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GLBP is on the CCNA now? Neat. I'll be happy to answer any questions that may not be clear from reading/studies as I'm sure many other folks here would be. It can be pretty demoralizing to fail a test twice but I'm sure most of us have been there. To practice the topics you may consider looking at something like GNS3 to cover things like routing protocols or FHRPs. Optionally you should be able to make Cisco's VIRL work for you.
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sudo rm -rf posted:I've got my CCNP Switch exam this friday. I'd be curious if it is still more of a CCNP FHRP exam since the latest updates.
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Mar 23, 2015 21:35
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sudo rm -rf posted:So, CCNP Switch tomorrow. I feel pretty good about vlans, vtp, stp, and the various gateway redundancy protocols. My weakest area is probably related to the various miscellaneous security features. Anyone got any last-minute advice or had a subject emphasis you weren't really expecting? I had a couple VLAN ACL questions I needed to address but that's about all I can remember. I took the test some years ago.. I might have posted a trip report so I'm going to go check my post history. edit: No trip report  me posted:CCNP Switch down.. Never have to take another test with wireless on it again for as long as I live!
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Mar 26, 2015 22:22
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Which book did you use? Are VLAN ACLs on the new blueprint even? (these will be different from your typical access-lists)
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Mar 27, 2015 03:03
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sudo rm -rf posted:Retook 300-115. Passed with a 965/1000. Excellent! You have ROUTE and TSHOOT left?
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sudo rm -rf posted:Yep. It's going to more difficult because of how little routing I do at work. Giving myself about 2-3 months to study, shooting for taking ROUTE sometime in June. Routing protocols themselves aren't too difficult but certainly expect some redistribution stuff. It touches a lot on that.
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Apr 3, 2015 21:14
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NippleFloss posted:What a weird statement to make without following up in any way on why you think this. I guess if you're looking at the 5548UP with an l3 daughter card it's a pretty big steaming pile compared to an Arista or Juniper box. The 5600 series is pretty solid and supports unified port/FCoE though and FEX is pretty awesome in a data center. I'm really not sure exactly what else is lovely between a Nexus and competitors though except maybe cost? That said, Cisco gets pretty aggressive on the 9k series (but no FC forwarding.)
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Apr 28, 2015 18:53
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BaseballPCHiker posted:I just got an email from CompTIA. Apparently it's not enough to have passed the CCNA since I've gotten my Network+. They also require a $147 3 year renewal fee! What a crock of poo poo. I dont even think it's worth getting reimbursed by my employer for. Any negative consequences if I let it lapse? I mean I could still list it on my resume if need be right? If you're already employed in networking you will probably never care about the network+ ever again. If you've already got your CCNA then you will probably never care about the network+ again.
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Jul 2, 2015 02:59
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Race Realists posted:these CCNA/P Data Center certs seem intriguing to me The CCNP Data Center will cover a lot of UCS, a lot of Nexus and a small amount of storage (MDS switching.) The exams for them are also partner specialist exams and I don't think there are any simlets on any of the tests.
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Aug 8, 2015 17:21
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CheeseSpawn posted:Anyone have ine access pro pass? I'm on the fence on getting it for a few months. AAP is a subscription so they're probably motivated to get you onboard. That said I was pretty happy with mine. Depending on the track the videos are pretty informative. What you looking at studying?
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Sep 11, 2015 03:56
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Japanese Dating Sim posted:I have a 10 year goal to get CCIE certified. I'm not even CCNA yet. Take it step by step. Start with CCNA (which can be taken in two parts), work your way up through each of the CCNPs. Start with SWITCH, then ROUTE, then work into TSHOOT. Don't use dumps, try to understand the material. For the CCNP I recommend the foundation learning guides for each of the tests as a starting point. Your jobs should start getting progressively more advanced as you go taking on more responsibility. If you can get on at a VAR they'll give you exposure to a lot of different environments where you'll start seeing more esoteric features/designs being deployed. If you do a good job they'll probably even invest in training you and paying for your lab since a CCIE in any discipline addresses partner requirements which means more margin on deals for the partner. Most VARs will have no trouble covering the cost for a couple of attempts (you'll likely fail your first so don't be discouraged) but it's a drop in the bucket compared to the befit. Odds are it will get paid for out of MDF anyway. 10 years is a completely reasonable timeframe.
