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Is it too late for the Stanly VMWare courses? All I could find was wait list for summer. If you have any info please let me know. Thanks.
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Dafte posted:Is it too late for the Stanly VMWare courses? All I could find was wait list for summer. If you have any info please let me know. Thanks. Sign up regardless. When I signed up I was told there was a 9 month wait list, then I got contacted soon after for the next semester because a bunch of people flaked out. ... then I canceled myself because I had changed jobs in the meantime and the new company is a KVM/OpenStack shop. But anyway the point is the sooner you sign up, the sooner you can get in  Make sure to whitelist them on your spam filter or check your spam religiously because every single drat thing they sent went to spam for me.
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Feb 3, 2014 05:21
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psydude posted:Ooof. Well, it'll be good for people trying to get their CCNA or focus on layer 3 applications, but all of the left off is on SWITCH and I'm sure it's even more critical for the CCIE. I agree about the switching. After the CCNA you basically know how to configure the basics (hostname, int vlan 1, ip default-gateway, switchport access/trunk) and not much else. SWITCH goes a good deal further into it from what I've seen. And drat it I need to buckle down on my CCNP studies - I will be a CCIE one day. I feel pretty good about all the stuff in ROUTE, I just need to do some practice tests and actually book the drat thing. But having started a new job, I don't want to start asking for training/exam money quite yet. I should at least wait until I have my own purchasing card I guess. And RE: GNS3, here's the email that Stephen sent out last week: Stephen at GNS3 posted:Things are heating up... GNS3 is one of my favorite pastimes, so it's safe to safe I'm far more excited than I should be for this release. Count Thrashula fucked around with this message at 14:37 on Feb 3, 2014 |
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Feb 3, 2014 14:34
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Oh and as a follow-up, psydude what do you consider a decent CCIE lab? I've got a few routers (A couple 1841s, a 2610, and a... 1710? Something like that?) and a few switches (a 3550, a 3524XL, and a 1950). I'm curious what else I'll need to get down the road. I know I'll need another 3550 at least for the SWITCH exam.
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Feb 3, 2014 14:52
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The guys over in the lab thread can probably make some good recommendations. I'm still waiting to take TSHOOT to finish up my CCNP before I start hardcore on the CCIE, so I can't really comment on what is and isn't necessary. For CCNP, though, you'll probably want the other 3550 like you talked about so you can run Layer 3 etherchannel and some of the other MLS functions. A few of the features covered in SWITCH are only on 4500s and 6500s, but it's minimal and you don't need hands on with it (if you do a lot of layer 2 at work you'll probably be familiar with it already, anyway).
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Feb 3, 2014 15:04
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I am in the midst of studying for my ICND1 and currently going through the CBT Nuggets. I kind of want to setup a hands-on lab (or just might purchase some Cisco Learning Labs time if this doesn't work out.) Through my work I can get a nice, shiny 1941 router, but there are also some 2 spare Catalyst Express 520 switches laying around. Could I use those switches for my ICND1 and ICND2 studies? I don't know much about them other then they were nice to setup with Cisco UC devices. I couldn't find any info on using them for a CCNA lab. I would supplement these devices with 2 routers (2600xm or 2800 series) and another switch if the 520s are fine for the lab. Opinions?
