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skooma512 posted:Those who have passed ICND2, how long did it take you from when you passed ICND1 to when you passed ICND2? Just trying to get a feel for how much time I can expect to need before even considering taking it. 3 weeks. I did not do nearly as well on the second half but I passed
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Marshall Louis posted:Are we talking Red Hat or LPIC/Comptia? I was wondering if the LPIC would be a good starter course for the RHCSA? I know the RHCSA is more comprehensive but looking for a starting point on working up to it.
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May 13, 2016 01:49
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Ozu posted:I think RHCSA and AWS certifications are probably a quicker and more valuable path than MCSA if you want to do server sysadmin work. Would that apply even if we don't have any linux systems? And what is AWS?
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May 13, 2016 15:03
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May 13, 2016 15:29
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Speaking of CCNA. I have to either renew mine or start studying for another cert fairly soon unless I want to let it expire. When I took the test last time I made this study plan for myself to follow and make sure I was on pace for my scheduled exam and felt comfortable with all of the official exam objectives. Hopefully this will help some of you out there that are studying now or planning to start soon. The book chapters are off of Todd Lammle's book and the black bar in the middle is the separation between ICND1 and 2 topics.    
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May 13, 2016 15:33
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Loose Ifer posted:Would that apply even if we don't have any linux systems? And what is AWS? It you want to broaden your search to other companies though, you're going to find a lot of sysadmin type work is OS agnostic. Keep your skills current and flexible.
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May 13, 2016 22:11
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Is the Lammle CCNA routing and switching study guide the updated version of CCNA general study guide? Wiley is saying that's the most up to date version rather than V7, but I thought the routing and switching exam was different than the general CCNA.
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May 13, 2016 22:56
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22 Eargesplitten posted:Is the Lammle CCNA routing and switching study guide the updated version of CCNA general study guide? Wiley is saying that's the most up to date version rather than V7, but I thought the routing and switching exam was different than the general CCNA. There's no "general" CCNA exam, R&S is the most "general" exam probably though. I'm somewhat confused by your question. CCNA is a level of exams, there's CCNA R&S, CCNA DC, and uhh there might be more, then there's CCNP level, CCNP R&S, CCNP Wireless, CCNP Data Center etc This might be slightly outdated, I'm unsure, but gives the general idea. 
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May 13, 2016 23:27
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Lol at them ranking prince2 higher than PMP
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May 13, 2016 23:30
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loving lol at how highly they think of their certs. Yeah, sure, N+ is harder than CCENT and is on the same level as ccna, whatever you say comptia. Also, A+ for everybody! It's universally good regardless of focus!
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Judge Schnoopy posted:loving lol at how highly they think of their certs. Yeah, sure, N+ is harder than CCENT and is on the same level as ccna, whatever you say comptia. Yeah obviously take stuff with a grain of salt, I mean this is FROM comptia so of course they will skew, but it does give a decent overview of may vendor certs and the progression of those certs within that vendor
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May 14, 2016 00:26
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22 Eargesplitten posted:Is the Lammle CCNA routing and switching study guide the updated version of CCNA general study guide? Wiley is saying that's the most up to date version rather than V7, but I thought the routing and switching exam was different than the general CCNA. Back when there was only one it was just the CCNA, but after enough additional tracks like Voice, Security, Wireless, DC etc. were added it started to be confusing and the original, which mostly focuses on basic routing and switching technologies, was renamed to explicitly add R&S in one of the recent revisions. It also matches how the CCIE tests are labeled now.
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May 14, 2016 01:00
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Okay, thanks. Now I know which one to get and hopefully not let gather dust.
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May 14, 2016 01:22
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Signed up to take the F5 301a (LTM) exam this Wednesday for shits and giggles. Hoping to get purely on a combination of deployment experience and the LTM course.
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I am going to be gunning for a sys admin job in a few months. I have a few years towards a comp sci degree and run linux for all my PC and hobbyist stuff, have a pretty good grounding. Thinking about the RHSCA as my get-in-the-door resume cert. Does anyone recommend any online courses to prepare? I was looking at this but I'm sure there is something better out there.
