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flatpack flapjack posted:This is helpful information. I plan on taking a spin thru Messer's material, and I'll definitely spend some time brushing up on my networking. Suddenly starting to wish I hadn't sold my Network Security textbook back to the bookstore It's hard in the sense that it's pick the least worst of a bunch of bad answers. It's worthwhile to study for so you know which if the banal answers is it. It's easy, but the questions run the gamut of "someone is peeking in the windows, do you put up fencing, lighting, CCTV, or barricades" to here's this stupidly worded ACL, figure something out. I've been a network admin for three years now, and I thought there's a fifty fifty chance of passing it with zero studying, but it's worthwhile to listen to professor Messer, take some practice tests, and read through the Mike Meyers sec+ passport. One of the practice test sites was much better than the others, I forget which, but probably half the test is either rote knowledge of abbreviations and basic familiarity, and the other half is trying to figure out what they're asking. It's probably easier than the Net+. Also keep in mind they're switching test versions in a few months. Also, don't forget to buy the academic discount voucher. If you've got a student email, it's a hundred bucks off the regular price. Also, I got an email from CompTIA saying I now have " stackable certs", which, looking at their choice of abbreviations, is just  "CSCP" and "CCAP" which sound an awful lot like CCNP and other more respected Cisco certs, lol E: I spent about two weeks studying for it, just fyi. I just read a chapter or more a day in the book, too some practice tests, and listened to the videos when I had downtime or was doing something else. I was going to study longer, but I had a backpacking trip this week and didn't want it hanging over my head. I'm not sure spending longer studying would have helped anyways, to be honest. OSU_Matthew fucked around with this message at 20:20 on Apr 21, 2018 |
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Completed the second Linux+ exam yesterday and passed! Feels good. But... This was my first CompTIA exam, and I kept finding myself frustrated at how obsolete the material was...maybe half of the material was relevant to modern Linux distributions, and would be useful in administrating a Linux environment. The other half was "historical" topics...stuff that would have been useful 10 years ago, but now students are expected to learn it for historical context? Waste of time. Are all of the CompTIA exams like this?
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Some worse than others but yes. They want you to be able to support lovely legacy systems as well as modern, so there is some fringe benefit to the obscure stuff. N+ and A+ are also pretty bad about this but are getting better, in that the obscure stuff is from 10 years ago and not 15+. S+ is better.
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When I took my A+ in 2007, I was still expected to memorize IRQ settings. CompTIA isn't the best on updating their curriculum.
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Let me tell you something about Windows Vista system requirements.
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Vista? My prof just told us we need to know the boot process for xp 
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AnonymousNarcotics posted:Vista? My prof just told us we need to know the boot process for xp XP is still the 3rd most popular OS worldwide. 
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Passed the 2018 version of the AWS Solutions Architect Associate exam today. Way over-prepared, but i do have AWS experience. Most of the questions were around AWS Lambda and the various storage options (S3, EBS, EFS, Storage Gateway)
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FCKGW posted:XP is still the 3rd most popular OS worldwide. We have a couple VMs running XP 
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vyst posted:Passed the 2018 version of the AWS Solutions Architect Associate exam today. Way over-prepared, but i do have AWS experience. Most of the questions were around AWS Lambda and the various storage options (S3, EBS, EFS, Storage Gateway) Cool, I’m going to start preparing for that soon, what materials did you use to study?
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vyst posted:Passed the 2018 version of the AWS Solutions Architect Associate exam today. Way over-prepared, but i do have AWS experience. Most of the questions were around AWS Lambda and the various storage options (S3, EBS, EFS, Storage Gateway) I took it about a year ago and there was almost no Lambda on it. Guess they’re pretty aggressively updating it to spotlight the things they want people to care about.
