CCNA in 6 lessons over 6 weeks

dazdaryl

I'm going to a place that offers CCNA lessons for $1099, I though that's a pretty good deal, I did try learning the ccna book by myself and I the vast majority of it, I stopped reading at the lab work.

I remember reading that book, the 600+ something pages took me quite a long time, it was over months that I managed to read it, I wonder how it's possible for them to teach me the CCNA over just 6 lessons? should I be worried? They have however had a lot of good testimonials, so I'm giving it a go, the CCNA would be $350 to take the test by itself and they include a free test.

Place I'm going to do ccna: Logitrain

Magmadragoon

I cannot figure how much lab work goes to the CCNA to justify spending over a $1000 for it. You could just use simulators, like GNS3 and Packet Tracer to make it through. You could build a CCNP lab for that amount of money.

rowelld

In my opinion, $1099 is a lot. Do they offer a guarantee where if you don't pass you get your money back? Just sounds like another bootcamp but for 6 weeks.

therebeeye

You didn't specify how long each lesson was (I'm assuming one day a week for 6 weeks), but personally, I'm not a fan of boot camps unless you already have a good grasp of the CCNA topics. And $1000 is pretty expensive. As said above, you can get GNS3 (free download I believe) and practice sims on that, plus there are a ton of videos on Youtube covering the exam topics pretty well. That, plus the book you read will help you out or you can buy books with practice exams. They are usually around $60 new. Definitely cheaper than $1000+. Good luck!

ssnyderu2

With my level of routing and switching knowledge, a 6 week boot camp would be about passing a test, not knowing what I am talking about. Im thinking for me I would need about 6 months at least.

nikalis

anyone can pass when you know the questions on the test. bootcamps should only be used for maybe a final review if that.
On another note, if you buy some cisco gear 2x2950 1x3550 and 3xrouters (about 350 total maybe 400) and do the labs the concepts stick better. and knowing the concept means nothing if you don't know the commands to implement it (you'd be a paper ccna)

binarysoul

For an exam like Cisco, I think it's vital we know how to do things, get our hands dirty than watching someone else explain or do stuff. A bit of guidance is good from a mentor, but on exam day, it's us alone vs. a speedy exam!