their first level free to all who are new to freelancing or want to audit their approach. It’s a 50-minute introduction of nine videos worth $257.

Adobe Creative Cloud is extending its renewal grace period to 60 days for customers using its Value Incentive Plan, as well as offering free at-home access to students and teachers. Someone’s also found another discount hack and is passing it around the online freelance community – more details here.

Zwolf Strategy founder Heidi Hackemer has launched the Strategy Supper Club – a series of intimate online classes. The idea stemmed from her belief that “so much [brand strategy] training has gone out the window or is reductive”. The sessions are free but she’s collecting donations for local food banks as part of the program. More information can be found here.

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Marc Lewis, founder and dean of the School of Communication Arts, has created a virtual studio for his students to work in while coronavirus hits south London. It features digital tables, whiteboards and even a Dean’s office. The technology works so well that he’s offering up the platform to freelancers who are interested in running a webinar mentor class. These sessions will be ticketed, and the money raised will go directly to the presenter. Those interested can sign up through a short survey here.

It is important for engineers to know what the future of an industry looks like before diving in. Here is a gist of what the work world would be in the coming years. The IT engineers (software, hardware and networking engineers) have contributed a great deal to the Indian economy.

The immense contribution to the country

Indirectly or directly, the IT sector adds about

• 10% of the gross domestic product.

• This means 25% of exports and employing over 13 million people.

• 60% of this contribution comes from smaller IT companies.

• 35% of the work force comprises of women, making it one of the most diverse sectors in India.

• Today, India is the world’s greatest global sourcing destination with about 3.7 million direct employees who work in the IT-ITES industry.

While everything looked hunky-dory, automation along with several other challenges took over in the recent 2-3 years.

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A research survey by TCS stated that in the near future, AI is bound to becoming an essential component in the IT industry, taking over operations in several IT companies. Full stack developers are also in great demand owing to the thinning of resources being hired. What contribution India can make to the global talent pool of new technologies is yet to be seen. This has created a new wave of the big IT Indian players who are looking for new methods to adopt changes while also looking to see how business models need to be revamped to accommodate these changes.

With free virtualization tools like VirtualBox, you can have multiple virtual machines (VMs), complete with their own boot sequences and isolated storage. One of the most popular things to do with virtual machines is to run different operating systems on one computer without needing to reboot.

It’s pretty easy to create a VM on Windows to create a virtual environment to run Linux in. VMs are easy to manage, and when you’re done using them, you can delete them. You can even back up copies of the entire virtualized (guest) operating system if you need to.

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If you’ve never used VirtualBox before, Virtualbox is a cinch to set up. Once you have it installed in Windows 10, you can set up a VM in a couple minutes with VirtualBox’s wizard. The VirtualBox manual’s step-by-step instructions are a great resource if you’re not quite sure where to start.
While using VirtualBox is a great way to try out one or more Linux distributions, there are some disadvantages. Virtualization comes with a performance hit due to overhead, though this is reduced if your CPU has virtualization support built-in. Intel calls its virtualization support VT-x, while AMD’s is called AMD-V. To take advantage of this technology, you also have to make sure that virtualization support is enabled on your motherboard (in the UEFI or BIOS) as well.

A network switch is a simple device that houses a set number of Ethernet ports. These can be used to connect many devices with RJ45 ports. Your PC, TV, printer, consoles and other smart devices will more than likely have an Ethernet port that can be used to create a more stable connection. While Wi-Fi has come a long way over the past decade, it still doesn't beat a wired connection. Should you be happy with the wireless performance of your router, a switch probably isn't for you.

Network Switches are designed for homeowners or the office to create physically connected networks. A switch will take control over traffic management and provide some advanced network features that your ISP supplied router may lack, further enhancing performance. 

There are two types of switches on the market: managed and unmanaged. The former is for advanced users who know what they're doing and need to fine-tune settings on the switch for the network. An unmanaged switch is the better option for home-owners since it'll largely handle everything with little to no human input.

The trends in 2020 are many and they include:

