CCNA - a new adventure
brad-
Member Posts: 1,218
in CCNA & CCENT
I'm done with MS exams and CompTIA exams, hopefully forever, but at least for the forseeable future.
I am now in a spot at work where they need me to pick up CCNA experience - where I have none, and I'd like to go ahead and get certified as well.
I have net+, and i already do most of the work on our internal LAN, but I dont have the knowledge or experience to work on managed switches or routers to do any WAN support. This became a problem when we picked up a VOIP phone system last year, which made all our dumb switches become managed, and split into 2 vlans.
So, given that my cisco experience is zero, what are the best resources to start out with?
Is it still set up so that you work for CCENT first? I know absolutely nothing about working towards this cert. All advice is greatly appreciated.
What kind of lab equipment should I set up? (minimal cost plz. I have available to me 4x Cisco 2600 routers, 2x Cisco 2950 switches, and 1x3500XL). Would that gear be enough? What would be a good lab setup to start CCNA studies?
Thx
I am now in a spot at work where they need me to pick up CCNA experience - where I have none, and I'd like to go ahead and get certified as well.
I have net+, and i already do most of the work on our internal LAN, but I dont have the knowledge or experience to work on managed switches or routers to do any WAN support. This became a problem when we picked up a VOIP phone system last year, which made all our dumb switches become managed, and split into 2 vlans.
So, given that my cisco experience is zero, what are the best resources to start out with?
Is it still set up so that you work for CCENT first? I know absolutely nothing about working towards this cert. All advice is greatly appreciated.
What kind of lab equipment should I set up? (minimal cost plz. I have available to me 4x Cisco 2600 routers, 2x Cisco 2950 switches, and 1x3500XL). Would that gear be enough? What would be a good lab setup to start CCNA studies?
Thx
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QHalo
Member Posts: 1,488
Plenty of gear. I just used Chris Bryant's CCNA topology to study from.
http://www.rasyid.net/wp-content/uploads/2007/05/fast-track-topology.jpg
minus the ISDN of course. -
alan2308
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You have your choice, you can go the one test route or the two test route to get the CCNA.
Assuming you have some serial interfaces in those routers, you have plenty of gear. Grab yourself a copy of either Wendell Odom or Todd Lammle's book, and grab one or more of the free lab books in the CCNA FAQ thread for practice.
