Difficulty of these highlighted areas
I was strongly considering applying for an open position at my company but I'm CCNP certified with just a few years experience. There are quite a few areas I am not strong in and wondered what the level of difficulty is so as to guage how fast I could get up to speed (if hired for it). For those of you already practicing the tasks listed below what level of difficulty do you think it is for a person with a CCNP cert, and a few years experience in IT.
Listed Requirements for the Job:
- Formulation of Network and Telecom design recommendations.
- Significant senior level design experience for a telecommunications infrastructure, Cisco products and related security configurations.
- Complete mastery with design and best practices with Access lists .
- Complete mastery with telecommunication carrier technologies such as MPLS, DS-1, DS-3, OC-3. OC-12, and Gigabit Ethernet.
- Mastery of the Spanning Tree process.
- Mastery of differences in Firewall Architecture.
- Mastery of functionality and operation of a Security Policy.
- Mastery of common Internet related attacks.
- Mastery of Network Address Translation.
- Complete familiarity with IPSEC tunnels.
- Complete familiarity with content based security rules.
- General familiarity with IDS setup, design, and configuration.
- Experience with multiple firewall implementations and log consolidation.
- (e.g. Cisco Nexus platform, Cisco 7000-2000, Catalyst 6000/5000/4000, CSS 11000, VPN Concentrators, AS5400, AP1xxx, etc.).
- Must have demonstrated experience with very complex network topologies. Capacity planning / dimensioning, appropriate technology selection / provisioning. Must have experience with at least Frame Relay, ATM, SONET, MPLS, private IP, and VPN networks. Knowledge and hands on experience with most common layer 1 technologies (e.g. OC-X, DS3/T1 and fractional, ISDN/PRI/BRI).
- Knowledge of and hands-on experience with Network Analyzers.
