Best place, for CCNA, CCNP, Comptia A+

dowie · 27 Oct 2015 at 15:45

Well it is a distance learning university, so generally you study part time while working which is often cost effective for people who want to pursue a qualification later in life.

DAIR · 27 Oct 2015 at 15:59

N17 said:
And I take it, that they have different centres over the UK, for the courses?

Yeah. Checkout their website.

N17 · 4 Nov 2015 at 14:18

DJMK4 said:
I wouldnt bother with bootcamps,

Self learn, I passed my CCNA, iv passed the Route exam for CCNP, just need to do the other two exams to get the CCNP

All through CBT Nuggets videos, doing the labs in GNS3, and using online reading through 3rd party websites and cisco websites.

Video, make notes, lab, read, lab, read lab

Boot camps are way too expensive and most often than not too quick you dont soak in the info.

Split the CCNA for ICND1 and 2, dont bother doing the one exam route.

For the lab, is that virtual or non virtual

Nate--IRL-- · 4 Nov 2015 at 17:11

Virtual labs in GNS3 will do for nearly everything. CCNP switch might require real hardware - at least it did about 3 years ago.

Nate

Craig321 · 4 Nov 2015 at 17:16

DJMK4 said:
if you have never taken a cisco exam before, you need to get used to the format.

Things about the exam are

- You cant mark questions
- You cant review questions
- You cant go back
- -You need to answer questions you know quickly, dont faff about - If you know it and sure, just select and go forward.
- You need to be conscious of time
- You will get lab sims, and some questions which will be a sim, which will have 4 embedded questions within one scenario, so counter this in.

Sounds like they've made them sucky recently then! I took my CCNA exam about 6 years ago now and I seem to remember being able to review, mark and I think I could go back afterwards as well.