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Looks like the 7th edition of the Michael Jang Redhat RHCSA/RHCE book is finally out - I've ordered it and should be getting it tomorrow. Hopefully it will be as good as the earlier versions !
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What's the best practice for obtaining a CCNA certificate? Been looking at courses and they can run upwards of $5000 for ICND1/ICND2. Can I do self study and just pay an exam voucher or is it recommended to take an actual course?
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weinus posted:What's the best practice for obtaining a CCNA certificate? Been looking at courses and they can run upwards of $5000 for ICND1/ICND2. Can I do self study and just pay an exam voucher or is it recommended to take an actual course? I'm self studying, and almost everybody in my office with one self studied as well. That being said, I'm open to new suggestions on how to do that because holy poo poo Wendell Odom is so loving boring. The information in his books are good but it can get painful to read. A few of my coworkers managed to pass the test using nothing but his books, CBT Nuggets, and a simulator though.
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May 16, 2016 17:08
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Renegret posted:I'm self studying, and almost everybody in my office with one self studied as well. I posted the checklist I used above on this page. If you hate Odom go give Lammle a try, way more readable in my opinion. If you read his book and take all of the written and multiple choice exams at the end of his chapter, plus lab and review with CBT videos you ought to be able to pass no problem. It's a lot to cover since the cert is so foundational but all the topics build off one another, break it down into chunks and it becomes way more manageable.
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May 16, 2016 17:12
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If you really want a class, a lot of community colleges do them and I imagine it's a drat sight cheaper than $5000.
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May 16, 2016 18:05
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CCNP lab practice suggestions? Something that I could throw on my laptop would be top notch, been looking at Boson NetSim for CCNP but wasn't sure if anyone else had a suggestion.
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crunk dork posted:CCNP lab practice suggestions? Something that I could throw on my laptop would be top notch, been looking at Boson NetSim for CCNP but wasn't sure if anyone else had a suggestion. Cisco VIRL is a solid choice. I run it on my macbook pro without issue.
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I looked into that too, it says something about requiring access to Internet to run though. Not able to connect to the network with personal devices at my current job, where I'd be doing most of my studying.
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Loose Ifer posted:I want to be a server administrator eventually. I've been a helpdesk jockey for about 6 years and finally have some urge to advance. So i'm trying to find the best path to get there from where i'm at now. You're in the same thought pattern and goal mindset that I was after 7 years helldesking/CJing. I started with the 2k3 MCSA, upgraded it to 2k8, then upgraded that to 2012. The 2k3 exams are no longer offered, but if you go through 2k8 you probably have more opportunities to understand what you're studying in your day-to-day work, which will not only make you better at your job but help to ingrain the work itself. Tab8715 posted:Microsoft's exams are poorly done, continually ask ridiculous "gotcha" questions even the most senior admins balk at for sheer obscurity. It's still possible to pass though even with the official MS Pressbooks or whatever Vendor publication with various labs or real-world experience. Truth beyond truth. The MS exams are tests of rote context-menu memorization and trivia. Lab it up, go through all the steps. The best thing I could suggest is to flash back to exams in HS and college (if applicable) and adapt the study methods that helped you do the best at retaining info. I also can't recommend Sybex's books enough - they are very good at what they had. I used the sole book for the upgrade exam at the time - I think it was by ExamCram - and it didn't serve me as well as it could. The 70-646 exam review came from a Sybex book, and it was quite good at what it did. Read the books, write down notes as you go. Go back through the chapter in your lab environment, going through the steps and futzing with them as you go. Repeat as each chapter goes. Then go back over the book and highlight any relevant info, compare it with your notes and fill in the gaps. Run through the exercises. Break poo poo in test, fix poo poo in production, and schedule your exams for when you can make use of all three hours if you have to. A lot of people post about woes for 70-640. I can't speak directly to it, but being the guy who just used AD to reset passwords and move around objects within OUs, it was really fascinating to understand how much more stuff AD contained, and how much more it could do. Think of this as the college courses for Windows sysadmins, and it really becomes a highly informative experience. Understand the basics of what Powershell does for the 2k8 exams. Know Powershell at a functional level for the 2k12 upgrade. If I can help, PM me - I don't lurk this thread as often as I should.
