What study should we pursue to become a PC builder? : CCM

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SebB73 Posted messages 19 Status Membre 33

The training suitable for computer maintenance (computer technician) is the Bac Pro SN.

The Bac Pro SN RISC consists of 14 hours per week of computer science with 22 weeks of internship in an IT company over the 3 years of the program. So, you come out with a "real background" in IT, much less generalist than a general or technological bac.

For information on the Bac Pro SN, just type "Bac PRO SN RISC" into Google xD

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Judge_DT Posted messages 644 Registration date Status Modérateur Last intervention 10 013

Good evening,

I confirm, it’s not “installers” but rather the qualification of “IT maintenance technician.”

See this: https://www.onisep.fr/Ressources/Univers-Metier/Metiers/technicien-technicienne-de-maintenance-en-informatique

PS: Being resourceful and autonomous is part of the "qualities" regularly required for access to this type of position/function... A quality that seems to be missing from you, otherwise you could have very easily found the information in just a few clicks on Google ;-)

PS 2: I don’t see the connection with a technical support forum, even more so with “Computer hardware”... We are talking about jobs and studies... so you’ll have to explain the relation to help with hardware... ;-)

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Robs06 Posted messages 1566 Registration date Status Membre Last intervention 276

Hello,

We are in the "High Tech Studies / Training" section, not on the support platform ;)

But otherwise, I completely agree with Judge_DT.

Judge_DT Posted messages 644 Registration date Status Modérateur Last intervention 10 013 > Robs06 Posted messages 1566 Registration date Status Membre Last intervention

We're in the "High Tech Studies / Training" section, not on the support platform ;)

Probably... because I moved the message to put it back... in the appropriate section? :-)

Robs06 Posted messages 1566 Registration date Status Membre Last intervention 276

Ah... indeed, it's a detail I had overlooked during my reflection ^.^' I'm leaving ====> [-]

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Pierre1310 Posted messages 8854 Status Membre 652

Hi,

You need to know how to read and write "build PC" on Google. Big training, about a bac + 1 hour.
I don't think they are builders and if they are, they should be paid minimum wage.

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jordanatator

Hello,
I am currently interested in an AFPA training course (with certification at the end) to become a "Help Desk Technician," and then move on to another one called "Computer Installer and Repair Technician"; so here it is, if you are looking for a not too long internship to assemble PCs,
there are AFPA centers a bit all over France that offer these internships.

Links to these training courses:
https://www.afpa.fr/formation-qualifiante/technicien-d-assistance-en-informatique
https://www.afpa.fr/formation-qualifiante/installateur-depanneur-en-informatique

Hoping to have helped you a little.

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ryko1820 Posted messages 1633 Registration date Status Membre Last intervention 310

Hello,

Otherwise, there are also assemblers/integrators who, in addition to maintaining (and thus repairing = keeping in working order), assemble PCs and configure them according to clients' needs. They install operating systems, software...

It's a bit like bespoke vs. ready-to-wear, with the maintainer being more specifically the "repairer" working in after-sales service (SAV). That said, the initial training is also maintenance technician even if the integrator/assembler aspect often implies (at least in the context of independent activity) a commercial notion that the "pure repairer" does not necessarily involve. The maintenance technician, semantically speaking, would be a bit like the mechanic vs. the integrator who would be the car dealer, selling options, the color (even though the same person is supposed to be able to perform any of these functions interchangeably in IT).

... But there are fewer and fewer assemblers, a trend that is not likely to improve, as assembled PCs have been supplanted by manufacturer PCs, then by laptops that are hardly customizable except at the factory, and now by mobiles which, increasingly powerful, offer (or will offer in the near future) many users all the features they used on a PC, with the advantage for manufacturers that they quickly become obsolete and that the whole is replaced rather than trying to upgrade components.
So if there are (still) "builders" at "top achat," as time goes on, there will be fewer, except for gamers, for a few clients more demanding in performance or scalability, and businesses (but this market will very likely also decline) which mainly source from manufacturers.
Overall, in the long term, there are and will be fewer and fewer PC users, so there will be less and less need for maintenance technicians (in IT).

Otherwise, there are systems administrators/engineers, a sort of "super" maintenance technicians, because the Cloud, the web, and businesses will still need a more or less centralized architecture (even if virtualized) and therefore servers a bit longer than PCs. But even in this area, the offer is shrinking, and the mainframes (supercomputers) of companies worth hundreds of thousands of dollars are disappearing in favor of server farms, "datacenters." Google, for example, claims to no longer use mainframes in its architecture.

The market has changed so much this decade that even the famous Moore's law will soon not be respected, as chipmakers are trying to refocus their efforts on the more lucrative mobile market, consequently slowing investments in their quest for power through concentration and fineness of lithography, which anyway was running into a new technological hurdle.

In conclusion, given how things are evolving, I don't believe this is a field with a future, unless one has a bachelor's degree of 4/5 and that in the medium term (10, maybe 20 years, more???), a maintenance technician in IT will have benefited from evolving if they don't want to struggle to find work. In France, unless there are opportunities (which will necessarily be the case for very few of them), evolving will often mean changing fields for equally unqualified jobs.
I know some who have become carpenters or landscapers.

Feel free to correct me if I'm saying too much nonsense...

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Judge_DT Posted messages 644 Registration date Status Modérateur Last intervention 10 013

A good deal of incorrect information.

The trend is reversing: more and more local businesses and others are starting to sell "homemade" assembled products, even large retail groups are doing it (for example, Media Markt has launched two brands with custom-assembled products whether in office or gaming).

Laptops with a substantial range are increasingly going in the direction of upgrade possibilities.

Finally, what you call supercomputers.... they are already server farms, which are already hosted in data centers. In short, this field is far from dead, quite the opposite. However, maintenance technicians who were specifically tied to the field of computers are becoming broader in their tasks and skills. They also touch on mobile and other sectors that were still underdeveloped years ago.

Moore's law.... it hasn't been respected or even realistic for years. But it's mainly related to the problem of nonexistent competition. A whole other story. Especially since the fineness of engraving offers better management of heat and the necessary electrical supply. So fundamentally, they also have an increase in power: where it would have taken 3 times more 10 years ago, it takes 3 times less today... the possibility of gaining power will follow when they find the appropriate processes to control heat and electricity. Not everyone wants nitrogen at home to cool their latest Intel processor running at 5GHz... and this therefore goes through optimization steps.

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Raymond PENTIER Posted messages 58546 Registration date Status Contributeur Last intervention 17 474

Yes, it's very easy: you sign an apprenticeship contract with a computer assembly and repair company; there are plenty of them!

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