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Oct 15, 2015 21:21
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Race Realists posted:Has anyone ever tried the CCDA/DP exams? CC*A/CC*P are typically proctored exams you take in the same testing center you'd take your entry level exams. It's the expert level exams that make you travel.
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Nov 9, 2015 18:15
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Alain Post posted:ROUTE is going to kick my rear end, man. Studying when you actually have a job is so much harder Spend some time in GNS3 or optionally Cisco VIRL (worth the money to me.) http://virl.cisco.com/getvirl/ One advantage to VIRL is you don't have to go scouring the internet for IOS images. In addition to routing protocol fundamentals you're going to want to be pretty solid at route redistribution.
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Dec 2, 2015 09:40
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crunk dork posted:Is VIRL pretty good to study for the 210-260? Education license 1/yr is only $80 I use it all the time to validate various things before I do them. It's a tool you'll probably use a lot long after you pass any tests. If it includes the devices used in that exam then yes, worthy investment.
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Dec 31, 2015 21:21
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ChubbyThePhat posted:It would be 0.0.0.1 because it only has to match the last bit in the address. Back in the day you used to have to do a lot of funky wildcard masks to cut down on the number of ACL entries since you only had so much TCAM space.
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Feb 4, 2016 02:29
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Spudalicious posted:So I've got funding for training this year and I want some input. I'm CCNA Routing/Security already, and a lot of what I do is managing our multi-site WAN, but I also have a lot of responsibilities with our virtual cluster (VMWare) and associated hardware and VMs. We are thinking of moving to a 100% VOIP phone system in the next year or two. Funding for training in 2017 and on is not guaranteed. This only my opinion but this worked out for me: 1. VCP 2. CCNP R+S (or collab if you're really interested in voice work) The rest I would take in order of interest level. That makes you a pretty attractive hire for 1099 work, VARs, consulting, etc.
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Feb 6, 2016 20:42
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sudo rm -rf posted:I've got CCNP - ROUTE tomorrow. wish me luck! For me this was the hardest of the 3 tests. Mostly because it can be pretty easy to get lost in redistribution if you're not paying attention. I took it a couple years ago, but I'm pretty sure redistribution is still going to be a thing.. The moral of this post is know redistribution, AD, etc.
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Mar 10, 2016 23:49
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Moey posted:Ahhh never mind, is it the Cisco Nexus 1000V I am thinking of? Probably closer to being accurate though if ACI becomes a thing it may end up being relevant again.
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Mar 27, 2016 22:49
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NippleFloss posted:I don't believe ACI will ever be a thing. Fair statement. Better off just doing EVPN and keeping network ops mostly the same. Then optionally layer NSX on top of that if needed.
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Mar 28, 2016 21:46
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OhDearGodNo posted:I'm going to start going completely in for CCNP, I plan to use GNS3 and a mix of CBT Nuggets and INE. GNS but now I just use VIRL: http://virl.cisco.com/ Also here: https://learninglabs.cisco.com/ might have some stuff (I think even a hosted version of VIRL)
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Apr 2, 2016 21:19
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Ahdinko posted:For our CCIE's out there, what material did you use to pass (for R&S)? A lot of INE stuff, reading the actual documentation (it's dry but trust me its worth doing) and books on any topics I wasn't strong on. I budgeted out enough rack rental tokens with INE to cover my study ramp up and two attempts at the lab. From a timeline perspective I'd expect to take from 12-18 months. As you get closer to the lab date you'll probably be labbing 8-12 hours a day on weekends and on weeknights 2-4. I probably started with 8 hours a week and every couple months I'd add a few more hours a week. I'd say VIRL will probably get you most of the way there/you could start there. You'll still want to burn some rack time. INE often does pre-configured/pre-staged for CCIE lab rack rentals and they'll offer simulated labs with grading. I also used an IPExpert lab guide which seemed to be pretty challenging as well. Also I can't stress reading the actual documentation enough.
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Bigass Moth posted:One of the ccies I work with said once I'm at a level of experience that the ccnp is easy I'm not far from the ccie. Do you feel that way? My focus is collaboration so it may be different from routing. I guess its relative. I mean if you're close to being ready for CCIE R+S then good odds that the CCNP R+S is going to feel easy. There's a lot of stuff that won't be covered by the CCNP. For example I don't think it covers things like PfR, VRF, ODR, tunnels, it barely touches ipv6 and the BGP content on the CCNP is pretty elementary. I don't think it covered MPLS or DMVPN either. The other thing is going to be the pressure of time. You're going to get a 2 hour block of troubleshooting, a new diagnostic section (which I've never done) and 5 and a half hours of config time and you half to take lunch when the group does.
