The best paying jobs in IT are normally fought over ferociously. To win this war, to even have a chance of fighting in this war, you need the right credentials: the sorts of credentials that make you come across as a serious candidate for employment. One certification that can give you a fighting chance in the war for employment in the top echelons of the IT sector is the Apple Certified Technical Coordinator (ACTC) 10.8 certification. This certification helps you in two types of battles: firstly when fighting for employment in organizations where Apple products are deployed and secondly, when fighting for employment in organizations where the deployment of Apple products is being contemplated.

Interestingly, the ACTC certification can also help you in another unexpected battle: the battle for employment in organizations where no Apple products are deployed and where there is not even remote contemplation of deploying such products! This happens when, in a bid to sort through the many resumes they receive, the IT recruiters in such organizations simply look for those with the highest numbers of certifications. In that scenario, if you are at the same level with other applicants in all other ways, but on top of that, you happen to have the Apple Certified Technical Coordinator (ACTC) 10.8 certification, you are at an advantage. It doesn't matter, in this case, that the employer in question may not have deployed, or even considered deploying, Apple products.

The Apple Certified Technical Coordinator (ACTC) 10.8 certification is issued by OS X Mountain Lion Certifications body, to people who are in a position to pass the certification exam administered. To be well placed to pass the said certification exam, you need to have a study plan for the Apple Certified Technical Coordinator (ACTC) 10.8 certification. We will now look at the key elements of the said study plan for ACTC 10.8 certification.

Understand what candidates for ACTC 10.8 are expected to know

OS X Mountain Lion Certifications body, the entity that gives the Apple Certified Technical Coordinator (ACTC) 10.8 certification is very upfront about what it expects candidates for ACTC 10.8 to know. You just need to go to OS X Mountain Lion certifications body website, to see what it expects its ACTC 10.8 certification candidates to know (in terms of the course outline. Then what you do, in terms of planning for the ACTC 10.8 should really be a question of fulfilling those requirements, in terms of what ACTC 10.8 certification candidates are expected to know. So you'd end up with a program where, for every hour you spend studying for the ACTC 10.8 certification, you try to figure out which of the course requirements you are trying to fulfill. This approach will, in all probability, give you better results than studying blindly without knowing the objective towards which your study efforts are being directed.

Acquire every bit of knowledge ACTC 10.8 candidates are expected to possess

Having figured out what candidates for the Apple Certified Technical Coordinator (ACTC) 10.8 are expected to know, the next phase in your ACTC 10.8 study plan should be that of actually acquiring that knowledge. You may have to study some textbooks, which are recommended by OS X Mountain Lion Certifications body, to acquire the required knowledge. You may also have to attend classes in an authorized training center, to acquire the required knowledge. Further still, you may have to use online materials, to acquire more of the knowledge that must be in your possession for you to pass the Apple Certified Technical Coordinator (ACTC) 10.8 certification exam.

Do practice exams to see whether you have what it takes to pass the ACTC 10.8 exam

You may think that you have gotten possession of all knowledge required to pass the Apple Certified Technical Coordinator (ACTC) 10.8 certification exam, only for there to turn out to be major and simply unacceptable gaps in that knowledge. It may also turn out that while you have indeed gotten possession of most of the required knowledge bits, your knowledge is not deep enough, or nuanced enough, to enable you to pass the Apple Certified Technical Coordinator (10.8) certification exam. To know whether you have the required knowledge to pass ACTC 10.8 certification exam, and whether that knowledge is deep and nuanced enough, you need to take ACTC 10.8 practice exams.