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Blue_Calx posted:I am in the midst of studying for my ICND1 and currently going through the CBT Nuggets. As far as I can tell, the Express 520 switch doesn't have a console port on it, so you can't actually do any IOS commands. Granted, there's not a LOT of switch console configuration stuff in the CCNA exam (compared to routing), but it would still be a hindrance. You can get a couple 2950 switches for around $20 each on Amazon or eBay. For routing, the 2610xm is a good router for the CCNA, as is most of what you can find on eBay or wherever. Jeremy Ciaora actually recommends the 871w router, since it has built-in wireless and you can integrate it more into your home network, if that's what you're looking to do. Personally, I have my test lab segmented off of the main network because my wife gets pissed when I accidentally take the internet down for a couple hours  And hey, half the fun of this black hole we call a hobby is acquiring new gear! Start off with a couple basic switches and routers, and soon you'll add wireless access points, wireless LAN controllers, servers to run ACS/WCS/ISE/UCS/CUCM/CUPS/whatever, ASAs, PIXs (or not), layer 3 switches, more routers, IP phones... etc... But back on track, here's what I'd recommend for the CCNA dude on a budget (this list may not be up to date with the new CCNA exams, but I imagine they'd work fine): 2x Catalyst 2950 Switches (~$20 each) 2x 2610 routers (~$30 each if you get a deal on eBay) 2x WIC-1T cards (~$5 each used on Amazon) 1x RJ45-to-DB9 console cable ($5 new on Amazon) 1x serial-to-USB adapter ($5 new on Amazon) 1x DCE/DTE DB60 crossover cable ($7 new from Monoprice) At least 2 straight-through Ethernet cables (should be free because I mean come on) At least 1 crossover Ethernet cable (steal one from work) ---------Total: around $120, you can probably find good deals around, or mix in some gear you steal/borrow from work. Then you can go [Router] ---serial--- [Router] ---ethernet--- [Switch] ---crossover--- [Switch] That's basically how I had my CCNA lab set up.
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Question about the CCNA lab setup - what would you put into the lab if you already have two 3550's as the basis from which to build out?
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Feb 4, 2014 23:36
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You can do basically everything in the CCNA in Packet Tracer. If you want a fully accurate representation of all the commands in the router - setup GNS3.
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Feb 5, 2014 01:48
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QPZIL posted:As far as I can tell, the Express 520 switch doesn't have a console port on it, so you can't actually do any IOS commands. Granted, there's not a LOT of switch console configuration stuff in the CCNA exam (compared to routing), but it would still be a hindrance. If you want gear for having gears sake this is good advice. However if you really don't want to waste money/storage just use GNS3 and maybe buy a L3 switch like a 3550. 2950s don't do L3 so they really don't apply to any modern network you'll be working with IMO. Edit. That came out a bit harsh. I just wanted to reinforce that alot of us have a pile of outdated gear in the attic because we wanted physical gear. Last time I turned it on my physical lab was 2011 when I was going for my CCNA and wasted more time trying to setup some DCE/DTE cable between two 1601s (or whatever). GNS3 lets you move past the physical issues into some very complex setups. Yes knowing how to plug some cable in to some port is important knowledge but the investment into physical gear is barely worth it unless you literally have never touched a box with a console port before. Fatal fucked around with this message at 02:54 on Feb 5, 2014 |
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Feb 5, 2014 01:52
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I know people want the cred of having their own gear, and there's something to be said for feeling badass because you've got a big stack of network equipment, but as someone who's gone through CCNA and such I always recommend people just stay with packet tracer, or at the very most use GNS3 with some physical L3 switches interconnected. With few exceptions for lucky folk, any equipment you can easily afford secondhand isn't something you'll likely every use in a real production environment because it's disastrously outdated, and IOS experience is just as easy to get firsthand through GNS3 for a fraction of the price (i.e., one device that you can pull IOS off of "legally"). I'm not trying to go against the grain or anything (and indeed it seems like I'm not the only one on this wavelength), but I just thought I'd throw that out there as someone who went through CCNA and spent thousands of dollars on equipment only to realize that my only real world experience gained was figuring out which end of a cable is DCE and which is DTE. And I mean if you can afford the hardware and you want to go for it, all the more power to you. There's no reason you shouldn't study in a manner you feel will benefit you most. My only goal is to just say that don't feel like you need to get real hardware to have credibility. Packet tracer and GNS3 will more than suit your needs through a good portion of the CCNP, at which point you'll have a better idea of what equipment you'll likely need anyway.
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Martytoof posted:only real world experience gained was figuring out which end of a cable is DCE and which is DTE. I swear I hadn't read your post when I made my edit 
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Feb 5, 2014 02:55
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I used Cisco Learning Labs for the previous version of the CCNA and thought it was money well spent.
