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Ccnp switch passed!
Chris.Mackenzie01
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passed 853
needed 790
quite a few sims and simlets but I was very comfortable on all of them. I sat the official course through my employer and they barely touched on a few of the subjects I had sims on.
On to route!
needed 790
quite a few sims and simlets but I was very comfortable on all of them. I sat the official course through my employer and they barely touched on a few of the subjects I had sims on.
On to route!
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TWX Member Posts: 275 ■■■□□□□□□□What subjects do you feel that the official curriculum was lacking in that you were tested upon? I've gone through the official curriculum too, and the instructor's slides with "Copyright 2014" at the bottom corner didn't exactly inspire confidence.
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Infosec_Sam Admin Posts: 527 AdminCongratulations on the pass! I'd also be curious to know where you thought the curriculum was lacking.
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annamae Member Posts: 23 ■■■□□□□□□□Awesome! Did you need another voucher for the TSHOOT or ROUTE? Had three that were bought, two were used. Have one left for the Cisco 300-xxx exam series.
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Chris.Mackenzie01 Member Posts: 36 ■■■□□□□□□□I thought it was lacking on VACLs, and authentication for dot1x, the slides from the course very briefly touch on both.
at the same time, the course does some labs which I think are pointless at CCNP level, such as using CDP to find router names and then changing its host names. Killed an hour on that - something you learn in ccna - an hour that could of been spent on the above bits. -
Chris.Mackenzie01 Member Posts: 36 ■■■□□□□□□□annamae said:Awesome! Did you need another voucher for the TSHOOT or ROUTE? Had three that were bought, two were used. Have one left for the Cisco 300-xxx exam series.
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TWX Member Posts: 275 ■■■□□□□□□□Chris.Mackenzie01 said:I thought it was lacking on VACLs, and authentication for dot1x, the slides from the course very briefly touch on both.
at the same time, the course does some labs which I think are pointless at CCNP level, such as using CDP to find router names and then changing its host names. Killed an hour on that - something you learn in ccna - an hour that could of been spent on the above bits.Yeah. That bothers me a lot. Work's accrued Cisco credits paid for both SWITCH and ROUTE week long classes but it felt like we lost about a day and a half on stuff that was in the CCNA curriculum.I don't remember dot1x being in the classes at all. It's also not listed on the official cisco PDF outlining topics.I've got about three months until my CCNA three years is up. I'm hoping to have SWITCH passed by then, and then move on to ROUTE. -
clarson Member Posts: 903 ■■■■□□□□□□TWX said:I don't remember dot1x being in the classes at all. It's also not listed on the official cisco PDF outlining topics.
But, It does reflect on the vagueness of the topics and how wide and deep do you need to know them. I'm studying for the SWITCH exam also. I started out thinking this exam was just an incremental increase from the CCNA. But, I've found out there is a lot more information on this exam. Knowing the information isn't hard. Remembering all that information well enough for the timed exam your taking next month is very hard (at least for me). You need lab quite a bit to ingrain all that information into your memory.
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TWX Member Posts: 275 ■■■□□□□□□□clarson said:TWX said:I don't remember dot1x being in the classes at all. It's also not listed on the official cisco PDF outlining topics.
But, It does reflect on the vagueness of the topics and how wide and deep do you need to know them.