This week saw the second part of the CCNA training – four very packed days. I now need to arrange to take the exam to qualify for the certification. My plan is to do so within a few weeks, if possible: soon enough for all of the unfamiliar (and not routinely exercised as part of my job) topics to still be fresh, but enough time to prepare.<\/p>\n
The whole course covered a wide range of topics: ICND1, the ‘easier’ first half explored some fairly familiar aspects of networking in general, going into not much detail on a wide range of topics (switching, routing, Ethernet, wireless). It also covered IPv4 addressing in a lot of detail, an area in which I am pretty familiar.<\/p>\n
ICND2, the second half, went into more detail on a smaller subset of topics: spanning tree, various routing protocols, VLANs, NAT, IPv6, PPP, Frame Relay etc.<\/p>\n
A most enjoyable learning experience, since the instructor was entertaining as well as informative. There were eight of us attending the course and we get on pretty well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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