'Tis the season (again) to reflect on everything that's gone on around here in 2023. We began our year-end retrospective on Monday by looking at the 10 Most Popular Articles of the year.
Next up is GoCertify's weekly Certification Watch, a summary of notable IT news. We've had almost 50 Certification Watch headline samplers so far this year, but which ones were deemed most engaging by our readers? We're glad you asked. (Or we asked. Or, well, someone did. We're just glad.)
Without further ado, here are the 10 Most Popular Certification Watch news roundups of 2023:
1) Certification Watch, Vol. 26, No. 16 (April 19, 2023) — Random Quotation: Most types of data attract hackers, as they say, like bears to honey. The attraction is particularly strong, according to cybersecurity professional association (ISC)², when it comes to the massive stockpiles of healthcare information that accrue as people circulate from doctor to doctor to receive treatment for the many ills of life.
2) Certification Watch, Vol. 26, No. 20 (May 17, 2023) — Random Quotation: Computer hardware and software titan IBM defines a "mainframe" computer thusly: "At their core, mainframes are high-performance computers with large amounts of memory and processors that process billions of simple calculations and transactions in real time."
3) Certification Watch, Vol. 26, No. 11 (March 15, 2023) — Random Quotation: We can probably all agree that cybersecurity systems and defenses are far easier to sidestep in movies and on television than in real life. It's hard to imagine some of the stuff that movies and TV shows scarcely blink at happening in real life.
4) Certification Watch, Vol. 26, No. 22 (May 31, 2023) — Random Quotation: The amount of data that businesses, organizations, and governments store and analyze has exploded in recent decades. It's not enough to just gather the data, however — it has to be stored, classified, and organized, and that requires knowledge of database technology.
5) Certification Watch, Vol. 26, No. 23 (June 7, 2023) — Random Quotation: Most IT certifications are sort of like comic book superheroes, at least in the sense of being rebooted/refreshed every few years. After a comic book superhero has been doing her or his thing for a while, and the writers want to crank up interest among fans and possibly bring in new readers, they will shake things up.
6) Certification Watch, Vol. 26, No. 17 (April 26, 2023) — Random Quotation: There's no wrong way to eat a Reese's, and there are nearly as many ways to prepare for a certification exam as there are individual certification exam candidates.
7) Certification Watch, Vol. 26, No. 10 (March 8, 2023) — Random Quotation: Hopper pioneered the FLOW-MATIC programming language that eventually served as foundation for COBOL. The Navy actually wouldn't admit Hopper when she attempted to enlist after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor during World War II.
8) Certification Watch, Vol. 26, No. 14 (April 5, 2023) — Random Quotation: Want to pass a certification exam? You, or someone you know — your employer, for example — will have to foot a not inconsiderable bill. Especially if you don't pass the exam on your first attempt, certification can get expensive in a hurry.
9) Certification Watch, Vol. 26, No. 21 (May 24, 2023) — Random Quotation: It feels like AI is everywhere in 2023, and not just because powerful AIs from the future are about to perfect time travel, return to the current era, and claim their rightful place as the overlords of humanity. You know, maybe. Probably? Hey, it could happen.
10) Certification Watch, Vol. 26, No. 24 (June 14, 2023) — Random Quotation: How does one person get 18 IT certifications (including every CompTIA certification there is) in a single year? Like the valiant tailor of song and story (including an animated version featuring Mickey Mouse) who killed "seven with one blow," this level of accomplishment catches ears and turns heads.
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