I’m one of those people who moved sideways into IT back in the last century, when that happened a lot of the time. All my learning has been on the job and on my own, but nothing official. I’ve started on Google training courses - planning to take the Administrator exam in the next week or so. After that I’m going to start on Google Trainer - two things I’ve been doing for five years in my job, but now I want the certification. Next up after Google is Microsoft.
I work in a school and do everything short of managing the servers for around 300 users - supporting them on variety of devices - windows, mac and chrome OS - and all the other classroom technology.
I’ve looked into some courses, but would like input on which others have actually found useful. Suggestions?
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mr-burnz
(MR.Burnz)
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You can try Lynda online courses I herd from a fellow system admin was not bad. The other day i stumbled on Pluralsight haven’t tried it out yet.
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This all depends on what it is you want to do/what field you want to go into. A lot of fields out there have training specific to that area of IT. For example, if you want to go into websites and design, you’ll fine the website W3 or whatever it is has a lot of training articles and videos.
If you can provide more details, we can reply with better options. 
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jimdandy
(James Fisher)
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https://www.pluralsight.com/ - Subscription model
https://www.cybrary.it/ -Free
Both have a wide variety of topics. Pluralsight does have a trial demo.
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sammorris2
(ILoveTechnology2017)
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Udemy is pretty good. They are always having their courses on sale for $10. I’ve bought a bunch of their VMware courses and they’ve been really good. I would recommend it.
Lynda.com is pretty good. They offer a program to libraries that will sometimes allow you to get a free membership when you sign up for a library card. Check some of your local libraries to see if they offer this program.
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Thanks for the suggestions. I’ll look into it!
pbp
(RoguePacket)
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Goes back to the classics: Where have you been? Where are you? Where do you want to go? How much time & resources can you put into training?
Being at a school, it may be apprenticed people have preferred learning times. For instance, trying to study or lab after an exhausting day of work tends not to be conducive to most people. Yet, early morning hours can be; hence, it can be viable to carve out a few productive studying hours before the usual workday until you clear a few certification targets of interest.
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Interesting choice,. Didn’t know that existed.
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Guessing MCSA and/or MCSE is meant?
Those are notoriously tricksey in questions’ wording and phrasing. At a minimum, one would expect to pick up the standard MS Press books, and lab, lab, lab.
Helps to pick a few study and lab sources for broad exposure. Expect to study and lab every day until your sit for the cert test and pass successfully.
