CCNA cert

[dninja at gmail.com (Robin Wood)]

2008/6/13 Robin Wood <dninja at gmail.com>:
> Hi
> I hate to say it but I clicked on an advert gmail showed me for a CCNA
> course and reading the site it looks like it would be a quite
> interesting course. I got into security from being a developer rather
> than a sys admin so I know about networks but not at a highly detailed
> level.
>
> What do people think to the CCNA? Obviously it is Cisco specific
> hardware but reading the course content a lot of it is introducing
> protocols and network structures which would apply across vendor.
Just to feedback after asking the original question, I did the course
last week and it was very good, I learnt a lot of the basics behind
things I'd just taken for granted before. I think I got a couple of
security related things out of it such as vlans and why they are often
badly setup.

All in all, for someone without a sys-admin background I'd recommend
it as useful course just to get a good grounding in how the systems we
are working on actually work.

Robin