CCNA

SoundsGood · 24 Sep 2009 at 17:07

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wesley · 24 Sep 2009 at 17:41

depending how long the course is

my CCNA course at my college was a year, so i would say about 10 hours a week

SoundsGood · 24 Sep 2009 at 18:06

Ah, it's 9months and they're estimating 12h/week. thanks

bigredshark · 25 Sep 2009 at 11:54

It also depends on what you know already obviously, if you're working with this day to day then it should be less (a lot less)

ukgazman · 26 Sep 2009 at 13:06

probably 5-10hours. If you can buy the CBT Nuggets DVD it'll make your life a lot easier. The guy explaining things is great in combination with the background reading.

J.B · 27 Sep 2009 at 16:32

mine was about a week-week and a half long did about 7 or 8 hours a day.

CCNA 1 and 2 were pretty easy

mi9tchy · 27 Sep 2009 at 22:02

im starting ccna3 its 12ish weeks 3hours class a week

Hairybudda · 27 Sep 2009 at 22:10

Can anyone recommend some good books to go along with the CBT Nuggets DVD?

Xenoxide · 28 Sep 2009 at 08:32

I did it at university as fun thing to do, seperate to my degree. I used the online resources and the official CCNA books and probably did about 3 hours a week, plus a couple of hours more for playing around on equipment.

It helps if you get some stuff to practice on. I got a Cisco 2611 router, a Catalyst 2924XL switch, and a second router that I can't remember the model of at this time (Cisco SOHO router) for less than £250 in total. Well worth it.

If you don't wanna get equipment there's supposedly a pretty good emulator out there, but I don't know much about it.

Kona* · 28 Sep 2009 at 09:32

Hairybudda said:
Can anyone recommend some good books to go along with the CBT Nuggets DVD?

I done the ICND1 & ICND2 courses over two weeks and swatted up using PacketTracer and the official Cisco Exam books, then finally sitting the all-in-one CCNA exam. One of the lads on the course was using a Sybex book which I had a flick through, it looked very similar to the official Cisco books although it taught you how to do subnetting a different way - not that it matters, so long as the answer is the same