Time frame to finish NP:S

Cat5

I'll be starting the CCNA:Security right after Christmas, followed by the NP:Security track into 2015. For those of you who've been through it all, is expecting to be done with it all by the end of 2015 a realistic expectation? I don't have as much time as you single guys and gals, since I'm married with three small children, but I want to do my best. That would give me three months per test, excluding the NA:Security.

With the hack of Sony, I would think that companies will be looking for security people now more than ever, right?

E Double U

I was able to complete CCNA/P Security within a year. I have a wife and two small children so I did the bulk of my studying at work since I had a DR ASA/IPS to practice on there. I studied at night after the kids were in bed.

I used the CBT Nuggets and Cisco's official cert guide. The daily hands on is what made everything stick.

Cat5

E Double U wrote: »

I was able to complete CCNA/P Security within a year. I have a wife and two small children so I did the bulk of my studying at work since I had a DR ASA/IPS to practice on there. I studied at night after the kids were in bed.

I used the CBT Nuggets and Cisco's official cert guide. The daily hands on is what made everything stick.

You had quite the advantage with the equipment at work. I have none of that. I'd either have to buy it or figure it out on GNS3.

alan2308

I'd be interested in seeing how far that year would get stretched out by working on the current exams who's cert guides keep getting pushed further and further into the future.