Tag: Learning

• Certification Exams: Some things don’t change!

  Following the class that I was teaching one night this week I got up from my desk and sidled over to my kitchen table. I had an appointment to take a certification exam at 10:00pm, and it was nearly time to log on. Nearly, but not quite time. I had a discussion with some of…

  Mitch Garvis

  February 12, 2026

  Certification Exams, Certifications, Exams

  education, Learning

• Outside My Comfort Zone

  While my focus has of late shifted to cybersecurity, I have spent most of my teaching career focusing on Microsoft technologies. It made sense, since as an IT consultant I had always specialized in Microsoft infrastructure technologies. Even with my recent shift to infosec, I am still the go-to instructor for the Microsoft stack for…

  Mitch Garvis

  December 9, 2025

  Certification Exams, Certifications, Comfort Zones, Linux, Training

  education, Learning, life, teaching, writing

• Getting Certified: Things have really changed!

  This article was originally published to The Canadian IT Pro Connection.Boy has it been an exciting year… Microsoft’s busiest release year ever!  On the IT Pro side we have System Center 2012 (a single product now, but truly seven distinct products for managing your environment!), Windows Server 2012, Windows 8… we have Windows Azure (which…

  Mitch Garvis

  December 18, 2012

  Certifications, Certs, MCSE, Microsoft Learning, Windows Server 2012

  Certification, Learning, Microsoft, Microsoft Certified Professional, Microsoft Deployment Toolkit, Microsoft Virtual Academy, Microsoft Windows, Privte Cloud, System Center 2012, Windows InTune, Windows Server, Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2008