Nancy’s Ramblings

I took and passed the certification exam on June 2 for Windows 7, Configuring. This means I am now a Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist. I am now one step closer to graduation with the B.S. in Information Technology. [...]

I guess I was right when I figured that Java would be the next thing I needed to study for school. I need to take the Java exam by the end of March. I’m not thrilled with the short study period. I’ve started studying for it and frankly, it’s blowing my mind. LOL

Hopefully, [...]

I’ve been slowly studying for another certification – Security+ over the last few months. Today I took the exam and passed!!!!

Now onto Java [...]

I took both the CIW Foundations and the CIW Site Designer exams this morning. I passed both! The Foundations exam I did not need to take for school, because they gave me transfer credit for it, but I took it anyway because I wanted to get a specific CIW certification, and it was required for that. [...]

Well, my 5 month term break from WGU is now over and I’m back to school. This time I’m returning on financial aid – specifically on a student loan. I have never had student loans before, so this will be an interesting journey.

I have my same mentor, but WGU has made some significant changes while I’ve [...]

On Friday, I took the XP Professional exam – 20-270. I failed it by a huge margin. I’m not too upset about it though. Why? Because I knew going in that I would fail it. I have not had the time to study for the exam like I needed to. The nice thing is because this [...]

I took my Project+ certification exam yesterday and much to my surprise I passed! I had not been able to study nearly as much as I would have liked, so I was rather nervous and figured that I probably would not pass. What was even more surprising was the stuff that I had actually studied – [...]

This morning I received the voucher from school to schedule my examination for Project+ – a certification from CompTIA in Project Management for Information Techology. I scheduled my exam for Friday, October 12. That’s only a couple of weeks, but I’m hopeful that I will pass it the first try. On my pre-exam I received 47%. [...]