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Acloud.guru for CBT and labs Whizlabs for practice exams AWS white papers Pretty cheap materials for the most part
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fromoutofnowhere posted:Also, in order to get a bit of experience and to hopefully land an entry level job, what tools should I look to get familiar with? I've already got Kali linux on a Virtualbox, but most of the tools in there are new to me other than wireshark and some of the basic Terminal commands in Linux. What do you guys recommend for learning Linux and becoming something more than a casual user? By far the best book on Linux that I have read is "Your Unix/Linux: The Ultimate Guide" by Sumitabha Das. I first got it as part of a class in college when it was just "Your Unix", and bought the 3rd edition of "Your Unix/Linux" years later. It's distro-agnostic, and focused on scripting and system programming. It does not have any detail on e.g. the tools you'd find in Kali or services you'd be running, just the OS, shell, and programming. Some subjects it just touches on briefly, without giving super in-depth discussion (e.g. networking), and it is pretty out-of-date for most modern Linux distros ("sysadmin" chapter teaches SystemV, doesn't mention file systems past ext3, no SELinux, etc). If you want to be comfortable in a shell, though, it's good at that. For server admin type stuff, I have an RHCSA (and am about to start studying for the RHCE), and read both Jang and Ghori's books for RHEL7. I prefered the Ghori book, since it seemed more useful as a reference (more tables, mostly) and I like the way it is structured better, but most people in reviews seem to prefer Jang. Either one would have been sufficient, and they both cover pretty much the same material. The latest version of either will give you more information on several of the various services that you'd expect to find running on a modern RHEL7-based distro, plus basic system admin stuff. For non-RHEL-based distros (or older ones), there will be some differences in e.g. package managers, possibly init systems, where configuration files are, and so on. edit: While I'm in this thread anyway, does anyone have an opinion on if it's worth it to pick up the Security+ cert in between getting my RHCSA (at the beginning of this month) and starting studying for my RHCE? My day-to-day job involves a lot of networking, but I enjoy the stuff I do with Linux a lot and figure that the networking experience + red hat / security certs might look good / well-rounded to prospective employers in the future. I also have an MEF-CECP2.0, which is probably not all that useful on a resume, but my employer paid for it and it is nice to have a common vocabulary with telco carriers' engineers. nightchild12 fucked around with this message at 01:30 on Apr 24, 2018 |
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Thanks! That book is a bit out of my price range right now, but it's on the list.
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Does anyone have recommendations for Net+ study material?
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sniper4625 posted:Does anyone have recommendations for Net+ study material? The Mike Meyers books worked well for me
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sniper4625 posted:Does anyone have recommendations for Net+ study material? PMed you like 7 times
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AnonymousNarcotics posted:PMed you like 7 times Obliged 7 times over. Thanks thread!
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Kind of a dumb question, but would 4 months be enough time to get CCENT and A+/Net+? Assuming I have 7 days a week to focus on learning.
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Woof Blitzer posted:Kind of a dumb question, but would 4 months be enough time to get CCENT and A+/Net+? Assuming I have 7 days a week to focus on learning. Yes if you have a year or two of network job experience, otherwise no. Why A+?
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Woof Blitzer posted:Kind of a dumb question, but would 4 months be enough time to get CCENT and A+/Net+? Assuming I have 7 days a week to focus on learning. It took me 30 days to get the full CCNA with 100% dedication to studying so it really depends on if you're dumb irl in general or not and how quickly you get stuff.
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I’m switching job fields and I’m trying to get my foot in the door while I go to school.
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Woof Blitzer posted:Kind of a dumb question, but would 4 months be enough time to get CCENT and A+/Net+? Assuming I have 7 days a week to focus on learning. Don't know about the A+/Net+ as these carry no weight in this part of the world. But 4 months for a CCENT at 7 days a weeks should be enough provided you have any kind of affinity with networking.
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Anyone have experience with the Nutanix NPX cert? I can't even find any information on it.
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Woof Blitzer posted:I’m switching job fields and I’m trying to get my foot in the door while I go to school. Skip the A+. It's useless if you have literally any other cert. And if you get ccent, N+ is mostly fodder, so don't worry about getting both. If you don't have networking experience, N+ and then ccent is a good track to take.
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Woof Blitzer posted:Kind of a dumb question, but would 4 months be enough time to get CCENT and A+/Net+? Assuming I have 7 days a week to focus on learning. Getting all 3 in 4 months would be rough I would think. Earlier this month I obtained the CCENT as my first cert and it took me 2 months of studying at 10-15 hours a week. Even if you have 7 days a week to study, ask yourself how much time you can actually devote to useful, productive learning. Most people hit a point of diminishing returns after a few hours of continuous study.
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nightchild12 posted:("sysadmin" chapter teaches SystemV, doesn't mention file systems past ext3, no SELinux, etc). what, no murderFS?