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Feb 5, 2014 03:00
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Thanks for all the equipment advice guys. I think I will just do the Cisco Learning Labs. It's only $80 for 35 hours and I can probably expense it. The extra 1941 we have at work only takes EHWIC modules and getting serial modules for it would be lovely expensive. Plus I live in Alaska and shipping prices are terrible here unless it's Amazon Prime. Though, Today I did find a 861 and we just got a new, baller 2960-X switch I can play around with. I might setup the 1941 or 861 for my home router, just because.
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QPZIL posted:Oh and as a follow-up, psydude what do you consider a decent CCIE lab? I've got a few routers (A couple 1841s, a 2610, and a... 1710? Something like that?) and a few switches (a 3550, a 3524XL, and a 1950). I'm curious what else I'll need to get down the road. I know I'll need another 3550 at least for the SWITCH exam. 2x3560 2x3550 4x1841 1x3825 1x26XX XM (frame relay switch) Serial modules but all that changes with v5 coming out
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Feb 5, 2014 04:06
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Dafte posted:Is it too late for the Stanly VMWare courses? All I could find was wait list for summer. If you have any info please let me know. Thanks. Definitely get on the waitlist. Once your number comes up, you just give 'em $185, wait for the labs to drop, complete them whenever you want, and while you do the work, study up for the VCP. I'd email Jana Kennedy - Jkennedy7709 at stanly.edu - once you sign up and ask her if she has an idea of when you'll be called. I was on the list for about 3-6ish months, I think, and I'd heard nothing. Someone in this thread posted her name/email and I reached out. About an hour later the response was "Oh, you didn't get an email? Good thing you asked, there's still room." Docjowles posted:Sign up regardless. When I signed up I was told there was a 9 month wait list, then I got contacted soon after for the next semester because a bunch of people flaked out. I didn't whitelist them, but I never even got anything in my spam filter. They were able to send me stuff after I reached out, though, and it was never marked as spam... yay Gmail spam filter? I started the course while I was hunting for better jobs, thinking that a VCP plus my MCSAs would make life easier - only to end up halfway through accepting an offer at a Xenserver/Xendesk shop. I'd say stick around VCP if for no other reason than to get into the course; my day-to-day consoling and rebooting in vSphere Client was the tip of the iceberg to a lot of VM concepts that dovetail well with Xenserver and, to a lesser extent, Hyper-V. MJP fucked around with this message at 22:56 on Feb 5, 2014 |
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Feb 5, 2014 22:53
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MJP posted:I didn't whitelist them, but I never even got anything in my spam filter. They were able to send me stuff after I reached out, though, and it was never marked as spam... yay Gmail spam filter? Heh I was using GMail too. Maybe my settings are different, who knows. 
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Feb 5, 2014 23:13
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GOOCHY posted:You can do basically everything in the CCNA in Packet Tracer. If you want a fully accurate representation of all the commands in the router - setup GNS3. Yeah, this is what I did/am doing. It's annoying when you do run into differences between the simulated and actual CLI (the use of the pipe character seems to be the biggest problem I've encountered), but it's perfectly serviceable for CCENT/CCNA work. (that being said, i'm probably going to spend a few hundred just to get an actual switch and console to work on, if only because it's kind of fun) Feels Villeneuve fucked around with this message at 01:39 on Feb 6, 2014 |
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Feb 6, 2014 01:36
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I'm still waiting for VMware to call me back about my voucher. Apparently the coupon that Stanly provides is only good for purchasing the VCP510PSE (Student) exam, which is exactly the same as the VCP510 exam except that there is an entirely different process for getting approval for it that is cloaked in mystery. I've been waiting a week for the VMWare IT Academy Program Office to get back with me via email (since they apparently don't have a phone number that the VMware Customer Support folks know about) so that I can get the link to register for the student exam. At this point I'm just about to say gently caress it and drop the $250 on a regular voucher so I can get it out of the way. Anyone know of any discount codes I can use?
