Friday, January 8, 2010

Highest Paying IT Certifications for 2009

This article about the highest paying IT certifications in 2009 was taken from certificationsblog.com

1. PMP ( Project Management Professional)

PMP certification is designed to demonstrate strong level of project management and leadership skills. PMP is with an average annual salary of $101,695, this certification is leading the list of highest paying certification of this year.

2. CAPM ( Certified Associate Project Management)

Next highest paying is PMI’s certification known as Certified Associate in Project Management. CAPM certification holders surveyed have an average annual salary of $101,103.

3. ITIL v2 – Foundations

ITIL v2 Foundations certification came at 3 rd position with an average annual salary of $95,415. ITIL stands for IT Infrastructure library. More information about this certification can be found here

4. CISSP ( Certified Information System Security Professional)

CISSP with an average salary of $94,018 came at number 4 in the highest paying certifications list. CISSP is also known as “gold standard” in security certifications and it is handled by ICS2 (International Information Systems Security Certification Consortium). This is called baseline certification recognized by department of defense and national security agency.

5. Cisco CCIE Certification ( Routing and Switching)

Cisco CCIE Routing and Switching came at number 5 with an average salary of $93,500 in IT industry. Routing and switching are specialized tracks in cisco certified networking expert certification. It is the most famous CCIE track these days covering wide range of subjects, such as LAN, WAN, TCP/IP, Ethernet, OSPF and BGP, IPv6 etc.

7 Tools to Better Manage Your Social Networks

This article is from CIO.com.au.

"When you belong to several social networking sites-Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter-(and don't we all?), keeping up with them can seem overwhelming.

Tweet this. Update that status. Share a link here. If you've resolved to get more organized this year, consider these seven tools that save time and streamline your social networking interactions.

My picks: For easy content sharing across platforms, be sure to check out is the browser plugin Shareaholic. And for simple synching and updating of multiple accounts, Atomkeep seems to be the most efficient.

Top 5 Most Popular and 5 Least Popular Microsoft Certifications

*This information can be useful if you’re thinking about getting certified and want to know which certifications are popular and which ones are in demand.

Please note: the numbers below are current as of June 2008.

Top 5 Most Popular Microsoft Certifications:

1. Microsoft Certified Professional (MCP) — with over 2 million people certified worldwide, 2,296,561 to be exact

2. Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer (MCSE) – Windows NT 4.0 — with 395,798 people certified

3. Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer (MCSE) – Windows 2000 — with 290,359 certifications worldwide