2 Top Paying IT Certifications

 By Chris M Ryan 

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It is an accepted fact that technology has changed the ways in which businesses function and run currently. Technology is present in all minor areas today and is affecting people's life in a positive way and making their life's more easier. In organizations today, all aspects of new age business management reporting analysis, dispatch management, employee management, and customer relation amongst others are IT based.
There are many IT certifications that are invaluable in employers because of the value add these kind of certifications can provide to employers. However, the IT certifications in demand are only going to be a handful and from that we will be discussing 2 top IT certifications. Depending on your interest level you can opt of IT project management, IT Security and Cisco certifications. These certifications are growing in value day after day and year after year.
Top 2 Paying IT Certifications
Project Management Professional
If you're interested in project management, this is one of the best certifications you opt for. This certification teaches you life cycle of project management framework which covers the following areas and encompasses This encompasses to 42 processes

1. Initiating
2. Planning
3. Executing
4. Monitoring and Controlling
5. Closing

Mapped to these five process groups are nine project management Knowledge Areas:

1. Project Integration Management
2. Project Scope Management
3. Project Time Management
4. Project Cost Management
5. Project Quality Management
6. Project Human Resource Management
7. Project Communications Management
8. Project Risk Management
9. Project Procurement Management

In terms of salary, the PMP certification is the best in the IT industry in which average salary ranges between from $90,428 - $117,252 in United States and European Countries.
Cisco Certified Network Associate
Cisco Certified Network Associate (CCNA) program is hugely popular and is in fact Cisco's most well known certification. CCNA is the entry-level certification for the Cisco Career Certification Program. In the past few years, the salary for CCNA has increased and a person with this certification is able to demand a lot more in terms of salary. The CCNA exam topics cover the following areas:

1. Describe how a network works
2. Configure, verify and troubleshoot a switch with VLANs and interswitch communications
3. Implement an IP addressing scheme and IP Services to meet network requirements in a medium-size Enterprise branch office network
4. Configure, verify, and troubleshoot basic router operation and routing on Cisco devices
5. Explain and select the appropriate administrative tasks required for a WLAN
6. Identify security threats to a network and describe general methods to mitigate those threats
7. Implement, verify, and troubleshoot NAT and ACLs in a medium-size Enterprise branch office network
8. Implement and verify WAN links

A CCNA certified average salary ranges from $72,343 - $98,137 which would depend on the no. of years experience you have in the field of networking.
These two IT certifications are the best in the field of Project Management and Networking.

Chris Ryan is a certification enthusiast and if you can read about more on CCNA Salary and PMP Salary

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