Computers & IT (Non-Engg)

Hi Parul,
Listed below are some of best books for project management :
1. Project Management Lite: Just Enough to Get the Job Done
2. Strategic Project Management Made Simple – Practical Tools for Leaders and Teams
3. Project Management JumpStart (Third Edition)
4. Project Management Absolute Beginner's Guide (Third Edition)
5. Brilliant Project Management: What the best project managers know, do, and say (Third Edition)
All the best

Hi Sudhanshu,
If we talk about the job opportunities, both software testing and networking have ample jobs, it entirely depends on your interest and in which domain you want to specialize in, if testing different types of softwares and finding out the bugs interest you then opt for software testing and if how various networks are setup and how the communication channel works interest you, then opt for networking.
All the best

Hi Paras,
IMED Pune is one of the best institute to pursue MCA with great faculty, campus and a good placement record since years.
All the best

Hi Paras,
Mentioned below is the examination pattern for BCA through IP university :
* Duration: 2. ½ hours
* Multiple Choice Questions would be asked
* Level of questions asked shall be as per the level of last qualifying examinations for admission to the programme(s) of studies.
Question paper pattern for BCA :-
English Language & Comprehension - 15%
Mathematics - 30%
Computer Awareness - 30%
General Knowledge-IT and Science Related - 25%
All the best

Hi joy,
CCNA is better than CNA because CCNA is a global certification being offered by the Cisco while CNA does not hold global recognition and is provided by jetking. Both the courses addresses almost the same domain areas with little difference in the curriculum
Hope this helps

Hi Divya,
It's entirely possible, most of the individuals I know, specifically those working for my current and past employers do not have CS degrees, I'd say it's more of a 85% / 15% ratio from what I've seen. Of the 85% who do not have CS degrees perhaps half don't have any sort of degree. From my observations individuals with degrees have no performance edge over those who do not, and only a slight hiring edge is there.
Hope this helps

Hi Divya,
CBT nuggets CCNA on the youtube provides one of the best tutorials for CCNA.
All the best

Hi Parul,
No technology will be "thrown away" with the introduction of cloud computing,cloud computing will never be the only way to build infrastructure. The biggest reason is that for the most high performance demanding problems bare metal hardware is always better than virtualized hardware.
I can not imagine this will ever change in our life time. When it does change, cloud computing will also be out of date.
Every technology you listed can be done in the cloud or under your desk on cheap commodity hardware. The cloud does not really change that. The main thing that it empowers is who is doing your DevOps and how.
All the best

Hi Gunjan,
CMU cloud computing is a good course and it is worth mentioning that the course provides a lot of resources. Write ups for weekly projects always contain a lot of instructions and useful hints, our questions on Piazza can always be answered by a teaching assistant within an average of 10 minutes. There are about 20 teaching assistants in this course, we can always visit their office hours whenever we have problems during weekdays.
All the best

For DBA you can choose OCP as Oracle Certification. I will suggest you that Make hands on experience on Linux Operating System as well before opting DBA because Most of the Server running on Linux So if you go for DBA you must have to setup Database on Linux Servers only. For Linux Administration choose RHCSA and RHCE as basic platform before DBA.