CCNA use percentage

For those of you who have had you CCNA for 6 months to a year, I would like to know how much of the material do you use on a daily bases. I have never ever seen frame relay in production. I have only done natting twice. I have used ACLs a decent amount as well as ipsec tunnels (CCNA:S). How about the rest of you, how much do you use it and are you working in a "networking" role?

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Zartanasaurus

I wouldn't say I create or work with any single CCNA level topic on a daily or even weekly basis. Taken together, I have to know one topic or another in regards to troubleshooting or implementing new services on an almost daily basis. Can't get more specific than that.

Once the VoIP deployment starts, that may change.

Panzer919

This about sums it up

verifying routes - 1%
subnetting - 1%
Other wtf items - 8%
basic commands - 10%
configuration of switches - 30%
CCNP level stuff - 50%

JohnnyBiggles

Panzer919 wrote: »

This about sums it up
...CCNP level stuff - 50%

Care to elaborate on this a bit for someone working on CCNA?

Panzer919

Sure, I mainly handle configuring and troubleshooting GRE tunnels, BGP, EIGRP, QoS, Port Security, path selection, Nexus 7000 port assignments, various ASA configurations, ACS setup and replication, site design and implementation, some voice work (mainly assisting our voip guy), AP configurations, product research and ordering and probably other items I can't think of at this time.

Bl8ckr0uter

Bump

Mods if you would move this to off topic that would be great since it isn't really a CCNA question more of a post CCNA question.

I can't remember that last time I had to subnet.

Panzer919

Bl8ckr0uter wrote: »

I can't remember that last time I had to subnet.

If it wasn't for the last 2 months worth of redesign I could say the same thing.

ehnde

subnetting - used this once, had to help a customer figure out what addresses they had based on their subnet mask and router IP.

frame relay - we use OSPF over frame relay on an antiquated provisioning system.

EIGRP - never use it

I use alot of show commands, tracking down what a device is for, why a port went down, what it is connected to, etc.

All in all I'd say I use 50% of what the CCNA covers and I do NO configuration at all.

networker050184

Although I'm not working directly with Cisco gear at this time I'd say I still use almost all of the CCNA level stuff on a daily basis. I need to know the basics of IP addressing, basic routing, switching etc for anything I do.

pham0329

Can't really say I've done any subnetting either...unless you consider splitting 10.0.0.0 to 10.1.x.x /24 subnetting

Every once in a while, I'll have to configure static NAT, but it's on the ASA so I don't know if that counts. Created a couple ACLs and upgraded IOS

Like ehnde, most of my daily efforts involve show commands and vlan assignments. I think a lot of CCNAs out there are not full time Cisco people. I manage the Cisco network, but a lot of my time is spent on things like Exchange, Hyper-V, AD, etc..

xenodamus

I could use everything except maybe IPv6 on a daily basis depending on what kind of tickets come through. Honestly, over half the tickets that hit our queue are above CCNA level, and for right now I'm picking out the ones I can handle. All of our Network Engineers are lumped into one group and we grab the tickets we want to work from a common pool.

Almost every network term I've ever heard is in use in our infrastructure somewhere, lol. I can't tell you how many times a day I hit google, lol.