Need Advise, CCNA R&S or Voice

Hi all,

As the title says I'm in a bit of a dilemma..

First of all a bit about myself, I live in the UK, I'm a telecomms engineer by trade and was trained by the British Army in the Royal Signals. When I left the army I changed career paths and have been out of the telecoms trade for 6 years now but desperately want to return to it.

I have a lot of experience from the army with a variety of equipment. However I'm aware that I've been out the trade for a while and decided to pursue a few cisco certs. I recently gained CCENT cert and that brings me to my dilemma... I have a strong interest in VOIP, and with the CCNA exams being changed it is possible now for me to take my pick of CCNA exams. Now then I don't have a lot of money to fund me so I'm self studying and seem to be getting along ok. I want to do CCNA Voice so I'm currently studying R&S topics from CCNA so that I can move on to the voice side of things with a good base knowledge and hopefully take and pass the exam giving me the CCNA Voice cert.

do you think that having the CCNA voice cert and not the R&S will affect my chances of getting employed? Is it necessary for me to take the exam in R&S before voice as I don't want to spend more money on an exam I probably won't use considering I'm looking for a role in VoIP. (Yes I know VoIP is ran on R&S networks but work with me!) I really don't know what is best to do....

any advise would be greatly appreciated.

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Comments

Master Of Puppets

I think you should definitely get both of them. People will expect voice professionals to have a solid understanding of R&S and it will improve your market value, no doubt.

DCD

Which version of the CCNET did you pass? It does make a difference.

blueberries

How can you get the ccna-v without the ccna?

Am I missing something or did Cisco do a 180 on me again?

Master Of Puppets

blueberries wrote: »

How can you get the ccna-v without the ccna?

Am I missing something or did Cisco do a 180 on me again?

According to the new rules, you no longer need a CCNA R&S to go into one of the specializations. CCENT is now enough.

blueberries

Cisco needs to send out an SMS every time they change "the rules."

aaron0011

I would get the CCNA before doing CCNA-V. If you have to learn the basics why not do a little extra and get a widely recognized cert. Listing CCNA and CCNA-V on the resume will provide much better results then CCNET and CCNA-V.