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IT Industry Certification

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Microsoft MCITP and MCTS, Cisco, Network+, Security+, Wireless

Make yourself more valuable in today's competitive computer industry by successfully obtaining a number of world-renowned vendor certifications through UBC Continuing Studies.

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Course Overview

Taught in a high tech facility by highly skilled technical instructors, our IT Certification courses provide you with the opportunity to gain vendor certification through part-time study. Take these courses consecutively, or as your schedule permits, and complete as many vendor certifications as you wish. Textbooks are included in course fees. Please see course descriptions for details on included vendor certification exam vouchers.

View a list of current IT Certification Courses.

If you are looking for a more comprehensive training program, see our Network Administration and Security Professional program or our Technology Support Professional program offered in collaboration with BCIT. Not sure which is right for you? Check out our program comparison chart.

Who Should Participate

These career-enhancing courses focus on developing your skills in administering and troubleshooting network environments and database systems. If you have at least one year's experience in operating systems and/or networking, you can advance in areas such as technical support, network administration and integration, and system analysis.

Participant Benefits

In targeted and effective lectures, hands-on labs and reviews, participants improve their career-related knowledge and skills and develop an understanding of how industry-leading software fits into the fast-moving, complex field of network and Internet systems. As they work towards achieving internationally recognized industry certification, participants also benefit from our instructors' real world experience in designing, managing and administering corporate, education and government systems.

Course Format

Completion of each part-time IT Certification course takes from several days to several weeks. Completion time for an entire IT Certification designation ranges depending on the number of required courses. All courses are instructor-led and culminate in hands-on or written examinations. The vendor certification exams, administered by Prometic or VUE, are the responsibility of the participant. Exam vouchers are included in most course fees.

For More Information

For more information please contact:

UBC IT Certification Programs
Continuing Studies
The University of British Columbia
800 Robson Street
Vancouver, BC V6Z 3B7
Tel: 604-822-1420

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