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Haydez posted:And also make sure to whitelist @stanly.edu or frequently check your spam folder. Yeah, I'm the same way. The Sybex book is full of stuff that was never even touched in the course. It's criminal that people would pay out of pocket for the level of education they get at any price of more than what a Stanly student paid. I'm crushing down on the book to crunch and homelab as much as I can before the new year, when people say that the 5.5 content comes in - I hope I'm misinformed on that, but still, bleh on the course now and forever.
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Ugggh. Coming down to the last 45 days before my CCNA expires. CCNP ROUTE just went from "study at your own pace" to "do this poo poo in a month"  Though to be fair I am probably more than ready. I've been studying it off and on for three years, I just haven't had the drive to get up and do it because of other things.
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I think need to make a shittier lab for myself so I spend less time tinkering with poo poo and more time focusing the objectives of the certification I am going for. That way I am not going building these complex environments that have little to do with the cert I am going for. Oh Jeez Lemme see if I can just do this, if I can do that maybe I can do this as well, and now it is past 10.
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Trying not to spend $1400 on a 2nd lab box which would have 64gb of RAM. Between that and the existing, oh the things I could lab... I'll ask a question which might be unanswerable but the worst that happens is that I'm told it's against the NDA and it's all good. For the VCP, do I need to worry about a lot of version specific configuration information? The test is on 5.1, but the latest documentation is on 5.5 - it's not a matter of me needing the 5.1, I simply want to spend this final month studying 5.5 if it's not going to hurt me, because that info is going to be relevant longer. At the same time, I don't want to know that the maximum size of a VMDK is 62TB and forget what it used to be, if the test expects me to know that it's 2TB.
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Martytoof posted:Ugggh. Coming down to the last 45 days before my CCNA expires. CCNP ROUTE just went from "study at your own pace" to "do this poo poo in a month" CCDA is one you can probably knock out in a week of studying, and it will refresh your CCNA, if you don't feel like doing ROUTE under a time crunch.
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MJP posted:Yeah, I'm the same way. The Sybex book is full of stuff that was never even touched in the course. It's criminal that people would pay out of pocket for the level of education they get at any price of more than what a Stanly student paid. I'm crushing down on the book to crunch and homelab as much as I can before the new year, when people say that the 5.5 content comes in - I hope I'm misinformed on that, but still, bleh on the course now and forever. I think the instructor is very much hands-off other than the videos, but at least he responds (not replies) when you email him. I'm pretty sure I'm finished with everything, but he never answered my question about if it would be possible to reset the lab after I completed the whole thing, and what terrifies me is that he went ahead and reset it but never said anything, just like he opened the last couple modules after I asked him and never emailed me.
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Okay, so this is my first time posting in this sub forum, and I apologize for asking a dumb question regarding CCENT/CCNA. From age 6 I've loved computers and was a computer geek all the way up to adulthood. Lots of stuff happened and I ended up as a paramedic. I'm starting to get sick of healthcare, and now that I'm older and more mature I can devote time to study networking and have the motivation to do so. For a good month now I've been studying for the CCENT/CCNA with a handful of resources such as CBT Nuggets videos, "CCNA in 60 Days", and a friend who's in networking to rack his brain. I've been studying hard for the past month or so and I've learned so much. I gathered taking the two test route is better than the combined option. So, already getting bored with the book reviews, breezing through subnetting, and just swiftly maneuvering around in labs in Cisco Packet Tracer, I decided to schedule the ICND1 test 2 weeks from now and bought practice tests off of MeasureUp. From doing the practice tests and finding "dumps", they're covering a lot of topics I thought was reserved for CCNA like access lists, IPv6, STP, routing protocols like OSPF, EIGRP, and more complicated Vlan set ups. I never learned any of that from the study content I was learning from and needless to say I'm getting anxious that I won't be ready for this test. The practice tests do give detailed rationale for answers which helps learn about the topics I didn't learn but I fear that's almost as bad as just dumb memorization brain dumps. Will I be okay for ICND1? Did I learn from terrible sources? Any suggestions?  LATE EDIT NO ONE WILL SEE BUT WHATEVER: I passed my ICND1 the other day! Thanks for the help! 