1. The IT skill shortage will drive automation and innovation. Given that the economy is flourishing, this presents challenges finding and retaining key IT personnel. Resources are in short supply. CIOs and CISOs will search for automated solutions that streamline various processes and tasks.  Off-shore solutions also provide a medium for dealing with the personnel shortage.  Many organizations are outsourcing software engineering to free up staff to focus on security, strategic planning, etc.
2. Cloud Computing: As organizations continue to look to the cloud to quickly implement new technologies, security for cloud and hybrid cloud solutions will become increasingly important.  The cost, flexibility and speed of deployment are very attractive to organizations as they struggle to meet business demands while keeping costs lower.  Cloud-based solutions are often the perfect fit.  However, we must not sacrifice security for the sake of cost savings and/or flexibility.
3. Data privacy will create demand for new business solutions. Most organizations are tuned into the idea of ensuring consumer, customer and employee data privacy is reality. According to research, approximately 45% of all organizations consider data privacy as their top priority in 2020.  Many failures and enhanced legislation is driving this need home.  New and innovations solutions are on the horizon as key vendors help provide solutions to this complex problem.
4. Ransomware will continue to rise. In 2020, ransomware attacks will become even more prevalent and sophisticated. Organizations that collect and store a lot of personally identifiable data such as those in the healthcare and finance will be targeted. To mitigate the threat, organizations must implement measures to ensure fast detection of ransomware attacks and enable prompt recovery. At IT 4 the Planet we define those measures as “Pro-Active”…what must be done to try and avoid an attack and “Re-active”….what must be done if attacked (an Incident Response Plan).
5. AI-based solutions will be a new target for attacks. Artificial Intelligence (AI) is a term we are hearing frequently. AI is defined as the theory and development of computer systems able to perform tasks that normally require human intelligence, such as visual perception, speech recognition, decision-making, and translation between languages.  As organizations implement more solutions based on artificial intelligence (AI)  various entities and individuals will be experimenting with ways to misuse those solutions. As an example,  vendors need these results to improve cybersecurity, hackers will use them to conduct attacks.
6. Security training will become paramount. Organizations must invest in cybersecurity training and consulting to minimize the risk of data breaches due to employee mistakes. Key IT personnel and vendors must collaborate on new ways of helping organizations to better train it’s people and partners. Senior Management must drive this home by providing appropriate budgets and direction.
7. IT teams will make more investment in IT solutions and security. Organizations will see increases in budgets. CIO ‘s will need to ensure any investments in this area bring value to the business.   To demonstrate enhanced productivity, reduced compliance costs and enhanced IT efficiency, they will develop key metrics and KPIs to report to management.
8. Senior Leadership must get on board. Senior management is a tough job.  There are literally dozens of people, customers, employees and partners looking for attention regarding many subjects and initiatives.  Part of the solution to make that process easier is innovation and creativity.  Senior staff must provide direction and support to IT organizations.  This must include increased spending for security and spending in other key areas to ensure their organization is prepared to deal with growth and the enhanced security threat posed by hackers from all over the world.  Additionally, IT Governance should become a standard process.   The objective of IT Governance is to ensure the delivery of business results not “IT systems performance” nor “IT risk management”- that would reinforce the notion of IT as an end in itself. To the contrary, IT Governance is about IT decisions that have an impact on business value.

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I am excited to share that today VMware introduced the most comprehensive software stack for modern applications – the VMware Tanzu portfolio, VMware Cloud Foundation 4 and vSphere 7. These offerings provide a new way for organizations to think about their application modernization initiatives.

This is incredibly important to customers as they are continually grappling with the challenge to better meet the needs of their customers. To do that they are increasingly called to deliver applications more quickly and reduce the time to market.

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VMware vSphere IconOur customers who are most successful in meeting the changing needs of their customers simultaneously work on two initiatives: modernize their approach to applications, and modernize the infrastructure that those applications run on, to meet the needs of their developers and IT teams.

As part of these initiatives, customers want to gain the benefits of a cloud operating model, which means having rapid, self-service access to infrastructure, simple lifecycle management, security, performance, and scalability.

This is exactly what vSphere now provides. vSphere 7 is the biggest release of vSphere in over a decade and delivers these innovations and the rearchitecting of vSphere with native Kubernetes that we introduced at VMworld 2019 as Project Pacific.

The headline news is that vSphere now has native support for Kubernetes, so you can run containers and virtual machines on the same platform, with a simple upgrade of the system that you’ve currently standardized on and adopting VMware Cloud Foundation. In addition, this release is chock-full of new capabilities focused on significantly improving developer and operator productivity, regardless of whether you are running containers.

Microsoft Windows users

1. Open any of the Office applications, such as Word, Excel, or PowerPoint.
2. Create a new document.
3. Choose File in the upper-left corner, and then select either Account or Help from the list to the left.
4. Under Product Information, the Office product name and the full version number is shown.
5. If you do not your version in the current window, select About Word, About Excel, About PowerPoint, etc., and a new dialogue box should open that contains the full version number.

The nearly exponential growth of technology, coupled with a new affordability, has revolutionized the PC industry. More than at any other time in the past, our lives are wired (and also wireless). Whether in the home or office, and even on the go, PCs are here to stay; and the future demand for qualified people to support, maintain, and provide other services for these PCs remains modest but ongoing.
Employers are always on the lookout for savvy PC Technicians to help them not only support their users and to maintain custom in-house systems and applications as well, but also to provide outward-facing customer repair depot and support services.
So, what are employers looking for in an "ideal" PC technician? While the individual requirements will vary from company to company and job to job, we compiled a list of highly desirable characteristics and skillsets that most employers would like to see in an "ideal"—or "perfect"—PC technician candidate.
This checklist should give you a good idea of the kinds of things that prospective employers are not only looking for but also expect to find in their PC technicians. While none of us can claim total perfection, you can get close to walking-on-water status if your skills meet or exceed everything outlined below.

At $86,320, the median annual wage for information technology jobs is more than double the pay for all U.S. occupations ($38,640). Additionally, IT is one of the rare industries where salaries continue to rise year after year, and the 1.9% unemployment rate for tech professionals is well below the 4% national average.*

Use these pages to research salaries for the hottest IT career paths and compare earnings by location, experience, technical competency, job role, certifications and more.

Chart your worth in a range of IT job markets with continually updated wage data, apply to information technology jobs nationwide, and find computer training and degree programs to maximize your earnings.

The average salary as per payscale for Systems Architect is $107,824 per annum. Working as part-time can be a tremendous option as well. In the telecom arena, top freelance marketplaces like FieldEngineer.com provides you the best atmosphere for freelance Systems Architect.