Certification Goals for 2017... What Are Yours?

[that1guy15]

Damn it...

Just got the Cisco email I have 6 months to recert my CCIE. I seriously dont want to do this right now...

[SimonV]

Damn, time flies. Seems like you just got it

[deanwebb]

I took and failed the CCDA in 2014, and it was the Cisco vendor-ese questions that got me. If you know how to consult THE CISCO WAY!!! then you should be fine. If not, make yourself familiar with all the marketing stuff and methodology stuff in the OCG that there are maybe 2 sample questions on in the test bank.

And it's already March... I need to book the exam I'm ready for and get trained up for the one I want to do. I'm going with ForeScout certifications because that's an area I'm quite skilled in right now and I'd like to formalize that knowledge with some shiny certificates.

[icecream-guy]

well since 2016 is waning, I'll start the new thread.

probably going to go for that CISSP next.
maybe look into the AWS Solutions Architect
or maybe one of those Python Certs,

my eye are big again.... looking for that next fix...

here it is March already and I've done zip, zilch, nada, nothing.

well next to nothing,  I did load a debian VM and wrote my first python script

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'Hello World'


[NetworkGroover]

well since 2016 is waning, I'll start the new thread.

probably going to go for that CISSP next.
maybe look into the AWS Solutions Architect
or maybe one of those Python Certs,

my eye are big again.... looking for that next fix...

here it is March already and I've done zip, zilch, nada, nothing.

well next to nothing,  I did load a debian VM and wrote my first python script

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'Hello World'


Hahaha - sounds like me buddy.  Here's to slackers! 

[NetworkGroover]

Damn, time flies. Seems like you just got it

Yeah no kidding!  I forget - is it 3 years or 1.5?

[that1guy15]

Damn, time flies. Seems like you just got it

Yeah no kidding!  I forget - is it 3 years or 1.5?

every 2 years. But really 3. After 24 months you go into "suspended status" for 12 months. After that you fully lose your CCIE and have to start over.

Suspended status means you can't represent yourself officially as a CCIE with partners or use the logos and such.

[icecream-guy]

Damn, time flies. Seems like you just got it

Yeah no kidding!  I forget - is it 3 years or 1.5?

every 2 years. But really 3. After 24 months you go into "suspended status" for 12 months. After that you fully lose your CCIE and have to start over.

Suspended status means you can't represent yourself officially as a CCIE with partners or use the logos and such.

That's _a lot_ of work for only two years,   seems like ya gotta go back in it to recert after only a few weeks.

[NetworkGroover]

Ugh... the knowledge is valuable no doubt.. but man.. screw that.  I'm doing just fine with my expired CCNP - at least until I lose this job ;P

[that1guy15]

Its only the written you have to recert with. You dont ever have to take the lab again unless your CCIE fully expires.

[deanwebb]

And then you are "CCIE Written, But Expire".

[wintermute000]

After i knock over my re-cert, thinking of either something AWS (feels dirty....) or the OCSA/OCSE (next-to-no-recognition exams, interesting material)....  or in all likeliness actually put up and shut up with the RHCSA / RHCE path.

I reckon I can knock over a RHCSA in a month or less, I know enough linux to be dangerous (e.g. run a VPS, host a domain, build out a LAMP stack, basic chef, semi-competent ansible, basic docker, apt-get/yum/pip everything I need for my python environments, persisted with desktop linux for a year back in the Fedora 3 / Athlon 64 days when it was waaay more brutal than n00buntu 14 look ma all my drivers work etc).

I'm just not particularly interested in some of the detailed nuts and bolts, filesystem operations or specific apps (how to configure SQL, apache, etc. as its all extremely non-core to our roles but I figure linux knowledge is always going to be handy.

If there was a good cert that specialised in modern DC leaf/spine trends (various underlay routing topologies, VXLAN/EVPN overlay designs and the interaction between underlay/overlay, DCI topologies) then I"d be all over it but there really isn't esp. as Cisco hasn't refreshed the CCNP-DC syllabus yet nor produced something sane (i.e. minus the UCS and fibre channel stuff, seriously why the f--k didn't they have a CCNP-DC-compute and CCNP-DC-fabric etc.... I've only met possibly two engineers in this world who actually knew UCS well AND networking well, even CCIE-DCs I meet know one or the other IRL and have forgotten the other half as soon as they walk out of the lab)


And before you Arista guys are in there, I don't have enough prod Arista XP, though I do have plenty of hours in vEOS and have read arista warrior if that counts   That sample question in your website that asked for the colours of the handles (no joke... )really put my entire team off doing the ACE, even the guys who are literally on Arista projects!

[deanwebb]

You're spot on in noting that Linux is quite handy, especially in troubleshooting the underside of just about any specialized system, such as the syslog product, the firewall management product, the DDI product, etc. They all run on top of Linux. Something goes boom on one of them, you'll be needing to do tail -f and ls and df -h and pwd and grep, grep, grep, and more grep!

It's not hard to do, and I'll be happy to be in a Linux study group to help out there.

[SimonV]

Just ordered the CCDA book. I will be in hotels the whole month so might as well read a bit (when I'm sober at least)

[wintermute000]

took a squiz at the RHCSA/RHCE syallabus. Auto mounting shares for LDAP users, partitioning etc.... no thanks

on a note that y'all would enjoy, pushed my CCDE written back to May, seriously CBF right now to do any more reading.

on a non-cert side, I have now read 80% of the Viptela documentation cover to cover (who cares about WAN multicast.... /s)... that stuff is the next frontier. Too bad all SD-WAN stuff is proprietary but I am seriously loving this particular flavour.