Hi everyone!
Just like any new journey, this thread begins from the decision. I decided to achieve an expert level knowledge and skills in Cisco Collaboration technologies. And of course, I would like to try to go through a challenge of getting my own CCIE number.
The timeline depends mostly on my workload (and budget). I am not going to spend all my free time for studies at the moment. But at the finish line I will definitely have to. I suppose to do a Written exam in next 360 days. After that I hope that I will be able to attempt the lab in 1,5-2 years, probably not once.
It will be a long road, but I am not underestimating the effort that is required to successfully complete this goal.
Some words about my technology background and experience. I finished my university education as a Telecom Engineer two years ago, so I am not new to voice technologies and networks. I had a luck to get my first job as a Service-Desk specialist for a local division of an international company in mid-2011. Then I was promoted to an Infrastructure engineer (all-in-one sysadmin:)) position in early 2012 in the same company. At this position I had a luck to touch a dozen of various spheres and to start my specialization in Cisco VoIP and R&S. I attended a Cisco Network Academy CCNA course, and passed my first Cisco exam in September 2012. Then I continued the self-studying, and in ~2 years got my CCNP R&S status. At this point, I was dealing a lot with VoIP at work. At the beginning of 2015 I moved to another company to a dedicated network engineer position (80% Voice and 20% R&S).
In this thread I would like to share my progress and study notes. I hope that it might be useful to someone.
Will be glad to receive any feedback and advice as well.
In addition, structured study approach is much more efficient.
I will review and post my reading list as well as some thoughts about a home lab soon.
p.s. I am not native speaker, so sorry for my English in advance. I will keep improving my language skills as well.
