Charging for exams upfront and offering an 'Exam Guarantee' is a common method with a number of training colleges. Consider the facts:

Clearly it's not free - you're still being charged for it - it's just been wrapped up in the price of the package. Should you seriously need to pass in one, then you should avoid exam guarantees and pay when entering exams, give it the priority it deserves and be ready for the task.

Go for the best offer you can find when you're ready, and keep hold of your own money. You'll then be able to select where you sit the exam - so you can find somewhere local. A lot of questionable training companies net huge profits because they're getting paid for exam fees early and banking on the fact that many won't be taken. Many training companies will require you to sit pre-tests and not allow you to re-take an exam until you have proved to them you have a good chance of passing - so an 'Exam Guarantee' comes with many clauses in reality.

On average, exams cost approximately 112 pounds in the last 12 months when taken at local VUE or Pro-metric centres throughout the country. So what's the point of paying maybe a thousand pounds extra for 'Exam Guarantees', when any student knows that the most successful method is consistent and systematic learning, coupled with quality exam simulation software.

One of the most recent areas in this particular field is called 'Digital Forensics'. We might associate 'forensics' with television shows like CSI (Crime Scene Investigation). There may though be a touch more routine regarding the actual workload compared to that carried out by the celebrities on-screen! Having said that, technological forensics provides a fascinating occupation for a lot of individuals these days. The process being to collect and evaluate digital footprints, to supply evidence in either a criminal investigation or civil enquiry.

In a similar arena to Digital Forensics and I.T. Security is Ethical-Hacking - another fairly new discipline to regulate criminal offences. Seasoned IT professionals can learn the principles of criminal hacking for ethical security reasons. The EC Council offers mid to high level qualifications, entitled the 'CEH' (Certified Ethical Hacker) & the CHFI ('Computer Hacking Forensic Investigator').

How can job security really exist anywhere now? In the UK for example, where industry can change its mind whenever it suits, it certainly appears not. Wherever we find escalating skills shortages and escalating demand of course, we can find a newly emerging type of market-security; driven by the conditions of constant growth, businesses struggle to find enough staff.

The most recent British e-Skills study brought to light that 26 percent of IT jobs cannot be filled due to a huge deficit of trained staff. Put simply, we can only fill three out of every 4 jobs in Information Technology (IT). Properly taught and commercially accredited new staff are as a result at a total premium, and it looks like they will be for a long time to come. With the market growing at such a rate, there really isn't any other sector worth considering for your new career.

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