After CICT think of CCNA

IT skills are essential to everyone who is seriously considering pursuing IT as a career. The down side to this is that IT is quite a new field. To be exact, the potential of IT is yet to be realized. This possess as a major challenge to those used and new to the field. One must constantly upgrade skills. Keep up-to-date with changes in the field. The changes I can bet you my Nikes, occur every single day. Every day, there are new languages, software’s and what nots that if you do not have a clue of what they are you may end up firing yourself. That’s what I hate about IT. The field is super dynamic. Worst of all companies do not know what they need when they advertise for an IT position. As long as you are employed as an IT guy, companies expect you to be a genius. To solve every godamm problem that crops up as long as it is associated with a computer peripheral. If the manager cannot log on to his Facebook account, the first person he calls is you. If the sells reps computer does not boot, you are on. This plus a series of mediocre jobs that you did not sign up for. In short, these people assume as long as you are employed in the IT department, you are and must be a guru. Know it all. The can differentiate between a web designer, a system analyst and a computer repair guy. If the motherboard of some staff gets fried, guess what, they expect you to come up with a solution like you have a magic wand or something. If not, stories reach you employer that you are incompetent and a waste of the company’s precious resources.

You get my point? If you are majoring in IT, know it all about computers. You should be able to recite the Windows code in your dreams (“hehehe Just joking”).

That’s where CCNA falls. CCNA, in long Cisco Certified Network Associate is a course developed by Cisco. If you have no clue to whom Cisco are just check your LAN cable, where it joins with a router, the router is for sure a Cisco product. Yap, Cisco is a company that deals with pretty much everything that involves networking.

CCNA is really important to every IT guy. For one apart from the obvious that you receive a certification after the course, you gain skills. If you have been keen to check the dailies on IT jobs, you would realize that companies are now more cautious when it comes to hiring. Companies are preferring certifications to a bunch of degrees. Why? Seriously? After all it has become public knowledge that degrees can be bought (After Nairobi Aviation saga). Also, these so claimed to be IT gurus who never attended a single lecture and did most of their examination under the influence of Alch… are for sure letting the REAL IT GUYS down by painting a bad image of the profession. Certification preferred in that if one is certified, he/she has the skills required, the now how, and knowledge of solving any given problem within his/her certification.

CCNA is broken up into 4 stages and it takes approximately 4 months before you complete. i.e. 1 stage per month.

 The charges are approximately ksh. 10,000-12,000, dependent on the institution. This charges are applied per stage. Meaning that to have a CCNA certification one has to pay 4 x 12,000 (Ksh.48,000). Regardless of the pricing, I strongly believe that this is an investment worth taking.  


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