SkillsTrain N+ Course

This month my life has drastically changed, I have been so busy with my children and the news that I am expecting baby number 3, I fully expected my course to have taken a back seat this month but I have amazed myself by sending in tma02 and gaining 90%, I have also just sent in tma03 and am now halfway through studying or tma04. I am so proud of myself this month and I am now determined to speed my way through the rest of my course and get ready to take my first IT related job! Thank you for making this course so enjoyable!

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I have a degree in Computer Science but I applied for the CCNP course because I just wanted the certificate to land myself a good job. I did not expect it to be very different from what I covered during my degree and just after two months into my course I found this really bad review of the training online. I actually thought I had just lost my money but I just thought I should continue with my studies since I had already registered.

I am now a year into my course, I am about to finish CCNA. Sticking with the course is probably one of the most brilliant decisions I have ever made. The course content is brilliant, far from what I covered during my degree, the live labs are fantastic and make me confident to face real world situations. The support that I get from the tutors is marvelous; the work gets marked really fast and the emails are replied to almost the same day I send. This has encouraged me a lot. Combining full-time work and studying has not been very easy, I really appreciate your encouragement. My average mark since Network + is above 87%. I will be sitting for my Network + exam next month and I am sure I will do very well.

My boss is very supportive and because she knows the course I am doing she lets me sort computer related problems for anyone in our team before she refers the problem to our IT team. I am confident that after this course I will get a better job than I have now, I am working as an Information Room Assistant at the Careers Service of Oxford University.

For all those who have come across bad reviews and feel discouraged, don't lose heart, the courses are exactly, May be more than, what you are told before you start, just concentrate on your studies, submit your TMAs, ask your Tutors when something is not clear and you will find that the course is all you were looking for and you are on your way to a brighter future.

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In November 2005 I sat both CompTIA A+ Core Hardware and OS Technologies exams covering the 2003 objectives. I just managed to pass the OS Technologies exam but failed the Core Hardware exam. I was very disappointed but soon put it behind me and continued to study my N+ coursework. I had forgotten all about the Core Hardware exam until I received an email on 11th May from CompTIA reminding me that I had until 30th June to complete my 2003 certification.
As I had already passed the OS Technologies it would be foolish not to push for certification before the expiry date, so I booked the Core Hardware exam for 28th June. For a Month and a half I have studied like a man possessed, and today being the 28th June I am very pleased to see my report in front of me which gives me a candidate score of 872 !!
Happy days.

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This last week my course material has come in handy on 3 occasions. 1st, at work we needed a new user account setting up on the server due to a new member joining us. I called the help desk and under the contract they do not support new user accounts free of charge. So I decided to log on to the server computer myself, access the Active Directory and create a new user template and e-mail account. I then went to the new terminal, logged on then went through the motions of telling the computer that it would need to be logged on via a domain not a workgroup. This worked a treat and so far is working 100%.

2nd, My old PC would not power up and after reading the section on motherboards and CPU's I narrowed the power up issue to be with one of the two. I purchased a new motherboard installed it, put my old CPU in and connected it all up, and it powers up well, But I needed to reinstall Win XP so I had to go into the start up menu before the XP logo is on screen to tell it to boot from the CD drive. I now have a spare fully working PC.

3rd. This morning I arrived at work to find that the e-mails were down. The internet would connect but not the mails. I told all users to log out so I could reboot the server. This fixed the problem and we had emails working before the IT support company got back to us with possible solutions.

All in all I am really pleased with myself and it just proves that if you want to learn something anything is possible.

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I enrolled with Skillstrain believing that I already knew what I needed to know in Information Technology as I already had a Diploma Certificate in Information Technology and was on an ICT Degree Course with the Open University, but I was proved wrong. I had been struggling to get a skilled job since, but now, I am proud to say that I just got employed by one of the biggest energy companies in the UK and worldwide. All thanks to Skillstrain for helping me to brush up my IT skills. I was able to pass both the written and oral interviews, which were mostly IT based. I am currently undertaking the N+, and soon, I will be starting the CCNA and CCNP. I intend completing them and sitting for the professional exams. Keep it up Skillstrain.

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When I started with this course, I lacked directional focus and couldn't submit my assignment regularly. With an ardent determination to finish the course within the normal stipulated time, I resolved last month to submit at least one assignment within a week. Currently, I am doing just that and now have to wait on my tutors to finish marking the previous assignment before submitting the next one which has been done few days ahead of submission.
I am completing the first part of the course this week, passing each of the assignments with good grade and with only one attempt!
I am so excited about this.

