Information Technology Roadmap

Information Technology Roadmap

There are some aspects of information technology that are more relevant for building a career roadmap. Depending on how you want to go about it you can tailor your roadmap to the IT career that you want to be in. This roadmap will help guide you in your career. When setting up a roadmap there are things that you will want to do like getting a broad IT skill set that will help you in your career.

Roadmap

The way that I went about it was to do the CompTIA ITF+ and then the A+ was next. The things that I was doing would correlate with the Tech+ and the current version of the CompTIA A+ exam. I would also recommend putting in at least one cloud certification like the AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner or the AZ-900.

I did this to understand more about the underlying technology in hardware and software components of PCs. This has helped develop more skills as I now hold ten certifications in IT. The path that I am taking was thought out more along the fundamental pathways for Azure, AWS, Linux, and Cisco certifications.

My Own Roadmap

I want to be able to help guide your journey and allow you to see how I am going about my own roadmap. You don’t necessarily need to have ten certifications, but you would need both skills and certifications. The reason that I am going about doing these certifications is so that I can tailor my roadmap more towards a CIO, CTO or CISO job role which is something that would need deep technical knowledge.

One of the things that I am doing is focusing more on the Cisco and Microsoft technologies before other certification paths. This will be something that can help with Cloud Networking and Network Security which are two of the subjects that I am pursuing. Later on I might do Network Forensics but want to save that for future studies.

Building Your Roadmap

For your own roadmap, I would recommend that you start with the fundamentals and get a wider view of Information Technology. This should be before you decide what skills and certifications you would need to have on your own roadmap. Going broadly in IT has helped my own business as I can do more roles as needed and understand the technical side of my content writing business.

Conclusion

Giving something back is what the next part of my journey is about. This advice to tailor your own career by tailoring your roadmap will help in your career journey and future in IT. By taking the time to understand and plan what you want to do with your career you can gather the skills and certifications needed for your career.