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There is an article that I wrote on Medium called CCSI and MCT Technical Training. Click on the link below
https://medium.com/aaron-w-dejong-it-articles/ccsi-and-mct-technical-training-164500402d9f
The article is about the process of becoming a Microsoft Certified Trainer (MCT) and a Cisco Certified Systems Instructor (CCSI).
Conferences
I have been thinking about how best to market myself and my sole proprietorship and came up with the idea of doing virtual conferences. These conferences are sometimes having a free tier. I am interested in these conferences because they allow me to go as my sole proprietorship and they help my marketing in the industry.
I am going to attend two this month, which are the VR & XR Entrepreneurship Conference and the AI Small Business Summit. These conferences are about Metaverse technologies and AI technologies, and I am excited to go to them.
The VR &XR Entrepreneurship Conference is more about the Metaverse and the accompanying technologies. The AI Small Business Summit will help me get more of a business orientation on the AI technologies in a small business setting.
Training
I am working on the training materials for the MD-102 and am still on for the exam which I have scheduled for December 4th, 2025. The training is going well, and I just finished the second readthrough of the MD-102 book.
There are some things that I am studying for my Home Lab and some that I am working on as hobbies. Thinking about doing the Docker Certified Associate sometime in the future as this will help with the Home Lab.
CCNP ENCC
I want to do more Cisco stuff and came up with doing the CCNP ENCC certification as more of a longer goal to have in around eight or nine months. I am putting together the Study Plan and will share it once I get to a good point in my studies for the ENCC which doesn’t have a book for it.
I also am working on doing a recertification for next year and want to pass the Network+ for the recertification of my A+. Another one of my goals by the end of February 2026 is to take and clear the Certified in Cybersecurity certification.
Conclusion
Studies for the Certified in Cybersecurity will resume and I will be working on the ENCC exam knowledge through notes and courses. These are on SD-WAN, VPNs and IPSec along with how it relates to AWS, Azure, and GCP (Google Cloud Platform). There are a lot of training materials on the ENCC, just not a unified certification guide.
I will be doing some more video courses on Udemy, LinkedIn Learning and YouTube videos on the topics covered. I will be working on the AZ-104 next year in preparation for the AZ-700 which is somewhat covered in the training that I have selected.
“Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
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