CCNA Question

[tntcoder]

Hi,

I have a lot of networking experience, up to degree level but i have never touched any cisco equipment. I was wondering if i can/should do a CCNA purely by learning from simulators, online material and typical study books? Ive been told its possible to do, i was really just wondering if, if you pass the ccna without having seen a physical cisco box, are you still going to have a decent knowledge from the course material / simulator experience to know whats what on them and how to plug the 'bits and bobs' togeather?

I would ideally get a home lab but cant really justify the cost during 3rd year of uni

Cheers,
Jack

 

[tntcoder]

I am just surprised that you can study upto degree level and not involve any Cisco kit? Cisco are the dominant supplier of networking hardware, I would think there are very few commercial LAN/WAN that have no cisco kit at some point.

I am surprised as well, all the work i have done is mostly theory based for example complete teachings of TCP/IP, all the OSI, switches/routers/hubs etc on a generic level. But i have never done anything vendor/cisco specific which is why i want to do the CCNA, so i dont look like a fool when it comes to getting a job and working with actual industry networks.

Thanks for all the advice, looks like i can probably pull it off with lots of simulator work