Will I be able to cope with CCNA?

[navelim]

Hi there, I've been reading through many posts concerning CCNA, and it seems people have devoted a lot of time and work in obtaining thier CCNA's. I was wondering if someone could tell me if I could cope with this course.

I plan to do CCNA, however Iam not sure if it would be wise to wait till the end of my degree as I dont wat to be blogged up with too much work. Iam in my last semester of Computer Networks degree.

Will it all be too much or will my degree help me towards the certification?

 

[doktor]

I think you will be able to take the CCNA cert.
But as I wrote in my thread "How I passed the CCNA", you need a lot of time to study, hands-on etc.
Several students did not pass the CCNA training couse because they did not have agreements with their families and boses. Others lost interest as they found out that they had to a lot of home work.
So, if you have the discipline and time to do the study, I think that your chances are high to pass the CCNA.
Of course, experience from the field (a job) in all cases would be the best building block to beging the CCNA studies.
///doktor

 

[lerdalt]

as for your degree helping towards the CCNA, it all is going to depend on what courses you are taking. I'd compare your course syllabus with the CCNA test objectives. I'm sure there would be some additional information you can easily pick up from the CCNA study guides and some hands on.

 

[CiscoGuy33]

navelim,

I do not think reading a Cisco Press CCNA book or a Sybex CCNA Study Guide is going to take anything away from your network studies and in fact it might help depending on what classes you are still working on.

I am finishing my degree right now as well as working full-time at the college so I know that you should have some down time where starting your study towards CCNA would not hurt - you are not starting anything formal so if you have a big work load that week - just do not work on the CCNA!

Once you are done with your degree you can put more time towards study and hands on labs!

Hope this helps!


E.A. Broda
CCNA, CCDA, CCAI, Network +

 

[navelim]

Hi,
I appreciate all your help and advice. The reason I considered CCNA was because one of my modules had a lot of theory on cisco networks,protocols etc, the lecturer was CCIE certified, we configured the basic set up for routers, network id's, hsrp, vlan, which was a lot of fun.

The only thing thats stopping me is my work load, its my last semester and theres a lot of work.

The CCNA module starts this month(or the next one in sept) at college, so I wont be able to miss weeks off between, I could wait after my degree, but then I also plan to do a MSc in Computer Networks, which will be another year.

Once again thanks for all your help.