I'm a junior and Computer Science major at Brigham Young University Idaho. I also work in the server room as an operator and assistant server.
I'm staying over the summer, as many of us do. For the break we are allowed to work full time, and have been moved over to server management for the additional 20 hours we get.
During server operations we are just monitoring servers and are free to do whatever we want with our free time. Cushy position. But for our new server management jobs we are supposed help DO things, assignments and such. I have no assignment.
Our boss has told us it is fine to clock in anyways and get hours if we work on our own to study an better ourselves about the servers, networking, etc. But I'm at a bit of a loss.
So, this question goes to those in the industry. If you had 20 hours a week you were paid to study in your field, if you were still a student, what would you study? What holds value? How would you spend your time? Thanks.
2007-08-10 03:20:31 · 4 answers · asked by riplikash 2 in Computers & Internet ➔ Computer Networking
Here is what I would do, and really surpass everyone is to learn Scripting , VBS - MS has lots and lots of free traning online I go thought most of them. I watch the ones on VBS, using WMI, ADSI and ADO, if you can script really well, then you will not only be ahead of your class but 95 percent of all the Network Eng in this business.. here is a link to all the VBS free scriptng online webcasts that MS has out there, you don't need to buy anything, the scripting engine is already on you XP SP2 machine. "cscript.exe" , one other thing , you will need a passport account , in another words a hotmail or msn email account thats all. enjoy
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/scriptcenter/webcasts/archive.mspx#EAD
2007-08-10 03:41:07 · answer #1 · answered by Brian 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Study Windows 2003 Server and Active Directory for Windows 2003 Server. I would also look into studying Cisco routers.
2007-08-10 14:13:23 · answer #2 · answered by GJneedsanswers 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Sisco! or hell, study some Network Operating Systems *nod*
2007-08-10 10:25:51 · answer #3 · answered by Jayme D 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
same as study before networking, coding analyzing :).
getting my master's degree in IT
2007-08-10 10:25:22 · answer #4 · answered by steven25t 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