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Anyone else feel a little lost in their career?  I can't complain, I make enough to send 3 kids to private school and I run the network at my current job.  I make more than my last job and have more "say" so to speak, but it is a pretty small organization.  Less than 2k users.  Somehow I am just not feeling challenged despite only being here for a couple of months, I feel like I'm already over qualified.  That said, I can't stand the idea of moving to our working in a big city like Seattle...  What do you do?

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I finished my CCNP R&S back in January, so I've got a pretty good start.  My fall semester includes CCDA and ITIL foundations. 

That said I started a new job in April.  Having never touched a juniper device in my life, I am in charge of a refresh replacing all of our branch office with juniper equipment.  Architecting a data center move and bringing this Network  inline with best business practices.  So am just hoping I can keep up with this pace.

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I've never been good at it.  That said, I have the hour long commute with a stop in the middle to pick up the two older kids.  Talking about their day at school or homework does it for me. 

My problem is when I start studying after the kids go to bed, everything comes flooding back sometimes.  I've taken to drinking a glencairn of whiskey when that happens.  Otherwise I ended up labbing out work problems until way to late.  30 minutes or an hour of trying to pull flavors out of good whiskey works wonders for me.

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I never use OSPF for work, so it is not my strongest subject.  But Type-4 is for routers that are redistributing into OSPF from another protocol, right?  So even if a router isn't running a second protocol like RIP or EIGRP, what about a router redistributing static or connected routes?  It is the redistribute command that signals the OSPF process to start sending out Type-4 LSA's, right?  So could one of the routers have been redistributing static and/or connected?

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Yes it will create a Type 4 LSA. What I am saying is, it there was NO summary ASB in the ospf database. Yet it was asking for a type 4 lsa

Well I'm fresh out of ideas. 

Could it have been one of those weird minutia type questions where they ask for X but you are supposed to know it was converted to Y during process Z?  I've noticed they have a way of asking round about/purposely misleading questions that require a lot of rereading to decipher what they are really asking LOL.

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Not to mention the errors in the exam, like taking asking a generic question about a Type 4 LSA when there is no Type 4 LSA and they mean Type 3 LSA because there is no ASBR.

Wait, what? LSA goes all the way to 11. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Link-state_advertisement

Or did you mean no Type 4 in the problem?

No... there was no Type 4 LSA, they meant a Type 3 Summary LSA. This was an ABR, and there was no ASBR for the ABR to generate the message to the other areas.

I never use OSPF for work, so it is not my strongest subject.  But Type-4 is for routers that are redistributing into OSPF from another protocol, right?  So even if a router isn't running a second protocol like RIP or EIGRP, what about a router redistributing static or connected routes?  It is the redistribute command that signals the OSPF process to start sending out Type-4 LSA's, right?  So could one of the routers have been redistributing static and/or connected?

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Barely.  Note to self, don't take Cisco exams without studying.  Or at least knowing the test format...

But what the hay, a pass is a pass and it should be official soon.  And as soon as I got to work I found out the timeline to finish my CCNP was extended until October, so there was no reason for me to rush into this exam after all.

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I would recommend doing the 2 test route for the CCNA.  I believe it still ends up costing the same, and I feel it lets you absorb the fundamentals better.  I would recommend skipping the Comptia certs.  I've heard the quality has improved but they are not generally well regarded outside of DoD.

I was impressed with the quality of the cisco press ICND1 book by Wendell Odom, but I'm not sure if he did the current ICND1 book.

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Had an incident today in which I asked, "What are some problems that could arise from having a remote site deciding to use an IP address range without coordinating with the central IP management team?" and the interviewee started to try to look up the answer. I could hear the mouse clicks and pages turning all through the awkward silence. The interviewee had no answer, in spite of his CCNA and CCNP-Switch certs listed on his resume.

I expect an interviewee to know the answer to the above question without feeling a need to look up the answer. What are some other questions that entry-level people should know the answers to, without hesitation?

I listen to data center interviews a lot because our data center guy is on their hiring team.  The number of people I hear miss the questions "what does DNS do" and "what does DHCP do" is staggering.  At least 50% miss one or both...

Access vs Trunk port makes a good question.  They should be able to explain dot1q tags, but a lot can't.

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They really need too cut that crap out. How can different teams write the  tests and the books

That bit me in the rear end a few years ago.  I bought a set of 640 series books for ICND1 and ICND2 and they changed to the 200 series before I felt comfortable enough to sit the 640 series ICND2 test.  I ended up buying the new ICND1 and ICND2 books to cover the curriculum change even though I already had the CCENT.  You would think I had learned my lesson, but I just ordered the CCDA and CCDP books and signed up for college...  I guess I am just a slow learner.

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The 3560's as mentioned earlier will work.  My day-to-day job includes most of the material in the SWITCH test, so I didn't do much studying honestly.  For me that is the easiest Cisco test I've taken to date.  I think most, if not all, would be doable on 3560's.

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I'm a government contractor, but I will be working.  I'm all the way on the left coast though, so the only traffic for us will be caused by protesters.

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Under the new contract we will all work under the same contract/vendor.  And what will be our site lead is as fed up with them as I am.

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I've had similar issues with our printer LCR's, only our guys were tripping the DHCP snooping database instead of port-security.

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You are making an assumptions that they want to learn, or care about the customers.  That is a bad assumption. 

I quit trying to teach/help them because the only thing it got me was them farming more of their work to me.  Under our current contract they no longer have a local manager and have quit doing a large majority of their duties.  They have completely stopped providing ANY desk side support or troubleshooting.  All​ they do now is re-image peoples drives, and if that doesn't fix it they blame it on the network or the servers.

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What devices are you running at the access layer?  Do they have the processing power to support multiple routed interfaces + the routing protocol,  or will they get bogged down under the load?

I guess that doesn't truly answer your question.   But if I was running something like large stacks of 3750's at the access layer with multiple stacks behind on L2, I'd be tempted to run port-channels.  If my access layer was a 4500 series chassis switch with nothing behind it, I would be more likely to run multiple routed links.

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