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I finally got hard copies of my BCCPA and BCCPP today. Theyre not as cool looking as my other certs. Have they changed the CISSP yet? Im planning on taking it next month and Ive heard there may have been changes to which modules are being focused on.
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Feb 6, 2014 10:11
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psyopmonkey posted:I finally got hard copies of my BCCPA and BCCPP today. Theyre not as cool looking as my other certs. What did you use to study for it? I was considering this book because I really liked Gibson for the Security+ exam.
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Feb 6, 2014 11:13
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psydude posted:What did you use to study for it? I was considering this book because I really liked Gibson for the Security+ exam. The 11th hour book is really good and gets to the point. Its also an ebook! I cant speak to the gibson book. Also having a few years experience in IA and CND helps a lot. There are vce's out there for this test and ive heard most are pretty accurate.
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Passed the Oracle Certified Professional (OCP) Database 11g exam earlier this week. The exam content is about 65% just RMAN/backup/recovery/flashback and then small chunks of memory management/tuning/scheduler/resource manager to top it up to 100%. I found the Oracle Press book for OCP to be very good and there was very little in the exam which wasn't covered. The only downside to the book is the practises are poor and in some places simply wrong or very subjective. So the chapters are great, but expect to shout at the practise exercises. The CD that came with the book has a practise exam on it which had some value, but some of the 'correct' answers were wrong or again very subjective (e.g. pick the 'best' without any criteria). The real exam didn't appear to have any wrong 'correct' answers or any subjective questions. 2 other resources I found which were very useful - The CBT nuggets videos and the transcender practise exams. The quality of the questions in the transcender practise exams was good and I think it was money well spent as it was pitched at the same level as the real exam. It also has good detailed explanations when you 'show answers' and has hyperlinks to the relevant sections in the Oracle docs for further reading. I used this a lot. My main tip for preparing for this exam is to try everything on a crash and burn test database. I must have done 100 backups/restores and tried all the scenarios to cause failures and fix it for real.
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psyopmonkey posted:The 11th hour book is really good and gets to the point. Its also an ebook! I cant speak to the gibson book. I have both of Eric Conrad's books and was planning on using those to start working through the CISSP. And using Shon Harris' AIO monstrosity as a reference/second opinion on things. I listened to a bunch of Shon Harris' mp3 lectures she has. I'm pumped up to start digging through the CISSP material but I really need to get the VCP exam done. Just can't get motivated to cram and schedule that test. 
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Studying for the CCNA and I have the pleasure of trying to learn VLSM. For the most part I understand it and using the VLSM table is great. The type of person I am though I want to figure out how it works, namely how the hell are the hosts determined when using the table? Its driving me crazy! For example, normally a /27 would have 32-2 = 30 hosts. But on the VLSM table it lists 25 hosts. I'm sure it obvious, but I cant figure it out.
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Feb 8, 2014 01:41
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Which table? I'd answer 30 as well.
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Feb 8, 2014 01:54
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Frag Viper posted:For example, normally a /27 would have 32-2 = 30 hosts. But on the VLSM table it lists 25 hosts. I'm sure it obvious, but I cant figure it out. That's wrong, definitely 30 hosts. What book & edition, worth it to check out the errata.
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I'm pretty sure its me just not understanding the VLSM concept yet and someone here will point that out shortly. Its from the latest Lammle CCNA book. Its asking to create a VLSM network using 192.168.10.0 LANS 192.168.10.32/27 192.168.10.8/29 192.168.10.64/27 192.168.10.16/28 WAN 192.168.10.108/30 192.168.10.96/30 192.168.10.100/30 192.168.10.104/30 It then asks to fill in the table. Everything is great until the host portion because doesn't match up to what it should be. This is the problem i'm having. I get subneting, but i'm stuck here right now.
