Training Update
I’ve been studying for the Certified in Cybersecurity and MD-102 certifications. The MD-102 is the Microsoft 365 Endpoint Administrator Associate certification which is something that will help me progress with the MS-900 that I passed in 2023.
The main certification on the MD-102 pathway is the MS-102 which is the Microsoft 365 Administrator Expert. This is one of my skill-based goals and I will continue into doing the SC-300 and SC-401 which are optional prerequisites to the MS-102.
With my study plans on these certifications, I am reading more. I want to take the Certified in Cybersecurity in November and within 2-3 months take the MD-102. I am having a good pace on the study plans and should do a good job on both certifications regardless of if I pass them.
n8n-ollama-project
I am using this project more for a hobby project and have been learning more than anything on some Udemy courses that are on n8n, prompt engineering, Ollama, and Docker. These courses will help me gain some knowledge that I will pursue as a hobby. I will update my public GitHub repository on this project which is at dejongaaron/n8n-ollama-project.
90-day streak on TryHackMe
Today, I hit the 90-day streak on TryHackMe and received a badge that I have shared on my LinkedIn, Facebook, and X feeds. There are some more rooms that I have completed and am at 300 rooms, with 44 badges. I am also ranked all-time in all countries at 5422 with being 679 in the United States.
Udemy and HacktheBox
Not getting the weekly streak to update on Udemy, it is stuck at 179 weeks for me. I am putting up the hours still, so I am not sure what is going on with that. I am utilizing the opportunity for the personal plan to go more in depth in certain areas as far as my hobby project.
On HacktheBox, I am still plugging away at the CJCA training. I am at 72.24% done on the Junior Cybersecurity Analyst job role path. I am interested more in Cybersecurity and want to pursue the CJCA certification.
Conclusion
I will be looking at doing the certifications in the next few months. I am thinking about doing the CCNA Cybersecurity next year and maybe the Security+. Not sure if I want to do computer networking as much, it seems that I want to do more of a Ruby Developer kind of path along with Cybersecurity.
I have been using Gemini to create some 15-year career progressions to figure out which paths I want to go down. These progressions lead to a CTO, CISO or CIO role in the future which is still something that I am striving towards. I think that using AI is more of an assistive technology and want to develop my skills with hobby projects using AI to future proof my career.