Passed 640-822 CCENT
Igloodude
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in CCNA & CCENT
Howdy all,
My company is in transition from being a little company to a medium-sized company (i.e. we're actually doing documentation, formal approval paths for new installs, establishing maintenance windows, etc) and one of the elements is taking our dozen-site global WAN from an ad hoc "oh we've got another site let's connect them somehow" to a fault-tolerant QoS-minded preplanned setup. So as one of the more experienced site admins, I'm going to have a pretty big hand in the planning and my boss scheduled me for ICND-1 (which was 80% review) and ICND-2. I took ICND-1 and passed the CCENT exam last week.
ICND-2 is in mid-October. Given what I'm going to be working on, I'm figuring on getting some CCDA training materials (there don't seem to be any classes hereabouts) and ramping up on planning fundamentals over the next month, then taking the -2 class, hopefully passing the CCNA exam a couple weeks after, and then circling back around and going for the CCDA exam after that. At that point, I should be into the WAN redesign and able to tell whether getting deeper in Cisco and studying for CCNP will help me more, or whether I should dust off some Microsoft.
If any of you have any suggestions/recommendations about this I'd love to hear them.
My company is in transition from being a little company to a medium-sized company (i.e. we're actually doing documentation, formal approval paths for new installs, establishing maintenance windows, etc) and one of the elements is taking our dozen-site global WAN from an ad hoc "oh we've got another site let's connect them somehow" to a fault-tolerant QoS-minded preplanned setup. So as one of the more experienced site admins, I'm going to have a pretty big hand in the planning and my boss scheduled me for ICND-1 (which was 80% review) and ICND-2. I took ICND-1 and passed the CCENT exam last week.
ICND-2 is in mid-October. Given what I'm going to be working on, I'm figuring on getting some CCDA training materials (there don't seem to be any classes hereabouts) and ramping up on planning fundamentals over the next month, then taking the -2 class, hopefully passing the CCNA exam a couple weeks after, and then circling back around and going for the CCDA exam after that. At that point, I should be into the WAN redesign and able to tell whether getting deeper in Cisco and studying for CCNP will help me more, or whether I should dust off some Microsoft.If any of you have any suggestions/recommendations about this I'd love to hear them.
Next up: MS Server 2008 Network Infrastructure (70-642), CCNA (640-816)
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gojericho0
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Congrats on the pass. I'd look at the Microsoft stuff when you need it, but since you are going to be an integral part in the WAN project keep going for the CCNP. I'm sure you will be applying what you study -
dynamik
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That transition seems like it will be a phenomenal experience for you. Keep us updated on how that all goes.
Congratulations on the pass, and welcome to the forums! -
Igloodude
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Thanks.
The ICND-1 class gave out Boson NetSim7.0 CCNA lab software to everyone for home use, and I've got the following hardware lying around the office with varying IOS versions on them to use for a lab:
1702
1702
7204 VXR
3640
Catalyst 1900
So I'm pretty psyched...Next up: MS Server 2008 Network Infrastructure (70-642), CCNA (640-816) -
nel
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Congrats man,
Sounds like a great project too! make the most of it!Xbox Live: Bring It On
Bsc (hons) Network Computing - 1st Class
WIP: Msc advanced networking -
ITdude
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Congrats!
I usually hang out on 224.0.0.10 (FF02::A) and 224.0.0.5 (FF02::5) when I'm in a non-proprietary mood.
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chnguyen
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Igloodude wrote:Howdy all,
My company is in transition from being a little company to a medium-sized company (i.e. we're actually doing documentation, formal approval paths for new installs, establishing maintenance windows, etc) and one of the elements is taking our dozen-site global WAN from an ad hoc "oh we've got another site let's connect them somehow" to a fault-tolerant QoS-minded preplanned setup. So as one of the more experienced site admins, I'm going to have a pretty big hand in the planning and my boss scheduled me for ICND-1 (which was 80% review) and ICND-2. I took ICND-1 and passed the CCENT exam last week. ICND-2 is in mid-October. Given what I'm going to be working on, I'm figuring on getting some CCDA training materials (there don't seem to be any classes hereabouts) and ramping up on planning fundamentals over the next month, then taking the -2 class, hopefully passing the CCNA exam a couple weeks after, and then circling back around and going for the CCDA exam after that. At that point, I should be into the WAN redesign and able to tell whether getting deeper in Cisco and studying for CCNP will help me more, or whether I should dust off some Microsoft.
If any of you have any suggestions/recommendations about this I'd love to hear them.
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