one of the best ways to get started nit
to jump into an i.t career is to get an
i.t certification but which one cameron
oh you can't
cameron doesn't know so we set camera on
a task to scour the internet to figure
out hey what are the best entry-level
certifications to help you get started
to make that change into the best career
in the world now not all entry-level
certifications are equal and they get
you started in different places cameron
what are our five categories the five
paths that we decided to look at were
help desk security networking cloud and
ethical hacking my personal favorite now
honestly it's kind of hard to say what
the best it certification is so to make
our choice we consider this criteria how
popular is the certification do people
even know about it what's the
marketability will people actually hire
you if you have this certification also
is it going to teach you anything are
you going to develop knowledge and
skills from actually taking the
certification and then finally this is
kind of redundant to our other points
are there any jobs you can actually get
with this certification how many are out
there how many are actually looking for
this so without further ado here are our
five top entry level certifications to
get into it in 2022. cameron get us
started with the help desk nine times
out of ten your first job in it is going
to be on the help desk taking calls
learning a ton it is your gateway into
it yep that's where i started that's
where cameron started and probably more
likely than not that's going to be where
you start and also no matter where you
want to go in it from the hacker to the
cloud cloud this is where you start so
the best certification to get you on
that help desk is the one i got it's a
one camera got what is it it is the
comptia a plus certification whew and
it's a doozy it's pretty heavy
to get the a plus certification you're
gonna have to take two exams and each of
those cost 226 usd at the time of this
recording when going for your a plus you
can expect to learn about networking
operating systems security and mobile
devices but just the basics not anything
crazy like you're getting a foundation
but you're not going to know a ton about
it you'll know enough to be maybe not
even dangerous but you know enough to
know people are talking about now what's
cool is you can look for an average
salary of about 53 000 per year that's
that's a lot very good for help desk oh
yeah so to recap if you're looking to
get your start in it or you're making a
change from some other career the
comptia a plus is a fantastic option to
help you make that that jump now before
we jump into the other it certifications
like i don't know ethical hacking and
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one of the hottest areas in it and has
been this hot for a long time is
security everyone wants to get their
start in security and one of the best
certifications to start you out to lay
that foundation for everything you'll do
what is it cameron the security plus
security plus so just like the comptia a
plus the security plus is an entry-level
cert that is meant to give you your
foundation in cyber security so don't
expect to be a hacking expert from
getting your security plus but it will
lay that solid foundation you need to
step forward in your security career and
if you're brand new to the security
realm yeah i think you need it because
it'll give you the good understanding
you need on attacks vulnerabilities
threats and a lot of other stuff the
reason we chose the security plus is
because it's really popular hiring
managers love it and it checks that one
little box for you to get those
government security jobs not to mention
big companies like netflix and target
helped out with the development of this
example
he's laughing at me shut up i kept i i
had a hard time saying that one
contributed to the next i adapted
netflix and target helped
contribute contributed to the
development i cannot say on netflix and
um and target contributed to the
development okay i lost it there
companies like that ah you want me to
say it no i got it i got it to the
development of i cannot say that
now to get security plus it's kind of
expensive it's one exam and it costs 381
dollars for some reason where's that one
dollar going i don't know
now let's talk about networking
something so dear to mine and cameron's
heart and honestly there's probably no
surprise here on what certification you
need to get started in networking
cameron what is a certification
go
now now's when you say it
line
the certification that we chose for
networking is the cisco certified
networking associate or otherwise known
as the ccna
you said it now this one i love and i'm
not kidding when i say i think it's one
of the best iot certifications out there
period it's one of those that if you put
this on your resume you are highly
sought after very very valuable now
cameron the cisco ccna it's not an easy
exam how is it for you back whenever i
took the ccna it was actually two tests
but now it's one test but i heard now
it's more uh it's more broad it's not
necessarily as deep but it still covers
a lot of the real good meaty topics that
you need for learning networking and
cisco equipment and it also expands on
other technologies like security and
cloud and even a bit of programming for
the devops stuff coming up in networking
or devnet ops so i thought it was net
devops it may be net devops one of those
things and as cameron said to get the
ccna it will be one exam and that exam
will cost you 300
but it is one of those certifications
that opens a door to becoming a network
admin or network engineer
and again you're going to be crazy
valuable now we're on to something that
cameron absolutely loves
the cloud and again there's probably no
surprise here in which certification you
chose but the best one to get started in
2022 in the cloud what is a cam so the
best entry-level certification that i
chose for cloud is the aws cloud
practitioner
period now personally i like azure but
aws is the biggest it cloud provider out
there so it makes sense to go with them
for your cloud journey or just at least
to start it because that's where cameron
started and um you became a cloud
engineer i never got this shirt
i never got the cloud partition i
skipped it
and if you're new to cloud this is the
best certification for you to break into
that industry and it also is the best to
not break the bank because the cert is
only a hundred dollars it's pretty cheap
and it's got a ton of knowledge and
because aws is the largest cloud
provider right now
it makes sense to go with them to start
your cloud journey and if it wasn't
obvious already the last industry we
wanted to talk about is ethical hacking
it's our favorite
and honestly it's one of the most fun to
break into it's not a pun now this video
is not sponsored by comptia but
the exam we write or the certification
we recommend for jumping into ethical
hacking is
pen test plus
that one pin test plus now we just did
an interview with john hammond talking
about what the best entry-level ethical
hacking certifications are and it's
hotly debated but the reason we chose
the pentest plus is because first of all
it's marketable people care about it
comptia has done an extraordinary job at
making sure they are the go-to for
entry-level stuff now we don't recommend
the pen test plus as your first ever
certification we do recommend and so
does comptia they recommend getting your
security plus first or even having a
little bit of pre-requisite pen testing
knowledge because while it is an entry
level certification for ethical hacking
ethical hacking is more of an advanced
step after you've laid that foundation
from like the help desk comptia a plus
certification security plus so it's more
advanced but it's still an entry level
for that initial step into ethical
hacking and just like the security plus
this is only one exam and they have
decided to follow the same odd number
pricing structure where the exams are
only 381. yep that one dollar goes to
hacking so that's our list if you want
to get started at nit in 2022 you want
to break into this industry because it's
by far the best industry in the world
trust me you don't need college for this
stuff you don't need really anything
just jump into it and i'm pretty
confident it's gonna change your life so
anyways let us know what you think of
our list did we miss anything do you not
like what we chose let us know below and
also you're probably wondering how do
you get these certifications how do you
start studying for these
we recommend using our training provider
itprotv
but for real it's what i use to study
and keep up to date and if you're
looking to break into the industry they
have training for pre yeah actually you
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yes check it out check it out anyways
that's all we have today i got some
coffee my beard it's okay though we'll
catch you guys next time see you later
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