CCNA cert

[carlhester at gmail.com (Carl Hester)]

I got my CCNA in 2000 and it was a nice jumping off point for the rest of my
networking career.  In studying for the CCNA, I learned a lot about basic
routing & switching, simple protocols and subnetting-  the kinds of things
that seem second nature to me today.

I never thought about applying security knowledge to the CCNA course, but
it's definitely a solid groundwork for anything network related.

As with any Cisco exam, there is a big difference in knowing the material
and passing the test.

Let me know if you have any questions along the way, I'll be happy to help.


Carl


On Mon, Nov 3, 2008 at 4:58 PM, Robin Wood <dninja at gmail.com> wrote:

> 2008/11/3  <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.
>
> I think the bigest security related thing for me was seeing what the
> defaults are, how hard they are to change and so being able to work
> out what someone will leave as default and what they will change.
>
> Robin
>
> > -------------- 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 l earnt 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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