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>> Hi, I'm Natasha and

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welcome back to an
introduction to Splunk.

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Today we're going to
be talking about what

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studying Splunk can
mean for your career.

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In this video, we're going
to start off looking at

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some potential jobs
and salary ranges.

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Give you some points
you could put on

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your resume just from
doing the activities in

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this course alone and
discuss certification path.

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Whenever I'm trying to
decide whether or not

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to pursue a new skill
set or certification,

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one of the things I like to do,

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is search for other
people who've

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already done it and
see where they're at.

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This can be a great
reality check.

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For example, if you see a
bunch of people who have

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that certification and
not a whole lot of

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experience with your
dream job title,

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you can estimate that that's

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a great direction for you to

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go and you can plan accordingly.

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On the other hand,
if you find that

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most people who have
that skill set have

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years of experience or jobs
in totally unrelated fields

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that can help you
understand the steps you

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need to get to where you
want in the real-world.

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Here I've got a search for

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just the first Splunk
certification,

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Splunk certified user.

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What you'll find with

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this certification
is that most people

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have other certifications and

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experience in addition to this.

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For those who have gone on to be

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Splunk architects and admins,

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they've typically
gone further in

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the Splunk certification
path and have

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some experience in
other technical fields.

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You also find a lot
of individuals with

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this certification
and other specialties

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such as cyber security,

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networking, management, etc.

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They didn't get those jobs
from the certification alone,

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but it likely give them a boost
in their existing career.

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Another thing I like to
do is search job boards.

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If you come across
a few popular ones,

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you'll find thousands of

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jobs that come up
with the word Splunk.

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Some of these Splunk
specific jobs such as

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a Splunk analyst or
Splunk developer.

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Others maybe security engineer

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positions, business
analyst position,

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or even project
managers or directors,

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you can see a few different
ones of them here.

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According to indeed.com,

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the average salary
for someone who's

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certified as a
Splunk admin ranges

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from $66,000-$149,000 per year.

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Part of that variation
has to do with

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what job you end up with.

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A systems administrator
title tends to

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pay a bit less than an
enterprise architect,

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but there's a lot
of variation and

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opportunity in many
different areas.

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If you want to work
for Splunk directly,

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it's one of the highest
paying companies in

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the US with an average
employee salary,

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including salespeople,
technical writers,

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and other positions
of $126,000 per year.

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That's about €110,000,
35.5 bitcoins,

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and 14 million or so Nepalese
rupees by today's rates.

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Even if you go a different
direction with your career,

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Splunk makes an
excellent resume item.

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It proves you're capable of

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high level critical thinking

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and have technical experience.

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If you do all the
activities in this course,

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you'll be able to
put some things

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like the following
on your resume.

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You'd say you've
installed and maintained

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a small Splunk
enterprise environment.

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You've created alerts,

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dashboards and reports
from Splunk data,

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and you've on boarded
new data sources

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for a Splunk environment.

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These are great pieces
to put down that show

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that you know how to do hands-on
activities with Splunk.

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Splunk has its own
certification,

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something I highly recommend
doing if you enjoyed

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this course is taking Splunk's
free Fundamentals 1 class.

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It's longer than
this course and gets

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into some of the more
nitty-gritty details,

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and also enables you to
test, to get certified.

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Currently at no cost as a
Splunk course certified user.

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Just a note on that,

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when I tried to sign up
with a Gmail account,

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I was able to
complete the course,

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but not the exam.

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I received an email asking
that I update my account to

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my business email in order to

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take the certification exam.

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You do have to take the course

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in order to take the exam,

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and you'll find that
that's the case as

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you move along the Splunk
certification routes.

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After the free Splunk
Fundamentals 1 course,

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things get a little bit pricey.

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Most of the courses are
several thousands of dollars.

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In my opinion, you'd be best

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off not paying for
those and leveraging

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practical experience in order

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to get a job or your
company will pay for it.

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Often companies can work
in training vouchers

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with their renewal or
purchasing of Splunk products.

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Unfortunately, in
this coursework is

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required for further
certification.

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The course is built on each
other and you have to take

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one of several new courses
for each certification.

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The good thing about all this,

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is that a lot of
companies don't have set

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expectations for
Splunk certifications

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before hiring people.

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Just because it's
not as well known

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as some other popular
certifications.

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For the common path,

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you get certified as

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a Splunk core certified
user for free,

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and then you'd move on to
become a certified power-user.

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It requires that you've already

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completed the coursework
in exam for the first one,

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and then you take
Splunk fundamentals 2,

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you can take this online,

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but there are fees
involved with that.

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After that, a lot of people

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will go on to become a Splunk
enterprise certified admin,

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which again requires

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all the previous courses
and certifications.

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Then in addition to that,

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it requires you take

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Splunk enterprise systems
administration course

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as Splunk Enterprise Data
Administration course

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and the exam for that.

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This is the level you

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probably want to get to
if you're looking to

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specifically work with
Splunk as your main job.

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After that, there's a
few different routes

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that people will go.

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Some people will go on to

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more advanced level and
become a certified architect.

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Some we'll go into more
specialty areas such as

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a certified developer or get

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certified to specifically
for enterprise security or

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Splunk IT service intelligence.

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That's up to what you're

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interested in and where
you think you want

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to go with that in addition

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to what your company might
have in its environment.

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Now we're to review
time, true or false?

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You can get certified
for free as

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a Splunk core certified
user. The answer is true.

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You can sign up on splunk.com,

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they have a training
section on their website.

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I would register there complete

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the course and then put in
a request for the exam.

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This is a great piece to add to

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your resume just
to show that you

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have officially recognized level

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of capabilities with Splunk.

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In summary, today
we learned that

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there are many different
job possibilities.

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Splunk can be added as

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a bonus to your
existing skill set,

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or it can become a
career in itself.

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Certification paths exist,

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but there are costs involved
with each of these.

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You don't necessarily have

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to become certified
in order to get jobs,

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if this is something that
you're really interested in,

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but it is worth looking
at and considering.

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I showed at the
beginning of this video,

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if you've got a job you
that you're shooting for,

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maybe look at what the typical
requirements are for that.

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I think you'll be surprised to

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find that how often it doesn't

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specifically list out
that you're certified.

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Thanks for watching, next up,

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we're onto Module 2.