New Cisco certs

Started by Dieselboy, January 16, 2020, 08:22:30 PM

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deanwebb

#30
February 27, 2020, 06:39:22 AM
Yeah, not a lot of love for renewing my CCNP-Security from this writer... :smug:
Take a baseball bat and trash all the routers, shout out "IT'S A NETWORK PROBLEM NOW, SUCKERS!" and then peel out of the parking lot in your Ferrari.
"The world could perish if people only worked on things that were easy to handle." -- Vladimir Savchenko
Вопросы есть? Вопросов нет! | BCEB: Belkin Certified Expert Baffler | "Plan B is Plan A with an element of panic." -- John Clarke
Accounting is architecture, remember that!
Air gaps are high-latency Internet connections.

config t

#31
March 01, 2020, 01:55:34 AM Last Edit: March 01, 2020, 02:00:32 AM by config t
Quote from: deanwebb on February 27, 2020, 06:39:22 AM
Yeah, not a lot of love for renewing my CCNP-Security from this writer... :smug:

With the free CCNP Sec training credits I'm getting the only useful specialization I can see doing is ISE, since my customer uses it.

Are we enemies now?  :XD:
:matrix:

Please don't mistake my experience for intelligence.

deanwebb

#32
March 01, 2020, 07:39:05 AM
Not if you deliver the "better together" marketing message. :D
Take a baseball bat and trash all the routers, shout out "IT'S A NETWORK PROBLEM NOW, SUCKERS!" and then peel out of the parking lot in your Ferrari.
"The world could perish if people only worked on things that were easy to handle." -- Vladimir Savchenko
Вопросы есть? Вопросов нет! | BCEB: Belkin Certified Expert Baffler | "Plan B is Plan A with an element of panic." -- John Clarke
Accounting is architecture, remember that!
Air gaps are high-latency Internet connections.

merxvell

#33
March 10, 2020, 12:19:11 PM
Goals for this year

  • Top priority is RHCSA as I use linux every day and want to continue
  • Get Cisco devnet as having a good mix of programing and networking sound like a good combo
  • Learn more about CISSP and see If i want to grab that cert
  • Learn more and decide between palo alto, juniper or extreme networking cert for the rest of the year
  • Buy a house
  • Switch jobs after wedding

Edit
Finish setting up the landing page for personal site.

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Dieselboy

#34
March 10, 2020, 10:26:10 PM
I use Linux every day. Currently I'm re-architecting an Openstack (train) deployment. I looked into the Linux+ exam and I got about a 3rd the way through the book and couldnt help keep falling asleep. It was dry as anything. It wasnt just a light sleep either, more like a coma. So I done the university module on Linux and didnt bother with the exam - it was just memorising commands according to the study guide.
Then a bit more recently I looked into the Microsoft Linux exams - that looks a bit better. You get access to a VM to complete the test and you can use the man pages for help. But I basically wing it with google and documentation so I dont have confidence on passing.

We're a Red Hat partner - whats the RHCSA exam like? Good luck with it also.

merxvell

#35
March 11, 2020, 07:41:15 AM
Quote from: Dieselboy on March 10, 2020, 10:26:10 PM
We're a Red Hat partner - whats the RHCSA exam like? Good luck with it also.

From what I understand you get a busted up VM and you have to fix it and answer questions. I've seen stuff like this but I've never taken it but plan to either by 4/11/2020 or the end of april...

https://www.unixmen.com/everything-know-rhcsa-certification/
https://blog.fpmurphy.com/2016/09/so-you-think-you-are-ready-for-the-rhcsa-exam.html

wintermute000

#36
March 11, 2020, 05:56:39 PM
RHCSA is very well regarded. Its also a real lab exam. People fail because they can't fix GRUB and can't finish the rest of the steps.
I did the linux academy course but because I'm not a sysadmin I don't need to memorise that much linux so I'd never pass without some hardcore CLI hours and memorisation that I don't think I'll get much value of. If the exam was twice as long and you could google I reckon I could pass it. I know enough to keep my homegrown ZFS/docker/KVM server running (that also serves as a multilayer router, yes NAT via iptables ugh) for example.

Dieselboy

#37
March 11, 2020, 08:45:30 PM
Thanks Merxvell

Wintermute that's my problem... If I have any problem with linux I start digging and looking for answers or pointers. Cant do that in exam, so tbh it's an unrealistic approach to testing ones skills. ;)

merxvell

#38
March 12, 2020, 08:14:06 AM
Quote from: wintermute000 on March 11, 2020, 05:56:39 PM
RHCSA is very well regarded. Its also a real lab exam. People fail because they can't fix GRUB and can't finish the rest of the steps.
I did the linux academy course but because I'm not a sysadmin I don't need to memorise that much linux so I'd never pass without some hardcore CLI hours and memorisation that I don't think I'll get much value of. If the exam was twice as long and you could google I reckon I could pass it. I know enough to keep my homegrown ZFS/docker/KVM server running (that also serves as a multilayer router, yes NAT via iptables ugh) for example.

I hate troubleshooting iptables. Thank god the config on the stuff at work is only 50 lines long.

Quote from: Dieselboy on March 11, 2020, 08:45:30 PM
Thanks Merxvell

Wintermute that's my problem... If I have any problem with linux I start digging and looking for answers or pointers. Cant do that in exam, so tbh it's an unrealistic approach to testing ones skills. ;)

Just wget a pdf from a self hosted server outside of the network with the answers.

In all seriousness are man pages allowed on the exam?

wintermute000

#39
March 13, 2020, 07:15:34 AM
Yes man pages no Google or external access
If you can't boot or fix bad selinux labels you can't even read the man pages ha
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