Cisco Courses - help!

pyro said:
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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You book it yourself through a Prometric test centre (which are everywhere). It's around £80.
 
You can od a CCNA in 5 days at many training camps. It's not particularly cheap or the best way to actually learn it, but it's the quickest way to get the certificate :)
 
I would actually like to know what I am doing after I have passed mine, hence I am buying some hardware and doing it properly, what good is passing if when it comes to it you don't have a clue.
 
My moneys on it'll be the ICND (Interconnecting Cisco Network Devices) as it's a sensible starting point for someone with knowledge of networking but maybe not cisco's kit. It's a nice mixture of lessons and hands on with the kit (labs) and supposedly teaches all you need to pass the CCNA.

But a week (5 days) is a long time in training circles, all of the below are 5 day courses from most training companies;

BSCI - Building Scalable Cisco Internetworks
BCMSN - Cisco Multilayer Switched Networks
BCRAN - Building Cisco Remote Access Networks
CIT - Cisco Internetwork Troubleshooting
ARCH - Designing Cisco Network Service Architectures
SND - Securing Cisco Network Devices
SNRS - Securing Networks with Cisco Routers and Switches
SNPA - Securing Networks with PIX and ASA v4.0

As a rule the documentation you get from training companies is really good, and becomes a useful long term reference.

Just back at work this week after a week doing the SNPA course, which is good fun and I would recommend it to anyone wanting to get a handle on the Pix or ASA products, or studying towards one of the cisco security qualifications.
 
I think we should clear something up here if people are confused. The academy program is a seperate thing from the CCNA INTRO and ICND exams. The Cisco academy is just one (although probably the most thorough) training program to prepare you for the actual CCNA exam. You don't get a formal qualification for the academy itself, only for the INTRO + ICND exams which you can do as a single exam if you want. You don't need to do the academy program to get the CCNA.

I did most of the academy course before getting my CCNA but I couldn't be bothered to do the project for semester 3 and 4. I just went ahead and did it without officially finishing the academy course.
 
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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Well my teachers at college covered every semester in a week and came out with their certificates so they could teach us.
 
As far as i can tell there is two different aproaches to CCNA qulifications, one is the cram it all in your head in a week\2weeks aimed at people with experience and the other is a longer route designed for people with no experience.
 
Hmmm i did my CCNA in 2 weeks, like its been said before its a piece of cake is u remember your stuff which luckily i did. I found it a lot more easier than the MCSE/MCSA course and exams i took a few yrs back.
 
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