Cisco Courses - help!

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Hi all,

I start a new job next week and I've just been informed that instead of reporting to the office on the first day, I will be going to a training firm for "a Cisco course". Now, I'm guessing that this will be CCNA or similar, but I'm not familiar with what cisco courses are available and would like to do a little homework over the weekend if possible.

Can anyone give me an idea of likely week-long Cisco courses if there's more than just CCNA? Ideally, anyone have a synopsis of whichever course it may be?

Thanks in advance...
 
Dude CCNA takes like a year dude, a week long course won't be a certificate, it would merely be an orientation week or whatever, maybe to teach you the Cisco standars or whatever.
 
CCNA boot camps are done in a week, I reckon this course will be one of two things either the full CCNA or just the CCNA Intro course and exam.....either way good luck :)
 
pyro said:
Dude CCNA takes like a year dude, a week long course won't be a certificate, it would merely be an orientation week or whatever, maybe to teach you the Cisco standars or whatever.
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We did CCNA in 22 weeks, inc the end exam. This was on top of 4 modules at uni - i'm sure if you work hard you could get it done faster :p
 
CCNA may well take "like a year dude" if you are doing it via the academy program, however if you are doing it via commercial training providers then its two courses (assuming you don't have any experience), one for four days and one for five:

Part one is a four day couse, and is the INTRO course, info here

Part two is the ICND course, info here

I'd lay money on you being on one of these next week. Enjoy.
 
pyro said:
Dude CCNA takes like a year dude, a week long course won't be a certificate, it would merely be an orientation week or whatever, maybe to teach you the Cisco standars or whatever.
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Does it balls. A colleague of mine went from never having touched Cisco gear to having a CCNA in two weeks. It's a piece of cake.
 
pyro said:
2 weeks?! All 4 modules? In 2 weeks? bull**** :D
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What four modules? You have a list of material to learn, which you find on Cisco's website. Buy a couple of books, have access to the kit needed and it's just a case of getting the information in to your head, there's nothing complex about it.
 
Ok, there are 4 books, two theory and two labs books, each covering "semester" 1&2, and 3&4, all that you need to learn and do a written then a practical exam, and he did that in two weeks?
 
You don't need to do all that at all. There's a syllabus and one exam. You learn the material then take the exam.
 
Fair enough but I am sure there is a theory and a practical exam, and I really don't think it's possible to learn everything in just two weeks but maybe that's just me!
 
That's what my lecturer told me, that I have a theory and a practical, maybe the academy program is different, but I know that there are two exams.
 
pyro said:
That's what my lecturer told me, that I have a theory and a practical, maybe the academy program is different, but I know that there are two exams.
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You can take it as two exams, one for the INTRO material, one for ICND (Interconnecting Cisco Network Devices) but neither has a proper practical 'lab' examination. You will have IOS simulator questions though.

It's easier to take it as one exam though.
 
So say I have covered the syllabus and want to take the exam, now that I am not with the academy, where can I take the exam?
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just to clarify :

the semester / college course route is done like a night school type thing, over many weeks with multiple exams.

You can do it by taking 1 or 2 exams, self study - 1 exam being Intro & ICND combined, or 2 exams being longer yet more 'specific' versions of Intro and ICND.

Hope that helps!
 
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