Calvin.Lee
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Hi all,
I am 45 this year have only N level cert but I'm very interested and have great passion in IT network and system administration , looking to take up a course with the fastest and shortest way in order to meet up with my age. Any recommendations and advises ? My aim is to actually do freelance or start up my own business in future.
It also depends on what freelance and what business you are going to do and start up respectively.
I will assume you are going to do IT freelance for networking and providing server hosting (websites, applications, etc) services and eventually starting up your own business in providing these services in a larger scale.
The NYP part-time diploma course does give you very good basic foundation in IT Network, Voice over IP, Network Security and System Administration with some Cloud Computing knowledge.
These skill sets you learn in the part time diploma course is not enough to help you start up your freelancing and business immediately upon graduating if IT Network, System Administration, Cloud Computing, Voice over IP and Network Security are all new to you. It is not enough to sit for these industry certifications just based on the lectures, labs, tutorials and tests. You will need to do self learning more.
Please note the diploma course (all part time diploma) is design to be "working adult learning friendly" so exams cannot be too tough to pass. If tough to pass then very few will sign up for it as many will not waste their time because let's be honest, most are only interested in getting the diploma irregardless of results due to people have different priorities and commitments in life.
As much as I like everything about this NYP part time diploma course, I must let you know what to expect of in terms of expectations.
I believe that if you have passion and determination in learning, nothing can stop you from achieving the good results and gain great knowledge!