Future Prospects in BCA And MCA courses:One right decision > countless happiness.

"Computers as we all know has become the connecting system across the world and if all the computers of the world stop working for just one day, that would be the end of all. "

Since 1837 when Charles Babbage invented the first computer called as "The Analytical Engine", augmentation of computer technology has ramified on such a fast pace that world has taken a new turn of growth and development. People are ardently digging the field of computer education to positively change the contemporaneous world to achieve successful future.

Hardware describes the body of computer whereas software decides its functioning. Nowadays many computer courses are hovering in the air of education to impart outstanding knowledge about computer technology. The Bachelor of Computer Applications and the Master of Computer Applications are famous amongst such available courses. The primary emphasis in BCA and MCA curriculum is on the development of diverse types of application software rather than designing computer hardware and systems software. Therefore, students who are interested to acquire their further education after school in the software department of computer technology generally opt for BCA three years degree course. Any student can apply for this course but the only condition is that that student should be able to fulfill the eligibility criteria of that college where he wants to study. Career for these students will give them a successful future as the information technology revolution has paved the way to the most exciting vista of careers the world has ever seen. The computer application sector offers a wide range of specialist jobs that are challenging as the machines become more and more sophisticated, demanding new skills or different combinations of existing ones. When compared to pure computer science, the number of professionals graduating with specialization in computer application has been on the rise.

The BCA course introduces every student to the practical aspects of software development keeping in mind the needs and requirement of the clients, thereby these graduates have ample scope in the customer support department in making the software more viable and easier for the clients to use. The course is an excellent platform for those aiming to enter in the computer profession and they are absorbed by the corporate companies in the following designations:

            Job Prospects for BCA Graduate

Software Engineer: A BCA graduate can work as a software engineer where his main responsibilities will be to Full life cycle application development, Software modelling and simulation, Support, maintain and document software functionality, Project Planning and Project Management, etc…                                                                                          

Software Consultant: A software consultant is responsible for Business Development, Pre-Sales, Business Analysis, Requirement Analysis, etc.                                                           

Network Engineer: He is responsible for installing all new hardware, systems, and software for networks, Support administration of servers and server clusters, Plan and supports network and computing infrastructure, etc.                                                                                         

Database Administrator: He is required to monitor systems and platforms for availability, Restore and recover corrupted database, Evaluate and recommend new database technologies.                                                                                        
Test Engineer: He is required to generate Test case and Execution Of Test case, Reviewing the Bugs fixes for the test done as per test plan, etc.                                        

System Analyst: A system analyst is required for systems analysis, design, and programming.                                                                          

Programmer: His responsibility is to make programs of applications.                                                                          

Quality Assurance Engineer: The quality assurance (QA) engineer makes sure that all of the programs work properly and that everything in a Web site functions according to plan.                                                                           

Technical Support Engineer: He requires providing technical solutions based on user description of the problem, if necessary talking user through a series of steps to resolve the issue or troubleshoot the problem.

If the BCA graduate is interested in teaching industry, he/she can look for faculty position in computer application and computer science. BCA graduates can get an attractive salary since the jobs are related to ITES/IT based industries. Moreover, the salaries of BCA graduates are subject to the conditions and needs of the IT market. The work ethics and culture are very similar. The salary is based on the skills of the candidates. While some companies select fresh BCA graduates and train them to meet their requirements, some other select only experienced BCA candidates with programming abilities and knowledge. A fresh BCA graduate can get a minimum starting pay of Rs.10000 and a maximum pay of Rs.18000. The salary depends on the company in which they have got the opportunity to work. Once they gain experience, they will be able to earn more. In addition to this, the BCA graduates will be able to earn more if they complete their master’s degree. They can also do some additional course on computers along with their degree course, which will increase their employment opportunities and the pay scale as well. So, BCA graduates need not worry about their pay.