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Dec 4, 2013 00:05
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Maybe double check that the materials you've been studying are up to date for the new CCENT/CCNA exams that recently came out? They have exam numbers like 100-101 and 200-101.
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Edward_Lapine posted:Okay, so this is my first time posting in this sub forum, and I apologize for asking a dumb question regarding CCENT/CCNA. All of OSPF except the "troubleshooting" portion (so, basically all of OSPF) is on the new ICND1. ACLs are definitely on ICND1. The only large topic domains that are on ICND2 that ARE NOT on ICND1 are Frame Relay, EIGRP and "advanced" STP. Oh, and IPv6 routing protocols, but they're basically the same as their v4 equivalent at the CCNA level. Look at the new blueprint.
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Edward_Lapine posted:Okay, so this is my first time posting in this sub forum, and I apologize for asking a dumb question regarding CCENT/CCNA. If you're coming from a non-technical (in a professional sense) background, have you been studying for the past month like it's a job or just off and on? These certs aren't meant to be a cakewalk, especially if you don't have an experience. I would highly suggest delaying your test a bit and really go over what you're trying to learn. Consider that certs are just to get you through the door (past HR). Honestly, if you're not intimately comfortable with the subject matter (especially if you have no experience) your technical interview will not be very fun...
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Dec 4, 2013 01:15
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Has anyone gone through IBM PowerSystems on IBM I[as400] training? I'm picking as400 sysadmin duties at my new gig and I've got a test box but holy hell this is nothing like windows or the most under-heard of Linux distribution. The worst part is I'm expected to pick it up without any formal training and after a week googling isn't returning legible answers... I know there are classes available but these are a few grand each and most as400 books seem geared toward rpg programming... Help 
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Wow, thanks for the responses! I suppose I'll delay the exam some then and focus on the things I mentioned I had no clue about. Perhaps I am learning from older material. I'll look into the book the OP mentions. I have been studying hard for this, usually devoting 4+ hours everyday like the "CCNA in 60 Days" instructs you too, and with being a paramedic I do get a decent amount of downtime to read from the book, watch videos, and do the labs on my netbook. Aside from working in a Staples as a teenager, fixing friends/family's computers, and getting the A+ cert way back in 2004, I never had a legit IT job.
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Dec 4, 2013 02:41
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Edward_Lapine posted:Wow, thanks for the responses! It really sounds like you had the old version of the test for the study materials. You want the one that is 100-101 or something, not 640-xxx
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Dec 4, 2013 02:52
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Edward_Lapine posted:Wow, thanks for the responses! Keep at it, depending on where you land it's either a great field or a great way to learn how to drink scotch! (sometimes both)
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Dec 4, 2013 17:45
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I just wrote and passed the 074-409 after watching the jump start stream the other week. I'd say that it covered less than half of what I was asked. Lots of very technical and in depth questions.
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Welp. Booked CCNP ROUTE for Jan 8. Don't really have a choice. Have to pass it first go or I'll have to re-take my CCNA. Not terribly worried, just annoyed at myself that I put it off this long. I guess I'm getting the most out of my 3 year CCNA period though 
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Stupid question: I teach networking 1 and 2 for my high school. We use Cisco Discovery 1 and 2 respectively for the courses. Can I pass the CEENT and how far am I from the CCNA? Strengths I know Discovery 1 inside and out (Home networking) I know Discovery 2 about 90% (Small-Medium businesses) I know Subnetting, IOS Routers commands, BGP, basic concepts I can take an address and implement a network with subnets including wireless I have 2900's routers with a few modules and switches (don't know the number) Weakness Weak on switches Weak on everything else in the world No industry experience temple fucked around with this message at 04:16 on Dec 5, 2013 |
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Dec 5, 2013 03:50
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Do you know everything on the blueprint? If so, take the test. If not, study what you don't know.
