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DJMK4

DJMK4

DJMK4

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Hi all,

I am not really a big fan of these "boot camp" style courses,

However work have offered us courses from the following website

http://www.theknowledgeacademy.com


I am in the networks team of a managed service, hosting, cloud, ISP company, so get involved with things like routing and switching (Cisco) internal/customer and core stuff, network security (using Cisco ASA, Cisco PIX, Juniper, Checkpoint) and Load balancers (F5, Cisco etc)


Although I have been in networks for 6+ years, never really had the time to do any certs, however I passed Cisco ICND1 using CBT and Official guides, GNS3 Labs) and feel confortable self studying. I am studying ICND2 at the moment (well just started)

This website offers ICND2 training, however I dont really want to go down that route, as I dont want to mix my home learning with theirs.


I only have a small bit of load balancing experience/knowledge, so I think the F5 course would be ok, however not sure if my pre-knowledge is enough to go on a course, most I have really done is analysed alarms on F5's, brought webservers in to load balancer (creating NAT's on firewall, rules, then creating the pools on the F5, and then the VIPs, and same sort of thing with Cisco Load Balancers, and Zeus LB's
I would like a bit more in depth knowledge of load balancing.


Apart from that is it worth even though I have a lot of experience doing any of the Cisco ASA Security type training? or work on something I have with the least experience in?
 
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I'm not a huge fan of these week long courses, you go away with a very light understanding of the theory and no long term memory of the practical stuff (plus its always remote labs). Saying that I did enjoy going to a Implementing Cisco Data Center Unified Fabric course last week. I'd never spend my money on them but if work are paying I'll gladly pick a course that I feel will in some way enhance my knowledge for the companies benefit.
 
dont like boot camp training either, its too full on and it doesnt sink in properly, im only doing it as they are offering.

I think its a toss up between F5, if they do a sort of introductury sort of course and not seriously full on

Cisco ASA I am good at and we use a lot of, so maybe some ASA Advanced security, but then I have usage and experience (although less of) Checkpoint and Juniper than ASA's, so maybe these will benifit also

Not sure, will have a think, I dont really want to intertwine my own Cisco learning with their styles, I prefer to do that on my own.
 
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