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Eletriarnation posted:Well, every path is of course different but from knowing basically nothing about networking I needed about 4 months of being a networking lab intern and some off-hours study (mainly just reading the Cisco Press and Sybex guides) to pass the CCNA with two tries. Would have been one except they still asked about Frame Relay on the version I took and I never worked with it, so I missed a lot of the details. I did the DC lab exam and yeah studying for it meant a lot of reading of product documentation. The written itself was kind of horrible, not so much in difficulty but in just outright memorization of stupid details like how many of what DIMMs fit in a particular C series model. Of course then the next question might be about how fabricpath behaves given a set of specific conditions. All in all the CCIE DC written is a pretty disjointed exam. I did the DC because it touched on everything I was living with day to day. UCS, FCP, iSCSI, and even FabricPath were all things I had to deal with on a day to day basis. I was actually fortunate enough to train on UCS back when it was still called "California" and I spent 18 months at a customer site that was UCS/Nexus and MDS. I can tell you now that those years of experience help tremendously (gently caress you Cisco for making an oversubscribed fibre channel switch) because the lab exam itself is like 10-12 hours worth of work with a lot of exercises that are dependent on previous exercises. You'll have nice big tasks that are worth say 6-8 points but then you might have a task worth 2 points (you need 80 to pass) and if you gently caress it up then you won't be able to make 4 more tasks down the road worth 2 points each work. If you're gunning for the lab I'd say the IPExpert workbooks are probably better overall than INEs (for the DC at least) but you'll end up renting racks from INE to fill in the gaps.
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Eletriarnation posted:That's good to know, I'll definitely look into it. Were there any materials in particular that you found valuable when studying for the written test, or was that mostly gleaned from real world experience? Taking this tomorrow to renew my certification. Will come back with a trip report if my notes are worth a poo poo!
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Apr 16, 2016 02:39
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Eletriarnation posted:That's good to know, I'll definitely look into it. Were there any materials in particular that you found valuable when studying for the written test, or was that mostly gleaned from real world experience? My old study materials were largely worthless. They've revamped the test pretty significantly even on the 1.0 blueprint so I'm going to have to take it again sometime in the next 4 weeks. Previously there were a lot of NXOS internals and a couple basic ACE questions. Now it's covering more fabricpath, more FCIP, more iSCSI, more UCS and oddly more ACE.
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Apr 17, 2016 07:33
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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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Jun 25, 2016 02:10
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Fudge posted:No, let me clarify: if all you have is an A+, I'm throwing it out. I'd value a six month contract doing nothing but password resets at a call center over an A+ at this point. These are entry level positions - were getting people with just A+'s and they aren't worth anything. If its entry level then just hire someone (A+ or otherwise) with a reasonable personality thats willing to learn. The only people who are going to know how to do the job you've probably already fired or they've been promoted. Unless you're paying better than market rate I wouldn't expect anyone to make lateral moves to your open position that already knows everything you're looking for.
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Ahdinko posted:To CCIE's or someone who has passed something with similar study requirements: Study, understand and apply it on a regular basis. I would consider going through some of INE's lab materials to help cement it in there and even do some science experiments on your own. I believe they offer some VIRL topologies on their github. If your day job involves networking start thinking of problems on a deeper level and maybe try to determine your network's behavior based on the configuration then go validate it with appropriate 'show' commands.
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Japanese Dating Sim posted:Is there a vendor-neutral storage certification? I know that sounds boring as gently caress and probably is, but I feel like knowledge of storage is a big black hole in my skillset. I don't necessarily want to get certified in something but I would like to have a structured study plan. I dunno if I'd invest time/effort into a storage-centric certification or training. The storage industry is changing pretty significantly and I fall back on approximately 0 of my previous knowledge. Now-a-days you can buy all flash storage for pretty cheap and there are plenty of reliable vendors out there that are also stupidly easy to manage. Some exceptions to this might be something like Ceph. What sorts of storage are you encountering in your job?
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