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ECrew28

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IT Training
« on: October 31, 2012, 02:16:24 PM »
From following this board for a bit, it seems like there are quite a few current and former IT folks.  Well, I am still a current IT folk, primarily on the Virtualization and Windows side of things.  I was wondering if any of you had any secret (legal) honey stashes of IT training materials.  I'm not asking specifically for your materials, more so the sites you have found the best materials on.  I have looked at placed like TrainSignal and GlobalKnowledge, and that stuff is just too much out of pocket.  Anyway, just thought I would put it out there and see what comes back. 
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Re: IT Training
« Reply #1 on: October 31, 2012, 02:27:11 PM »
Depends on what sort of training materials you're wanting. If you come over to the dark side and join us Unix beards, nearly all the best resource and training materials for BSD and Linux gearheads are community driven and free, and some are just a single
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man [options]command away... they're just not very non-technical or noob friendly (well, except for the Ubuntu crowd... but that's more desktop stuff than server management).

Most of my Redmond-based training crap cost me an arm and a leg to access back in the day if I couldn't BS through it on my own.

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Re: IT Training
« Reply #2 on: October 31, 2012, 06:49:19 PM »
Lynda is very good, and your library should have a subscription such that you can use it for free.

Linux eats, breathes, and lives free, so the free fantastic linux opportunities are more plentiful. If you're trying to learn about how an OS works, Linux From Scratch can't be beat, for example.

Have you monkeyed around in a virtualbox VM? It's free and great, and doing so is really very educational.
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Re: IT Training
« Reply #3 on: October 31, 2012, 09:16:15 PM »
It really depends on your end goal for what you want to learn.

Do you want to dive deeper with virtualization? You want to learn scripting? security? networking? enterprise storage? software development? There are dozens of potential focal points.

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Re: IT Training
« Reply #4 on: November 01, 2012, 09:45:02 AM »
google....

I'm in the middleware on 'nix space - for most anything unix/linux its man or google

 i tend to like the manufacturers guides for certain things.  ibm redbooks are free to download and great resources for their products - www.ibm.com/redbooks and the oracle docs are good for weblogic/glassfish - and then newsgroups answers, found of course through google...

for book books i'm a fan of the o'reilly stuff - and vmware has some free eductation they offer, just took a rabbit mq thing through that

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Re: IT Training
« Reply #5 on: November 01, 2012, 01:08:36 PM »
For basic IT stuff, ProfessorMessor.com has videos for A+, N+, Security+ and the first Windows 7 track test (forget the exam number) for free.
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Re: IT Training
« Reply #6 on: November 01, 2012, 02:02:16 PM »
It's not free, but my company actually bought a license for me - so free to me. I'm currently using Testout.com, it uses a combo of online lectures, simulated labs and is working really well for me so far. For their entire Library of certification info, the cost is about $1200 on special and access is good for 3 years. You can also just do a single cert program (about$500-$700) if that's all you need. They have CompTIA, Cisco, Microsoft, Linux certs... Not the cheapest option, but a lot cheaper than GlobalKnowledge or some other vendor where you would have a live instructor. I like it because I can go at my own pace and study anywhere.
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Re: IT Training
« Reply #7 on: November 02, 2012, 11:26:07 AM »
Quote from: Kazak on November 01, 2012, 02:02:16 PM
It's not free, but my company actually bought a license for me - so free to me. I'm currently using Testout.com, it uses a combo of online lectures, simulated labs and is working really well for me so far.
I got the network+ with a class I took online through CSU Global. After I did that I bought the MCTIP server admin course for $1k (3 exam preps). I like it and it works well for people in the field. I'm not sure it is comprehensive enough to hand to someone who has no IT experience though. DNS and certificates would have been pretty tough if it weren't for my previous experience with web hosting for example.
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