I have Cisco during the four years, working my way from the CCNA to the coveted title Cisco Certified Internetwork Expert, and over the years, there will be job interviews and casual conversations with hundreds of candidates CCNAs and CCNA.
The CCNA is an exciting beginning to your Cisco career, but only with the certification simply is not enough. A recruiter or researcher will be impressed not only with the certificate, you will have practical knowledge of the world to find.
I have it my way and sat on both sides of the job interview table CCNA. In this sense, let me give you some tips for a truly valuable CCNA and employability.
Get some practical experience. I know the trap which does not come with the experience to get a CCNA, and can not CCNA no real experience. Well, not really possible, but do you want? Working Simulators are good to some extent, but it does the classic mistake of counting them. I have seen many CCNAs sitting in front of a group of routers and I do not know exactly what to do or how they had set a simple setting and do not know how to begin troubleshooting.
There are classes for the CCNA, offering you the opportunity to work with industry experts on real equipment of Cisco. In addition, you can use in putting together your own CCNA rack for less than $ 1,000 through the purchase of routers. Some people think that a lot of money, but is the foundation of your career. The deal that way. Your work is now the most important work never. It must be the equipment of Cisco. The skills I learned as a CCNA helped me all the way to the CCIE.
Also, (after you have your CCNA, then we hope you choose to continue the CCNP), you can always part of the material sold your money. The experience thus gained is invaluable.
They know binary math. Do not go the easy route of memorizing a subnet mask table for the exam CCNA. I know that some people boast of being able to pass the CCNA exam is not really understanding binary math. I have people on the other side of the table interview shows, and not laugh when I ask them to do a subnetting question. We laugh when you can not explain, or create a system VLSM. The table does not do anything to help you understand what’s happening.
If you can add and know the difference between one and zero, you can binary mathematics. Do not be intimidated by his name.
For a true CCNA – binary math!
Run show and debug commands. No commands help you truly understand how things work in a Cisco network than show and debug commands. As part of the certification Cisco, we are happy to start them on the level of CCNA.
Do you need to know these commands for the exam? Probably not. Should successul in the real world? Absolutely.
Monitoring the Cisco certification was important to me, and it may help in your career, and if you stop the CCNA, CCNP, or go to the end of the CCIE. Is to develop your skills now that you’re actually a network engineer. Do not take shortcuts or get the attitude of just passing the test.
This is what you achieve after the exam that counts, and this is the calendar of work before the trials that these services makes this possible.