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It helps that they have an entire educational line of courses to build up the specific skills. I took the CCNA classes (and tutored for them at a local communit
by crazypyro 12y ago
It helps that they have an entire educational line of courses to build up the specific skills. I took the CCNA classes (and tutored for them at a local community college) in high school and while they do go over basic topics like 7 layer model, its highly Cisco hardware specific and it helps to have funnels like that into your support operations. It is similar to how Microsoft was (still is?) in the operating systems industry.
- chris_wot 12y agoThat's sad. I did my CCNA about a decade ago now, and it was top notch and although it covered Cisco gear, it was mostly about the underlying network concepts.
- crazypyro 12y agoIt still covers those topics, it just uses specific implementation examples to help you understand it. It is all still applicable to other hardware, but the entire field (that is in the scope of an entry level cert, at least) is pretty reliant on knowing the OS and scripting language of the hardware. I don't know how you could say it is mostly about underlying network concepts when over half the test is implementation specific Cisco questions. Maybe the changed it?
- chris_wot 12y agoThat was sort of my point.