{"id":298,"date":"2007-10-08T20:29:43","date_gmt":"2007-10-08T19:29:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sungate.co.uk\/?p=298"},"modified":"2007-10-08T20:29:43","modified_gmt":"2007-10-08T19:29:43","slug":"studying-for-a-ccna","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sungate.co.uk\/?p=298","title":{"rendered":"Studying for a CCNA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been thinking for a while about studying for a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cisco.com\/web\/learning\/le3\/le2\/le0\/le9\/learning_certification_type_home.html\">CCNA<\/a>.  It&#8217;s slightly tangential to my normal work and also to my hobby-time computing, but I think that&#8217;s part of the appeal.  I feel that the more fundamental aspects of computer networking are things that I <em>should<\/em> know about.<\/p>\n<p>I now have the study books and a large of amount of the material is quite familiar (IP networking, routing, subnetting etc.) but much of it is completely new.  I&#8217;ll read the books and, assuming I&#8217;m confident and ambitious enough, I&#8217;ll apply to take the exams.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been thinking for a while about studying for a CCNA. It&#8217;s slightly tangential to my normal work and also to my hobby-time computing, but I think that&#8217;s part of the appeal. I feel that the more fundamental aspects of computer networking are things that I should know about. I now have the study books&#8230;&nbsp;(<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sungate.co.uk\/?p=298\">read more<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-298","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sungate.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sungate.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sungate.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sungate.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sungate.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=298"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.sungate.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sungate.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sungate.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sungate.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}