The scope after BCA is less than that after bachelor degree but one can have much brighter future if they go for master degree. MCA degree is considered very high in terms of the qualification. It is very easy for an MCA graduate to take over an engineering guy with IT. The average salary of an MCA graduate is Rs. 35,000 to Rs. 45,000 provided the student has completed it from recognized university and with good marks. The salary can further be increased by having some work experience in some good company with good profile.

Students can also go for MBA after completing their BCA degree but there is a small suggestion regarding this career option. In today’s corporate or even IT sector world, people do not ask the candidates about what they have studied, but what they do know about the other streams. Therefore, it is better to develop the knowledge in their own stream rather than going for MBA after BCA. Both the MCA and BCA enable the candidates to generate more and more knowledge regarding computer application and languages and if the student further do MBA, it will be an added advantage for him to get good job prospects.  So, it is better to do MCA after BCA and then the candidate can do MBA once he completes the MCA course. A BCA graduate can also do MS and they can take up MS in Information technology and they can even do MS in networking as well.

BCA graduates can start up their career in either Government sector or private sector since there are a lot of employment opportunities in both these sectors. As far as government sector is concerned the BCA graduates can enter Sarba Siksha Ahijan, which is a flagship program of Government of India as a teacher on contract basis. They can also try for computer faculty job in Kendriya Vidhyala schools. Apart from these, many government information technology companies and government companies like BHEL, NSDL, MTNL and BSNL are hiring BCA graduates. For applying to the jobs in these government organizations, the BCA graduates can visit the website of these companies. The BCA graduates can have a variety of jobs in private sector also. Several reputed companies like Microsoft, Hindalco, Larson and Turbo, TCS, Wipro, Infosys, etc… are recruiting BCA graduates. Apart from these companies, there are several other companies, which also appoint BCA graduates.

Every company looks to run their communication systems and information technology in an improvised and highly effective manner. In this endeavor they are in the need of experts, who will be in a position to implement computer science principles for solving the problems caused by the interface of technology and business. This requirement of the companies will be perfectly satisfied by the BCA graduates and because of this they are usually in the lookout for BCA graduates.

There are enormous job opportunities in Information Technology after BCA but pursuing master degree after BCA can shower diamonds in your lap. The scope also depends on the student’s caliber to perform. The better the student performs the better will be the chances of his bright future. One right decision can give you countless happiness. Good Luck!

BCA - what you need to know

The simplest form of a computer, believe me, is a switch, a piece of conducting wire, and an electric bulb, connected to a power source. Because the switch controls the illumination of the bulb; as the keyboard controls the operation of the computer. A computer is generally defined as a device that aids in computing mathematically calculable problems (to compute is to solve).

Computers can be made of anything that has a capability to switch to different states. Well, for example, the earliest computer was a mechanical device called the ‘Abacus’ (in China), which was made of a wooden frame with rods passing through beads. The beads were slid back and forth to represent units of hundreds, thousands, etc., for large calculations, and those of 1/10 and 1/100 for fractional calculations. It is safe to classify the Abacus and the following inventions - up to 1945 - as ‘mechanical’ computers. These machines were only limited by their speed of switching between different states. Mechanical parts take a lot of time to move! After this era came a very short phase of electro-mechanical computers, with magnetic forces employed for the task of switching.

The electro-mechanical computers gave scientists their trump card. In successive decades starting from 1945, the electrons conquered the computer world. First the vacuum tubes, then the invention of the transistor by William Shockley and his team at Bell Labs (a transistor is a switch that can switch 4,000,000,000 times per second, and counting... Why? Because it is made up off semi-conducting material, fused together, which switches as fast as an electron travels a nanometer), then the integrated circuit, then the large scale integration,... - the commas won’t end if this article is to stand the test of time.

So what does the study of computers really entail? It should, by common sense, start at the study of the physics of electrons, followed by analog electronic components, then digital, and so on. Along with these subjects, there comes the study of the mathematical principles behind them. And then you can go ahead with computer organization, microprocessors and algorithms; and then software engineering and application development. What I want to put forward is that a computer can be studied at so many different levels that this very field was broken down/branched off into many separate fields. Examples include Computer Engineering, Information Science, Computer Application (which brings us to our topic of Bachelor’s), to name a few.