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Feb 8, 2014 02:43
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He's giving you a scenario where there's a different number of hosts that need IP addresses and then showing which prefix you'd use to accommodate that number.
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Feb 8, 2014 03:03
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Always check the errata online if something doesn't make sense
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OH. MY. GOD... This was killing me. I was reading the same 3 pages for the last several hours. Thank you for this. I ran in to others errors early on, but this is pretty bad. I'm not retarded after all!
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I have about 70 days to get ITIL, Security+, and either MCTS or MCITP (70-680 or 70-685) certified. Looks like I'll be spending a lot of time here! I have the CompTIA Security+: Get Certified Get Ahead: SY0-301 Study Guide as recommended in the OP in my shopping cart ready to buy. This came up in google for ITIL. Is it legit? Regarding MCTS or MCITP, which is actually better? Personally, the MCITP sounds better to me just being a more general pc troubleshooting type of thing as compared to focusing exclusively on Win7. Thoughts?
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Fiendish Dr. Wu posted:I have about 70 days to get ITIL, Security+, and either MCTS or MCITP (70-680 or 70-685) certified. Looks like I'll be spending a lot of time here! Try this book for ITIL. linky You could study the material for 2 weeks and pass. The test is retard level easy.
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Fiendish Dr. Wu posted:Regarding MCTS or MCITP, which is actually better? Personally, the MCITP sounds better to me just being a more general pc troubleshooting type of thing as compared to focusing exclusively on Win7. Thoughts? MCITP title has been retired and 70-685 doesn't get you any certification by itself. If you pass both 680 and 685 you'll get MCSA: Windows 7. Edit: Actually I see the ability to get the MCITP title has been extended until July 31. For both server and desktop I guess. Amphion fucked around with this message at 05:49 on Feb 8, 2014 |
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Amphion posted:MCITP title has been retired and 70-685 doesn't get you any certification by itself. If you pass both 680 and 685 you'll get MCSA: Windows 7. With that in mind, considering I'm on a 4 month contract (mar-jun) to perm, MCITP wouldn't actually do anything for my resume? Either 680 or 685 are required after starting my position, but I'm thinking about which one will be beneficial in the long term.
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psyopmonkey posted:Try this book for ITIL. linky This actual exam costs silly money though.
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Fiendish Dr. Wu posted:With that in mind, considering I'm on a 4 month contract (mar-jun) to perm, MCITP wouldn't actually do anything for my resume? Just get one and focus on server infrastructure, here is a really good explanation from a previous page DrAlexanderTobacco posted:Getting an MCSA (aka MCITP/windows 7) in desktop support will condemn you to desktop support. Getting one for server infrastructure proves you can be trusted on the back-end, especially with features such as Active Directory, Group Policy etc. And people generally assume that if you can handle a server you can handle a client-side operating system.
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Passed both my A+ cert tests this past month ( ) and I want to make sure I've got this Continuing Education program understood: I need to pay the annual fee of my highest level certification ($25 for A+) and then I can enter in Continuing Education Units that I earn through taking additional courses, through work, or by achieving a higher level certification or taking a newer version of my existing certification exam?So, for example, if I want to look at Network+ as a future goal to work towards for 7 months from now, would I have to pay the full 3 year CE cost for the A+, or do I pay one year for the A+ and then upon getting the Network+ Certification my annual fee rises to $49 and starts a new 3 year period effective immediately, which I would then have to pay before entering any new CEUs towards maintaining both certifications? e: vvv  Of course I missed it in the very last line on that page. Thanks. So as long as I take a higher level certification within 3 years I'll be fine and dandy.
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I think the Network+ will just renew the A+ when you take it. That CE program has never really made much sense to me.quote:If you plan on taking a higher-level CompTIA certification to fulfill your renewal requirements, no CE maintenance fees are required.
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If you're in a position where renewing your A+ is a concern, you're doing it wrong. A+ exists to get your foot in the door so you can bootstrap yourself to a middle-class job. CE fees would be better invested in study materials for just about any non-CompTIA exam.
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