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Martytoof posted:Welp. Booked CCNP ROUTE for Jan 8. Don't really have a choice. Have to pass it first go or I'll have to re-take my CCNA. Not terribly worried, just annoyed at myself that I put it off this long. I guess I'm getting the most out of my 3 year CCNA period though And if you do pass ROUTE then you can wait out another 3 years to do SWITCH  CCIE v5 was officially announced by Cisco a few days ago with the written and lab exam being available from 4 June 2014. CCIE v4 will be retired the day before so if anybody is currently studying for CCIE - particularly the written exam - then they may want to wait to write the new version. My CCNP was due to expire this Saturday and I found out on Tuesday that the 1 year re-certification grace period only applies to CCIE so I had to write TSHOOT in quite a frenzy. I was hoping to re-certify by writing the CCIE written exam but just haven't had the time to study properly nor did finding out that I had been misinformed about the grace period applying to other certifications help much. But seeing the topics for the new CCIE, I'm definitely going to attempt it particularly as they've done away with stuff that I'm not too familiar with (like frame relay) and added stuff that I am familiar with (like IOS compared to IOS XE and VSS).
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Comradephate posted:CCDA is one you can probably knock out in a week of studying, and it will refresh your CCNA, if you don't feel like doing ROUTE under a time crunch. From what I've heard the new CCDA is completely rewritten and not the cakewalk everybody expects it to be. Just FYI in case anybody else is taking it. Much more focused on technical design instead of best *sales* practices.
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chestnut santabag posted:And if you do pass ROUTE then you can wait out another 3 years to do SWITCH My plan was to do CCNP-SP so I probably won't do SWITCH
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Is CCNA: Security even worth taking, or is it nothing but ASAs?
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The NPC posted:I just wrote and passed the 074-409 after watching the jump start stream the other week. I'd say that it covered less than half of what I was asked. Lots of very technical and in depth questions. This is what I was afraid of.
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psydude posted:Is CCNA: Security even worth taking, or is it nothing but ASAs? CCNA:Security is CCP, ACLs, access control, ACS, IOS IPS, IOS firewall(CCP), ASA, site-to-site VPNs (ASA and IOS) and RA VPNs (ASA). It is a IOS-heavy cert, much more so than ASA. In terms of practical knowledge, there really isn't any aside from how VPNs work. It is a product catalog with some tasks included for legitimacy. The cert is a requirement for CCNP:Security, but if you don't work with ASAs already, that's an uphill battle.
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Contingency posted:CCNA:Security is CCP, ACLs, access control, ACS, IOS IPS, IOS firewall(CCP), ASA, site-to-site VPNs (ASA and IOS) and RA VPNs (ASA). It is a IOS-heavy cert, much more so than ASA. In terms of practical knowledge, there really isn't any aside from how VPNs work. It is a product catalog with some tasks included for legitimacy. The cert is a requirement for CCNP:Security, but if you don't work with ASAs already, that's an uphill battle. I wouldn't say that it's a "product catalog" cert the way, say, the VCA is. I definitely learned a lot of little things about ACLs and best security practices, but it is certainly a lot more basic than the CCNA:R&S for example. It took me like a month to study for it, and I don't regret it at all.
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If anyone needs anyone from the Stanely VCP course needs a 'study buddy' let me know, I don't mind helping out on the weekends.
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and speaking of the Stanley course, don't buy the book. What a waste of money that was. Buy one of the VCP books like the VCP Study guide or something.
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Haydez posted:and speaking of the Stanley course, don't buy the book. What a waste of money that was. Buy one of the VCP books like the VCP Study guide or something. I haven't seen the other books out there but I've been going out of the Sybex book. Covers a lot, but it reads like an MS Press book - an extended technical manual with walkthroughs, not really as good of a learning tool as William Panek's books or ExamPrep/ExamCram.
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What is everyone's opinion on Testout, as far as passing the Security + exam? We were required to purchase it through school for a Network Security class, but I'm not sure if I should get more material.