A quick comparison between computer engineering and BCA is now due, I assume. Starting at the most prominent difference, BCA covers most of, not all the study pertaining to software, and almost nothing about hardware in three years. Engineering, however, covers almost all of software and almost all of hardware, with duration of four years. Unless an employer doesn’t wish to produce innovative and break-through software, a Bachelor of Computer Application is ‘not-ready-but-trainable’ to him.

Regarding the difference in course duration and the corresponding amount of syllabus, given that today more students are graduating from the IT discipline than the requirement of fresh recruits to the IT industry, choosing engineering over BCA would be beneficial. Coping with the high level of mathematics taught in the course of engineering remains one of the issues facing some students. It would not be entirely appropriate to say that BCA would not fetch you any significant proficiency. Some top institutes in India providing the BCA degree also manage to bag on campus placements.

The coursework for a standard BCA degree includes:

Fundamentals of a computer,

A small introduction to mathematics for computer science,

C/C++ and JAVA programming languages,

Data structures and a very small number of useful, commonplace algorithms,

Internet programming,

Software engineering,

System analytics and design,

Computer organization,

Computer networks,

Windows programming,

Multimedia,

Numerical techniques for computer science,

Intranet administration,

and a few projects.

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Cisco Career Certification programs for IT services.......

The widely respected IT certification programs available through Cisco Certifications bring valuable, measurable rewards to network professionals, their managers, and the organizations that employ them.Cisco offer five levels of general IT certification: Entry, Associate, Professional, Expert and Architect, the highest level of accreditation within the Cisco Career Certification program.Various tracks—such as Routing and Switching, Network Security, and Service Provider—are available, so that you can match your certification path to your job role or industry.

 

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Career Certifications
Certification Paths	Entry-Level	Associate	Professional	Expert
Borderless Networks Solutions
Routing & Switching	CCENT	CCNA	CCNP	CCIE Routing & Switching
Design	CCENT	CCDA	CCDP	CCDE
Network Security	CCENT	CCNA Security	CCNP Security	CCIE Security
Wireless	CCENT	CCNA Wireless	CCNP Wireless	CCIE Wireless
Collaboration Solutions
Voice	CCENT	CCNA Voice	CCNP Voice	CCIE Voice
Data Center Solutions
Data Center				CCIE Data Center
Storage Networking	CCENT			CCIE Storage Networking
Service Provider Solutions
Service Provider	CCENT	CCNA Service Provider	CCNP Service Provider	CCIE Service Provider
Service Provider Operations	CCENT	CCNA Service Provider Operations	CCNP Service Provider Operations	CCIE Service Provider Operations

Technician Certifications
Cisco Certified Technician	CCT Routing & Switching CCT Data Center CCT TelePresence
Specialist Certifications
Collaboration Certifications	Voicemail and Messaging Specialists Cisco Unified Presence Specialist Cisco Unity Design Specialist Cisco Unity Support Specialist
Data Center Certifications	Data Center Application Services Cisco Data Center Application Services Design Specialist Cisco Data Center Application Services Support Specialist Data Center Networking Infrastructure Cisco Data Center Networking Infrastructure Design Specialist Cisco Data Center Networking Infrastructure Sales Specialist Cisco Data Center Networking Infrastructure Support Specialist Data Center Storage Networking Cisco Data Center Storage Networking Design Specialist Cisco Data Center Storage Networking Sales Specialist Cisco Data Center Storage Networking Support Specialist Data Center Unified Computing Cisco Data Center Unified Computing Design Specialist Cisco Data Center Unified Computing Support Specialist
Security Certifications	Certifications Cisco ASA Specialist Cisco Firewall Security Specialist Cisco IOS Security Specialist Cisco IPS Specialist Cisco Network Admission Control Specialist Cisco VPN Security Specialist
Video Certifications	Cisco Rich Media Communications Specialist Cisco TelePresence Solutions Specialist

Microsoft Certifications by Technology

 The following tables list Microsoft certifications and describe how they enable you to demonstrate and validate your skills and experience.