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CrazyLittle posted:what, no murderFS? They should let ol' Hans have a laptop so he can keep working on it. Edit: He should be out in 2023. Maybe he'll pick it up again? SamDabbers fucked around with this message at 01:32 on Apr 26, 2018 |
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Kazinsal posted:Anyone have experience with the Nutanix NPX cert? I can't even find any information on it. If you’re not working for Nutanix or a VAR then you probably shouldn’t care about it.
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CrazyLittle posted:what, no murderFS? It lists the following "standard file systems and their types": s5, ufs, ext2 or ext3, iso9660 or hsfs, msdos or pcfs, swap, bfs, proc or procfs. There's also a section on commands to work with floppy disks. Cutting edge stuff. nightchild12 fucked around with this message at 05:02 on Apr 26, 2018 |
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YOLOsubmarine posted:If you’re not working for Nutanix or a VAR then you probably shouldn’t care about it. I work for a VAR and am pretty much the SME for Nutanix related stuff here so I'm eyeballing the NPX.
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Passed the (ISC)˛ SSCP. edit: Tipped off that the NDA literally means can't discuss even my opinion of the exam. Onward to CISSP I go! evelyn87 fucked around with this message at 21:15 on Apr 30, 2018 |
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Just passed the RHCSA again. Need to start on the RHCE now.
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Congrats to both of you! Edit: to elaborate, I really wanted to go for RHCE but my boss pointed out it doesn’t improve my resume much. I have 10+ years of linux experience and that probably means more than upgrading my RHCSA to RHCE. And he’s probably right. I also wanted to knock out an AWS Solution Architect Associate which does add something to my resume, but I’m not sure if no AWS experience makes it really hard or worthwile. My current job will not include AWS working experience. So I’m wondering if I should go for some certs for generic “DevOps” tooling I (now) get to work with on a daily basis. Problem is that I don’t know if there are certs for stuff like Docker, Kubernetes, Jenkins, etc, let alone if they are worth pursuing. Basically, I don’t know what to go for next. LochNessMonster fucked around with this message at 21:20 on Apr 30, 2018 |
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I work in networking and have a CCNA already, but I was thinking of taking a deeper dive and pursuing a CCNP R/S to set myself apart a little more. Is there an accepted set of books for these exams? Lammle doesn't appear to offer any, and the last time I looked at an official Cisco book was about ten years ago and I wasn't very impressed with it then.
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The Bryant advantage is a seriously good resource for CCNA and ccnp. He puts a lot of work into updating his courses and tries to focus on what's on the test instead of what's in the book. It's also really helpful when you can see the command line work in real time to get an understanding of where outputs come from on test questions.
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Lets Get Patchy posted:What's the general consensus on the RHCSA cert? I was going to go for the Sever 2012 but I really like working with Unix. What's the best bang for the buck for a fresh graduate? I found RHCSA kind of fun, actually. They sit you at a computer with a VM to configure according to some given specifications, and as long as you get it done and your changes persist through reboots they don't give a gently caress how you did it. No internet access, obviously, so get good at reading man pages. Studying for it fresh out of school will give you a lot of confidence working in RHEL, if that's what you want to do for a living.
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a messed up horse posted:I found RHCSA kind of fun, actually. They sit you at a computer with a VM to configure according to some given specifications, and as long as you get it done and your changes persist through reboots they don't give a gently caress how you did it. No internet access, obviously, so get good at reading man pages. I agree. It's an interesting completely practical exam, no multiple-choice or anything.
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Has anyone had experience with Pluralsight's SYO-501 course? It's about 18 hours long versus Professor Messer's 13-14 hour course, and I feel like every bit of those extra 4 hours is just the instructor repeating topics he's already covered. Like, a topic will be covered for one section of the course, then later on, he'll bring up the topic again as part of a related heading and repeat the exact information almost verbatim. "As we mentioned before, honeynets are..." This has to be one of the most exhausting note-taking courses I've ever done also. It hits you with dozens upon dozens of topics/terms that all apparently deserve their own heading/video section (thus, worthy of writing in your notebook) but then only covers any of them for 1-2 minutes at most. My notes so far feel like basically just a list of flashcards. I'm still only in the first half of the course so hoping there's a bit more practical application of knowledge coming in the second half.
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