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Deathmage wrote: » My friend told me to not stop and go for the CCNP.
techfiend wrote: » I'd wait until after CCNA to decide whether you want to pursue CCNP, it could change your mind on cisco. I see you work with vmware daily, do you work with cisco? If not I'd think vcap would be easier for you to obtain and more beneficial career wise in the short term at least. You also have to find exactly where you want to be long term. For instance, I'm a ccna with ms and vmware experience and having trouble moving into networking. MCP and VCP would benefit me much more than CCNA currently. Unless you're in the field you want to be in early in your career and can specialize I think it's beneficial to get entry certs in multiple fields to increase your chances on moving up. I do notice a lot of positions looking for MCSA+VCP so that's my next path after WGU.
techfiend wrote: » Thing is if you don't have networking experience is a CCNP going to help any more than a CCNA? All positions I've seen looking for CCNP require years of experience and some special skills.
Stevecb06 wrote: » I will be sitting for the CCENT the day before you. Hopefully we can both walk away with shiny new certs!
Mow wrote: » That's my wedding day! Good luck!
techfiend wrote: » Congrats! ICND2 has a lot of overlap with ICND1 however it's a lot more theory and I found it to be a much more difficult test. One thing you might want to do while taking the test is write down questions you aren't sure of on the white board. After the test but before leaving the testing room, study those and try to memorize them and get them written down in a permanent place ASAP. It's helped me every time I've done it, ever since my first wgu failed test a few months back. In my case there was a lot of questions repeated on the ICND2 retake and I probably wouldn't have passed on the retake without doing the aforementioned. The boson practice tests aren't very relevant to the real test unfortunately, maybe measureup or something else is more effective. Cisco is in the process of updating CCNA and the current test is expected to be retired the first half of 2016. Is Storage+ really in demand? I don't recall ever seeing it in a job listing.
techfiend wrote: » If you have the Storage+ voucher then you have nothing to lose, it might be an interesting cert, kind of hit or miss with comptia. I don't know if you saw any of my posts earlier but I don't think the Lammle book and Boson is enough to pass ICND2. It's what I originally used and failed and I'm generally really good with tests. The OCG is definitely the best resource for the test and is a lot more interesting than it's ICND1 counterpart. Have you registered your email address with cisco?If the address is incorrect or if you would like to use a different mailing address, login to the Certification Tracking System using the following instructions:• Go to the Certification Tracking System at www.cisco.com/go/certifications/login (If you are a first time user to the Certification Tracking System, click on the link under "Register for the first time" from the home page.)• Once logged in, click the "Update Personal Info" link.• If your mailing address is listed incorrectly please correct it. Under this section you may also update your email address, and phone number.• Once you have updated your personal information click on the "Submit" button.
techfiend wrote: » Official Cisco Guide, in this case Odom.
OfWolfAndMan wrote: » Port fast does not disable STP, but is used to bypass the listening and learning states of the STP learning process, so when say a user connects up, they should have immediate connectivity to the network. You should not use this on links going to other switches. Why do you think that is? BPDUguard prevents someone from hooking up a switch on the network and changing the location of the root bridge altogether. Or, if you don't want someone connecting a switch on a network period, you use BPDUguard. FYI this will also errdisable ports that have a computer simulating BPDUs as well. As you know with STP, the whole point of the tree is you only have one link to any endpoint in a non-routed environment at any given time, assuming you're using STP. Port channels change the logical perspective to the STP calculations in that it appears as one link now rather than two (Even though physically it is two). FYI both links must be of identical speed/duplex when configuring this, otherwise it won't work. If one of the links go down, the port channel will retain its remaining links without changing the STP topology.
Deathmage wrote: » I mean if you turn on portfast on a uplink or trunk and you have a switching loop that switch with the portfast turned on on the uplinks/trunks would be pancaked in a heartbeat, it would be a perdy Christmas tree though...
Deathmage wrote: » As for STP and having only one link back to the root bridge from each switch I guess this is why you guys were all screaming about redundant links from each switch back to the core and then the core to the core router. It can be a very slow route back to the root bridge if you just have one link between switches. Let me explain my thoughts in the paragraph below, correct my logic if I'm wrong.
Deathmage wrote: » As far as Etherchannel, so essentially assuming I understand this correctly once the group is made STP only sees them logically as one link and not more than one. If it saw it as more than one non-logical connection it would block one of the extra links.
OfWolfAndMan wrote: » Indeed. OK, so this doesn't really have to do with redundant links. Remember that whenever a change is made in the STP topology, a TCN is generated (By any switch in the topology), but it is always sent to the root bridge. If you have a root bridge that comes off of the core, then that means whenever a TCN is generated, from a generic network hierarchy perspective, it will have to hop the link to the core and then the link down to the root bridge AND THEN make those two hops to each and every downstream switch (Unless it's daisy chained off of the root bridge). It would be somewhat suboptimal, eh? EDIT: This is my logic based on a collapsed core. If it were a 3 layer hierarchy, then there's even more time in the TCN propagation. You're right on the money.
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