ITprofessional
MCSE	Microsoft Certified Solutions Expert (MCSE) certifications are designed to recognize IT professionals who can design and build solutions across multiple technologies, both on-premise and in the cloud. Previous versions of this certification were called Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer and demonstrated the ability to design and implement Windows Sever 2003 (and earlier) infrastructures.
MCSA	Microsoft Certified Solutions Associate (MCSA) certifications validate the core technical skills required to build a sustainable career in IT. MCSA opens the door to multiple career paths and is a requirement for MCSE certifications. Previous versions of this certification were called Microsoft Certified Systems Administrator and demonstrated the ability to administrate network and systems environments running Windows Sever 2003 (and earlier).
MCITP	Microsoft Certified IT Professional (MCITP) certifications recognize IT professionals who demonstrate skills in planning, deploying, supporting, maintaining, and optimizing IT infrastructures.
MCTS	Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist (MCTS) certifications help IT professionals target specific technologies and distinguish themselves by demonstrating in-depth knowledge and expertise.
MTA	Microsoft Technology Associate (MTA) certifications help students explore career options in technology, demonstrate their fundamental knowledge of hardware and IT infrastructure, and prepare for advanced studies, MCSA exams, and MCTS exams.
MCDST	The Microsoft Certified Desktop Support Technician (MCDST) certification is no longer available. It recognized IT professionals who demonstrated technical and customer service skills in troubleshooting hardware and software operation issues in Microsoft Windows environments.
MCDBA	The Microsoft Certified Database Administrator (MCDBA) certification recognizes IT professionals who demonstrate their ability to design, implement, and administer Microsoft SQL Server 2000 databases.
Developer
MCSD	Microsoft Certified Solutions Developer (MCSD) certifications recognize developers who demonstrate the ability to design and develop leading-edge business solutions in the cloud. Previous versions of MCSD were called Microsoft Certified Solution Developer and were available for earlier versions of Microsoft development tools, technologies, and platforms.
MCPD	Microsoft Certified Professional Developer (MCPD) certifications identify developers who demonstrate comprehensive skills in designing, developing, and deploying applications for a particular job role.
MTA	Microsoft Technology Associate (MTA) certifications help students explore career options in technology, demonstrate their fundamental knowledge of software technology, and prepare for advanced studies, MCSA exams, and MCTS exams.
MCAD	The Microsoft Certified Application Developer (MCAD) certification is no longer available. It recognized IT professionals who demonstrated the ability to use Microsoft technologies to develop and maintain department-level applications, components, web or desktop clients, or back-end data services.

 

Advanced certifications
Microsoft Certified Solutions Master Microsoft Certified Master	The Microsoft Certified Solutions Master (MCSM) and Microsoft Certified Master (MCM) programs recognize the most experienced IT professionals who demonstrate and validate their deep technical skills to successfully design and implement technical solutions in a complex business environment.
Microsoft Certified Architect	The Microsoft Certified Architect program recognizes and provides advanced certification to practicing architects in an enterprise setting.
Home and office user
MOS	Microsoft Office Specialist (MOS) certifications are globally recognized for demonstrating advanced business skills in using Microsoft Office 2010, the 2007 Microsoft Office system, and Windows Vista; or highly developed skills in using other Microsoft desktop software.

 

Trainer
MCT	The Microsoft Certified Trainer (MCT) certification identifies technical and instructional experts in Microsoft technologies. They are the only individuals authorized to deliver official training for Microsoft Certification.
MCLC	The Microsoft Certified Learning Consultant (MCLC) credential is no longer available. It recognized Microsoft Certified Trainers (MCTs) with expertise in designing and delivering customized learning solutions.