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I moved here from South Africa last year and got work in a warehouse. One night I was sitting and thinking to myself how much in life I took for granted. When the opportunity to study was there I never took it. Now I am thirty two years old, married and have two children. Life is going past me and I have nothing, but then I got the skillstrain leaflet throught the door and I signed up for the CCNP course. The beginning was hard but now I have done seven assignments and it is going very well. I always thought that a working man will have trouble studing, but to my suprise its not. It is more fun to study than to sit in front of the telly. Thank you skills train for giving all of us working people the chance to make some thing of our life and for showing us that there will always be a opportunity.

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I throught that the computer hardware aspect area is a "no go" area for me, I even use to think those people who repair or assemble computers are wizards, but the way Skill Train has organised its course material is awesome. It has really broken everything relating to the computer hardware into simple understandable parts for me. Though I have not realy known how to carry out this arrangements practically but I now understands how this parts relate to one another. And I believe that at the end of my course, and after attending the practical class, I should have become one of those "wizards" as well.

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I WORK 12 -16 HOURS A DAY AS A DRIVER AND I AM AWAY MOST OF THE WEEK . IT HAS BEEN HARD FOR ME TO KEEP UP MY STUDIES AND SOMETIMES A BIT SLOWER THAN PROBABLY MOST STUDENTS BUT I HAVE STILL MANAGED TO KEEP AN AVERAGE OF ABOUT 90%. SINCE I DID'NT KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT THE INSIDE OF A COMPUTER I HAVE LEARNED ALOT AND I AM STILL LEARNING.

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My main aim of joining Skill Train is to become a certified technician as well as own a small business of my one day - having said that I can now see my dreams coming through. I started by sorting out friends and relatives computer problems, but recently it has now spread to people calling me on the phone.The publicity I am getting which is down to friends that I have helped free of charge is making me happy and my toubleshooting skills have grown from strenght to strenghth.

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I enrolled as a skills train student on the A+ certification and N+ certification course in Januray 2007 and have also been looking for employment, since then and have been called in by many people for interviews which is really pleasing. Thanks to skills train I am now able to develop my skills and expertise further in the IT field and am able to progress I know what I want to do in the near future now.

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I am going to start this on a bad note in 1997 I was suffering with my back at work, my doctor sent me to hospital were I had a x-ray and was told that I had kidney stones, they put me on a drip for 4 days but at the end I had not passed any stones so I was sent home and told to go back to work.

I returned, but my work included a lot of lifting and after a few hours I was on the floor in pain and an ambulance was called which took me to a different hospital, they put me through a cat scan which showed 2 prolapsed disc's and I was taken in and operated on the next day, this put me down hill very quickly as I could not do my job anymore, but I found skillstrain and signed up for the A+ N+, this was going great until last year when I was diagnosed with IBS so I had to stop the course as I felt down in the dumps and thought why should I carry on.

I started going to a councilor who helped me get my head back on track, so I started the course from the start again thanks to skillstrain allowing me to do this, on Monday the 16th I am going into hospital to have a camera put down my throat as they have seen a lump in my stomach on a scan that I had, I just hope that it is not what I am thinking it could be. but after all these illnesses I am still going to pass my courses as they don't stop me from working on computers or talking to a client, so if you feel down in the dumps there is always something you can do to pick yourself back up.
At the start of my course I took on as many courses as I could one was to become a web site builder which I passed using frontpage, this will help me with the N+, but now my head is only on the A+.

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Having worked in the mining industry since 1979 until being made redundant in 1986, I was unemployed for a period of time. In 1990 I returned to the mining industry until a severe accident in 1991 finally put me out of work for some 3-4 years. During this time my wife gave birth to our youngest son, who was born at 27 weeks, some 13 weeks premature. I soon realised that my prospects of employment had been dramatically reduced due to age and ability or should I say disability. It was at this time that I decided to take steps towards widening my prospects on the job market by retraining for a new career.

It was then that a leaflet about Skillstrain popped through the letterbox. I decided to give the number a call, and within a few days a representative was with me explaining the courses available and the qualifications it was possible to gain. I didn't need time to think, I was so impressed with what was on offer I signed up there and then. That was in July 2006, and now April 2007 I have almost completed my studies for the A+ and feel confident that I will pass the exam. I am really looking forward to starting the second part of my course, which is the N+, and hope to do as well with that as I have done on the A+. Thank you Skillstrain for showing me that life doesn't end just because of personal trials and tribulations. I won't say it has been easy, but what it has done is show me and maybe many other people out there that learning a new skill is more than possible.

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