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If there was one bright side to the MCSA, it was that there are no sims to crash.
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crunk dork posted:I looked into that too, it says something about requiring access to Internet to run though. Not able to connect to the network with personal devices at my current job, where I'd be doing most of my studying. Yeah, VIRL is fairly full-featured but has to call home to a licensing server once a week or it stops functioning. I know that some people I worked with used to have a lot of success using GNS3, but if I recall correctly it can't do most of the Layer 2 features or any kind of image other than IOS unlike VIRL. I think it also requires you to have your own IOS images to load. Those are the only two options that I know about unfortunately.
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I'm phone posting so don't have a link. But someone posted in this thread a few weeks back that you can get Cisco Packet Tracer free now, which is a great option.
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GNS3 isn't fully functional at L2 because switching is mainly confined to ASICs and so it has to happen in actual hardware or something, from what I've read. I have the free Packet Tracer from Cisco and it's really nice, but everywhere I look says it won't be enough for CCNP RS. Hopefully I'm wrong though?
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Packet Tracer omits a number of configuration commands that aren't in any of the CCNA topics.
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weinus posted:What's the best practice for obtaining a CCNA certificate? Been looking at courses and they can run upwards of $5000 for ICND1/ICND2. Can I do self study and just pay an exam voucher or is it recommended to take an actual course? I could see paying that much for a CCIE, but holy poo poo, $5000 for a CCNA?
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psydude posted:I could see paying that much for a CCIE, but holy poo poo, $5000 for a CCNA? I've seen these, they're 2 week boot camps meant for corporations that don't know better / don't care about 5k per employee if it means better cisco partner levels. They're not meant for individuals trying to pay their own way. If classroom learning is your thing, try udemy. You get more of a classroom experience with instructor led courses and it's a suuuuper cheap value. $20 for 40 hours of content should get you through the ccna.
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Heh, the CCNA R&S is getting revised rather quickly. Then again, SDN and The  wait for no one I suppose.
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https://learningnetwork.cisco.com/community/certifications/ccna According to that: Last exam is 20th August 2016 for the ICND1 and full CCNA. 24th September for ICND2
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Sprechensiesexy posted:https://learningnetwork.cisco.com/community/certifications/ccna Give me a loving break
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Didn't they just revamp it in 2014? Or was it 2013?
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rafikki posted:Didn't they just revamp it in 2014? Or was it 2013? They changed it September, 2013. It was unchanged since 2007 at that point. I'm trying to go through the topics to figure out what changed by my coworkers are being loud and I can't focus. e: https://learningcontent.cisco.com/cln_storage/text/cln/marketing/ccna-rs-exam-revision-v6.pdf It's too fuckin early for me to think straight Renegret fucked around with this message at 13:25 on May 17, 2016 |
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poo poo, I was planning to knock out the ICND2 next, but I won't be ready by September. I hope updated textbooks will be out soon.
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God drat it! No wonder Laemmle said he was making a new edition What happens if I get test 1 done in the summer? Do I just take the updated test 2 when I'm ready or should I even bother? skooma512 fucked around with this message at 15:26 on May 17, 2016 |
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I got my first cert! After we moved to Google Apps here at work, I decided to get the Google Apps Admin cert. The test is a pretty cool no-bullshit approach. Here is a domain, here is how we'd like it configured. You have two hours. I may have overprepared a bit, or it was just really simple, because I finished it in 30 minutes. I think I'm going to start/continue working on the CCNA now. There's been lots of networking talk at work, and I've got a decent foundation of understanding on it already. I've also really been enjoying the networking side of things, even more than the server side. Making machines talk to each other is neat, and gently caress studying for Microsoft tests.
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