Can CCNA help me?
bwillford
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Well I am just a couple weeks out from taking my CCNA and feel pretty confident with how I have studied but still kind of lost as to how/if the CCNA will help me in my current role. I work as a System Administrator for a company with 5 locations, 2 of them have around 30 users and the other 3 are 1-2 people. Right now the 2 locations with 30 users are on stand alone networks and are not connected at all. The 3 other small offices just RDP into one of our main locations.
I originally started my CCNA studies in hopes to connect all locations together on one network but even after all my CCNA studies I am still lost on how I can complete this. I understand the theory of routing and all the commands to set it up but still no idea how to implement it in a live environment. For example at our two large locations we have bonded t1's that come in on our ISP's Cisco IAD 2400 that we have no access to, should I replace this with our own device to give me more control? Do I put a router on our side of the IAD?
I guess I am just a little disappointed that while I understand everything on the CCNA I still am lost on how to implement those technologies in the real world.
I originally started my CCNA studies in hopes to connect all locations together on one network but even after all my CCNA studies I am still lost on how I can complete this. I understand the theory of routing and all the commands to set it up but still no idea how to implement it in a live environment. For example at our two large locations we have bonded t1's that come in on our ISP's Cisco IAD 2400 that we have no access to, should I replace this with our own device to give me more control? Do I put a router on our side of the IAD?
I guess I am just a little disappointed that while I understand everything on the CCNA I still am lost on how to implement those technologies in the real world.
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networker050184
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That is why real world experience is so valuable!
I'd look into dropping some firewalls (I know, another thing not covered in the CCNA!) behind the ISP routers and doing an IPSEC VPN. Possibly look into an MPLS VPN service, but might not be worth the price for such a small environment.An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes which can be made. -
Node Man
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You may have to educate your managers as to what the CCNA means. They may not be aware of what it means or what you are capable of. In the non-tech world i have found that many managers (and people in general) dont understand the differences in Cisco certs. -
spongeym
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Why not simulate your environment in GNS3 or Packet Tracer and they play with putting routers into different sites to see how you could enhance your companies network. You could create a site to site VPN for the remote offices into the head offices for shared services like servers etc.?
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spongeym
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Looks like it can...
https://learningnetwork.cisco.com/docs/DOC-10756