CCNA cert

[kbob at mchsi.com (kbob at mchsi.com)]

I just ordered the self pace book and software. From what I have seen so far I think it will help me better understand 
the thinking behind Cisco's products and implementations. Not to mention keeping up with network hardware.

-------------- Original message from "Robin Wood" <dninja at gmail.com>: -------------- 


> 2008/6/13 Robin Wood : 
> > 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 
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