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Gweenz posted:What is everyone's opinion on Testout, as far as passing the Security + exam? We were required to purchase it through school for a Network Security class, but I'm not sure if I should get more material. This used to be the end all be all for the Security+ test. Not sure if it still is. I bought the Kindle edition many moons ago but never took the test as I didn't enjoy IT Security after working in it for a short stint.
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The Army will pay for it I do a bunch of online CBT followed by an actual week long course. Mine is expiring in 8 months, and I'm trying to decide whether it's worth going through all of that effort to save $300 when I could just read the book for the most recent version and pass it again in a week.
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penga86 posted:This used to be the end all be all for the Security+ test. Not sure if it still is. I bought the Kindle edition many moons ago but never took the test as I didn't enjoy IT Security after working in it for a short stint. It still is, at least as of May this year. It's the only study material I used and I passed it on my first try.
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So, trying to finish up the Stanly course, kinda stuck on the DRS section. I'm at the point where I'm getting DRS to balance the load, and... it's just not working. I've got both VMs at 100% CPU, which is putting the host load standard deviation at .5, and the target is less than .05. But even though DRS knows it's imbalanced, it won't recommend any changes. I can just skip it and go on because I understand what's going on, but what the hell is happening? E: Ugh, both guests had an ISO attached that was on a datastore that was only on host 1, fixed it. FISHMANPET fucked around with this message at 05:23 on Dec 10, 2013 |
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Is there any practice tests or anything for the VCP5? I just finished the Stanly course and it felt like a giant rubber stamp to me, so if the test is at that level then I should sit it right now. On the other hand, I skipped watching the lectures, but I've been running VMware for a couple of years now so nothing in the labs was new to me. Basically, not sure how to approach actually taking the VCP5 test.
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MC Fruit Stripe posted:I'll ask a question which might be unanswerable but the worst that happens is that I'm told it's against the NDA and it's all good. For the VCP, do I need to worry about a lot of version specific configuration information? There were shockingly few config maximum style questions when I took it, for either version. Wanted to mention this deal for aspiring VCPs: https://www.vmwarecertificationmarketplace.com/SearchResults.asp?Cat=140 For $210 you get 30 days access to what I found was a good-but-not-amazing test bank, a test voucher, and a retake if you fail. Only thing is you need to take your first test by Dec 31. But if you're nearly ready, it's not a bad deal.
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FISHMANPET posted:Is there any practice tests or anything for the VCP5? I just finished the Stanly course and it felt like a giant rubber stamp to me, so if the test is at that level then I should sit it right now. http://mylearn.vmware.com/mgrSurvey/assess.cfm?item=24908&refer=0&p=0&ui=www_cert
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Just a heads-up for the Stanly alum - the VMware store has MASSIVE discounts on the exam. I took that deal on the practice exam and it feels braindumpy - I mean, yes, it's an official VMware cert store but it doesn't really cover context like the Sybex book. After seeing the gap between the course and the book, it is a 100% confirmation that the course is but a rubber stamp. I wouldn't jump right into the exam if all you've done is the course, and I was in the lectures as well as all the quizzes and labs.
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MJP posted:Just a heads-up for the Stanly alum - the VMware store has MASSIVE discounts on the exam. I took that deal on the practice exam and it feels braindumpy - I mean, yes, it's an official VMware cert store but it doesn't really cover context like the Sybex book. Yeah the vouchers for EDU students should make the exam something like 62 or 67 dollars. That practice from vmware is really similar to how questions are worded on the exam the pool is only like 80 but yeah don't focus on the Q&A as much as what areas they cover and how questions are constructed. http://www.simonlong.co.uk/blog/vcp5-practice-exams/ and there is this, I've worked on a bunch of the notes with hersey on this http://www.vhersey.com/vcp5-study/
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MJP posted:Just a heads-up for the Stanly alum - the VMware store has MASSIVE discounts on the exam. I took that deal on the practice exam and it feels braindumpy - I mean, yes, it's an official VMware cert store but it doesn't really cover context like the Sybex book. So should we be able to access the Stanly VM store now, or does it become available after the class is over? And how do I find the EDU vouchers for the reduced cost exam?
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