Hello Guys, passed my ICDN 2 yesterday with a 890. If anyone is interested I used Chris Bryant's training videos from Trainsignal and Wendal Odom pdf's. I also used Cisco CCNA portable command guide to learn the commands. I have been studying for about 1 year now. I now that people pass after 3-4 months, but its just not my style. I like to take my time and practice and practice until I know it.
I started to study for my CCNA because we have a Cisco Backbone mainly of 2950 switches at work. The network is completely flat no vlans except default and no routers to help to segement the network. Even though we have a 2801 router sat in the corner not even plugged in because nobody has the confidence to actually use it. I started studying to build me know and then to implement on the network which I plan to do very soon.
I didnt really find the CCNA to taxing, I did however spend along time studying to pass it so I would have been really dissappointed if I hadnt!!
My question is for an CCNP's out there. How much more demanding is the CCNP to the CCNA. I not afraid of hard work, but just think if might me a little bit overkill for the company that I work at. Would i be better for me to study for something like CCNA security or are the topics in the security course covered in the CCNP and therefore would it my better to just concenrate on the CCNP.
I have caught the Cisco bug and just want to ask you guys about what is best for my next step.
I started to study for my CCNA because we have a Cisco Backbone mainly of 2950 switches at work. The network is completely flat no vlans except default and no routers to help to segement the network. Even though we have a 2801 router sat in the corner not even plugged in because nobody has the confidence to actually use it. I started studying to build me know and then to implement on the network which I plan to do very soon.
I didnt really find the CCNA to taxing, I did however spend along time studying to pass it so I would have been really dissappointed if I hadnt!!
My question is for an CCNP's out there. How much more demanding is the CCNP to the CCNA. I not afraid of hard work, but just think if might me a little bit overkill for the company that I work at. Would i be better for me to study for something like CCNA security or are the topics in the security course covered in the CCNP and therefore would it my better to just concenrate on the CCNP.
I have caught the Cisco bug and just want to ask you guys about what is best for my next step.