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CISCO offers five levels of network certification: Entry, Associate, Professional, Expert and Architect, the highest level of accreditation within the Cisco Career Certification programme. CCENT and the CCT certifications are entry-level certifications and serve as starting points for individuals interested in starting a career as a networking professional. The associate level of Cisco Certifications can begin directly with CCNA for network installation, operations and troubleshooting or CCDA for network design. Associate level is the foundation level of networking certification. The professional level is an advanced level of certification that shows more expertise with networking skills. Each certification (CCDP, CCNP Cloud, CCNP Collaboration, CCNP Data Center, CCNP Routing and Switching, CCNP Security, CCNP Service Provider and CCNP Wireless) covers a different technology to meet the needs of varying job roles. The Cisco Certified Internetwork Expert CCIE certification is accepted worldwide as the most prestigious networking certification in the industry. Cisco Certified Architect is the highest level of accreditation achievable and recognises the architectural expertise of network designers who can support the increasingly complex networks of global organizations and effectively translate business strategies into evolutionary technical strategies.

3 year degree programme that helps one build the fundamentals of the computer application with detailed knowledge of computer language programming and application. It comprises of the subjects like database, networking, data structure, core programming languages like C and Java. This course provides a lot of opportunities to the students who are interested in computer field and wants to work in the IT sector as programmer or software developer. In the terms of the growth prospects of a candidate after BCA the best step is to look out for various job opportunities, but considering that the degree is through distance mode the platform available would be limited to the small scale industries.

MBA is job oriented and opens opening in multiple management functions in different industries including IT & ITES industries. The M.Sc. In Computer Science is designed to teach a range of advanced topics and a carefully-selected core of foundat subjects to graduates of computer Science and other numerate disciplines. M.Sc. Computer Science prepares students for a technical career. Doing M.Sc. Computer Science after MBA is change of career and may not bring much career growth opportunities. Therefore, it is recommended that after MBA if you work in IT or ITES companies in Pre-Sales support, Account Management and Business Analysis role it will be a better career option then shifting to technical jobs after M.Sc. Computer Science.

(a) Number of Indian private sector jobs are many fold higher in comparison of government jobs. Most of the government IT jobs are support roles with limited career progression opportunities. Government jobs are available in few IT organisations such as NIC, CDAC, NSG, Ministries, PSUs, etc. It is extremely difficult to get government job. (b) Salary and perks are higher in private sector jobs in comparison to government sector job. (c) Private sector IT professionals progress is based on meritocracy whereas government sector its based on experience and number of years of service. (d) A government job is a lifetime job but private sector jobs are not for life and there are risks of pink slips. (e) Private sector IT jobs provides opportunities for international travel and exposure to end client. (f) In Private sector an IT professional can work on the latest technologies and has continuous opportunity to learn. (g) Work life balance in government job is better in comparison to private sector job.

As per KPMG report, most of the top 500 business enterprises have reported information security breach in the year 2015. There are two types of cybersecurity experts Computing Resources Cyber Security experts and Information Security Analysts. Computer Resources Security experts maintain computer and network security and update security programs as necessary. Information security analysts develop an organisation's computer security standards; install software programs to protect information stored on computers, and monitor computer networks for security breaches. With increased cybercrime, there are a lot of new opportunities getting generated for cybersecurity experts.

Following are the major job opportunities for Network Administrators: (a) Network installation engineers for installing network and computer systems. (b) Maintenance engineers for maintaining, repairing and upgrading network and computer systems. (c) Operations engineers for diagnosing and fixing problems or potential problems with the network and its hardware, software and systems. (d) Remote network operations monitoring job. (e) Performance engineers for monitoring network and systems to improve performance. (f) Networking software deployment engineer. (g) Network Design Engineer. Most of the jobs are in Indian IT companies with remote IT Infrastructure management companies and IT department of Business enterprises.

Another approach is to focus more on learning one programming language well. Once you're proficient at one language, the next one will be easier (just like learning natural languages). Some programming fundamentals stick with you across languages. If you can't decide, go with the programming language approach. If you don't have a favorite language, go with JavaScript or Python. Don't worry too much about different fields or topics. For your first job, it's not very important what your background is. No one who is looking for an entry-level programming job has very much real-world experience. But the more programming time (in any language) you have under your belt the better.

(a) Exposure to Basic of computing. (b) Exposure to Computer Data Structure. (c) Theoretical classes in programming languages such as C, C+, Java, etc. (d) Compulsory computer programming labs. (e) Individual or group software development project. This process is only able to provide the basic foundation and develop basic skills in programming. However, deep programming skills are developed by self-practice and initiative. More programme you write and you will able to gain better programming skills. Practice makes a man perfect. Therefore, more you practice, the better programmer you will become. Practice will give you confidence and help you to build your own confidence in your own programming abilities. Any programmer must create his software and then release it and seek fellow students and teachers feedback to improve. This will help them to develop collaborative development skills. Modify existing programs written by other people is a method to improve programming skills. Reading code of others without having previous knowledge of it is a valuable skill.

MBA in Information Technology aims at developing Management professionals for IT & ITES Businesses and its specialised streams. The programme builds Management skills and reinforces IT skills to create Leaders, Managers & Entrepreneurs in IT products & services domain. MBA IT programme provides students knowledge and skills in all management functions with specialisation in concepts on Software Engineering, Software project Management, RDBMS, Emerging IT technologies with in depth knowledge in any one of the niche areas such as Information Security Management (ISM), IT Infrastructure Management, Software Solutions Management, Systems Engineering, Business Analysis and Data Analyst etc.