CCNP has been obtained!
Chitownjedi
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in CCNP
Hi All!
Passed the exam (by 10 points!
) T-Shoot on Saturday. I've had extremely extremely slow activity at the job since X-mas break, so I've spent the better part of everyday connected to my home machine and connected to my lab and going over everything I could.
The last two weeks I went over my Routing notes (Thank goodness I took good notes) and labbed up and felt good about taking a shot at it.
ipv6 ospf 3 You almost owned my soul! But it's fine a couple of focused hours of
will take care of some of the things I grew soft on.
I'd like to say thank you for all those who posted their journey here. It motivated me to get back on board 14 months after I took Route, to get it together and Finish Switch and T-SHOOT in starting back in October of 2015.
Question:
I plan on going into Network Security (Pentesting, Vulnerability Assessments, CyberSecurty, Incident Response type stuff) versus Network Engineering. I plan on eventually taking the OSCP once I finish my BS. IT Security Degree from WGU around May. But I do not plan on entering my Masters for Security until sometime in 2017. Would a CCDA be beneficial? I guess my logic is that it would nail home how networks might be designed, and may empower my skill-set a little bit.
Passed the exam (by 10 points!
) T-Shoot on Saturday. I've had extremely extremely slow activity at the job since X-mas break, so I've spent the better part of everyday connected to my home machine and connected to my lab and going over everything I could.The last two weeks I went over my Routing notes (Thank goodness I took good notes) and labbed up and felt good about taking a shot at it.
ipv6 ospf 3 You almost owned my soul! But it's fine a couple of focused hours of
will take care of some of the things I grew soft on.I'd like to say thank you for all those who posted their journey here. It motivated me to get back on board 14 months after I took Route, to get it together and Finish Switch and T-SHOOT in starting back in October of 2015.
Question:
I plan on going into Network Security (Pentesting, Vulnerability Assessments, CyberSecurty, Incident Response type stuff) versus Network Engineering. I plan on eventually taking the OSCP once I finish my BS. IT Security Degree from WGU around May. But I do not plan on entering my Masters for Security until sometime in 2017. Would a CCDA be beneficial? I guess my logic is that it would nail home how networks might be designed, and may empower my skill-set a little bit.
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networker050184
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Congrats!An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes which can be made. -
Danielh22185
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Very awesome! Congrats man! It's a breath of fresh air to hear someone who was / is in the same boat as me pass from old Route content already under their belt.Currently Studying: IE Stuff...kinda...for now...
My ultimate career goal: To climb to the top of the computer network industry food chain.
"Winning means you're willing to go longer, work harder, and give more than anyone else." - Vince Lombardi -
Chitownjedi
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Danielh22185 wrote: »Very awesome! Congrats man! It's a breath of fresh air to hear someone who was / is in the same boat as me pass from old Route content already under their belt.
Yeah, I kept hearing how Route was the harder of the three.. and switching always came to me easier... let's just say it was totally worth finishing it.. I found Route to have been the more difficult exam in multiple facets.
Good luck on your quest to finish up yours! Glad that I finally got this off my back. I've felt guilty about not finishing up what I started with this for my whole first semester in WGU -
Danielh22185
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Chitownjedi wrote: »Yeah, I kept hearing how Route was the harder of the three.. and switching always came to me easier... let's just say it was totally worth finishing it.. I found Route to have been the more difficult exam in multiple facets.
Good luck on your quest to finish up yours! Glad that I finally got this off my back. I've felt guilty about not finishing up what I started with this for my whole first semester in WGU
At least you still had ample time to complete it while your cert was still active. I can't wait to share the same feeling!Currently Studying: IE Stuff...kinda...for now...
My ultimate career goal: To climb to the top of the computer network industry food chain.
"Winning means you're willing to go longer, work harder, and give more than anyone else." - Vince Lombardi -
viper75
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Well done and congratz!CCNP Security - DONE!
CCNP R&S - In Progress...
CCIE Security - Future... -
kohr-ah
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Way to go!
CCDA is kind of like.. ITIL for Networking.
the CCDP is very beneficial but the CCDA looks good on the resume I been told and only takes a month to learn. -
Chitownjedi
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Way to go!
CCDA is kind of like.. ITIL for Networking.
the CCDP is very beneficial but the CCDA looks good on the resume I been told and only takes a month to learn.
Thanks Kohr-ah, been a long time coming. -
Simrid
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Grats
Network Engineer | London, UK | Currently working on: CCIE Routing & Switching
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NotHackingYou
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Congratulations!When you go the extra mile, there's no traffic.
