Just Passed CCNA Security Exam.....Info on Next Step please
Just Passed CCNA Security Exam.....Info on Next Step please
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Hi all, just passed the CCNA security exam. Im looking for the next now. I thinking of either CCNP (R&S) or CCNP Security. Would like to hear of people who might have taken both exams and can give me brief intro on the exam topics and idea's on where the market is moving at the moment. I think that there is a big demand for security professional but I think that R&S is still a good foundation and should be taken first. What are your thoughts? Is there any overlap topics on the two exams?
RE: Just Passed CCNA Security Exam.....Info on Next Step please
CCNP, CCDP, CCIP
Core Network Planner, ISP
RE: Just Passed CCNA Security Exam.....Info on Next Step please
RE: Just Passed CCNA Security Exam.....Info on Next Step please
RE: Just Passed CCNA Security Exam.....Info on Next Step please
Can you or anyone give me some pointers on a good CCNP lab.
I have the following at the moment.
1 * 2950 Switch
1 * 2801 Router 2 * Fa slots and 1 * Serial
1 * 2600 series Router 4 * Serial Interfaces
2 * 2500 Series routers 2 * Serial interfaces each
Can probadly get hold of
2 * 2500 routers
2 * 2900 switches
I know that I am going to need another 2950 for STP when I do the switch exam but for the routing will i be able to lab everything using my home lab at the moment?
RE: Just Passed CCNA Security Exam.....Info on Next Step please
3 switches for STP, just to get a good view of how it interacts.
3 routers for doing OSPF/RIP based connections
4 routers to do EIGRP. Maybe seemed odd to want 4 routers for EIGRP only, but basically, I set them up in a square and did some manipulations with metrics and such to watch the feasible successor changes.
What model are your 2500's? They are getting pretty limited anymore for what you can do with them, but I think they can still provide value in a home lab as a stub area in OSPF, or even a node at the end of a frame-relay connection.
You can supplement with GNS3 or Dyanmips, but I still don't think it gives quite the same experience as working with the real hardware.
RE: Just Passed CCNA Security Exam.....Info on Next Step please
Also be aware that Cisco just changed their CCNP exams. It used to be 4 exams and is now down to 3. The following is right from the Cisco website:
- 642-902 ROUTE
- 642-813 SWITCH
- 642-832 TSHOOT
I was thinking of getting my CCNP next but I'm having a hard time finding good training materials, mainly videos. CBTNuggts will not have videos for the new CCNP until winter.
I just wanted to point this out incase some sites were still offering the old 4 exam version of the CCNP.
Personally I am going to for the CCNA Security so I can keep my certification current. Plus that will give more time for more companies to put out material for the new CCNP exam.
-Todd-
CCNA
MCTS: Sever 2008 AD Configuration
CompTIA: A+, Security+
**Mathmatics affects 7 out 5 people each day**
RE: Just Passed CCNA Security Exam.....Info on Next Step please
Anyway, my point is that I got the NA in the beginning of '06, the NP at the end of '06, and from there was wondering what to do next. I knew I liked the security side of the house more, but I kept working and bulding a rather large lab, four racks not quite full, but like 8 Workgroup Stack 3000 series (10Mbps) from long ago, a few 4000 series directors, an 1112 CSACS-E server, a Win2K Adv Server w/TACACS+, an ASA5510, three 3560 switches, three 3550 switches, three 3750 switches, one 3750-PoE switch, a PIX520, a 1720, 1750, two 1712's, an 1841, a 2950, three 2924XL's, two 3524XL's, three 2610's, three 2620's, a 2620XM, a 2503a 4948-10GE switch, and 5 more HP Proliant G1 servers and 4 more workstations...I'm sure I am missing something...? (I will post pics and a link for Facebook), and then started playing a LOT with the lab as it grew, studying, reading, and then my boss at the time sent me to Atlanta for Global Knowledge CCNA Security bootcamp---THAT is when I decided to keep going toward the CCSP path, so I got the CCNA Security, then renewed the NP with the IINS. Then work got really busy, and here I am, 1 1/2 yrs later...I am scheduling the lab for 6 months out so that I can get beaten up and know what to sorta expect.
That's my story and I'm stickin' to it... :)
oh, hey guys...Todd, Tad, Gene, and company, etc. I have been away for a while, pretty much working and studying. I passed with a 728/1000, but hey---you know what they call the guy who got a D- on the BAR exam, right?
:)
Burt
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RE: Just Passed CCNA Security Exam.....Info on Next Step please
Sniffer2112- The person who made the CCNA & CCNA Security videos for Trainsignal has a CCNP series out for the newer CCNP exams, but he (Chris Bryant ) isnt selling them through Trainsignl anymore. You have to buy them directly through his site. Quick search on google. I have brought the CCNP Route video and a couple of Cisco books and am going to start with this. I have learn alot during my CCNA and CCNA Security and implemented many concepts at work. But with the CCNP im thinking that Im just doing this just to get the qualification because we dont have muliple sites so no need to use routing protocols such as EIGRP, OSFP etc. Maybe after this exam I will have to start to look elsewhere in terms of employments so that I can better use my skills.
How long did it take you guys to prepare yourselves for the CCNP. I like to take my time and do alot of background reading and testing. Put aside around 6 months for the CCNA security.
RE: Just Passed CCNA Security Exam.....Info on Next Step please
D 172.16.141.0/24 via 10.1.1.2
D 172.16.0.0/16 via 10.1.1.3
S 0.0.0.0/0.0.0.0 (whatever it is...can't remember) via 10.1.1.5
and a packet with the IP address of 172.16.146.16/24 comes in...where does it go?
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no ip classless
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Ok...enough of the psychobabble ramblings-on...
With lab equipment, whatever your strong points are (routing and wireless plus WAN technologies, like MPLS...yuck! oh, and BGP...*puke*!, troubleshooting, remote access/security, or switching and VoIP---knock the easiest ones out of the way first---I would do the troubleshooting last---the knowledge of everything else leads to the inevitable culmination of knowledge---troubleshooting!
The important thing is HANDS ON!!!!!!!!!!!
I'll say it again...
The impor...
no I won't :)
Happy Times, homie!
-TIMMAY!
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Technical Support: http://www.cisco.com/techsupport
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Compiled Thu 11-Feb-1539 23:02 by ßµ®†Šß€€Š
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Edge uptime is 469¼