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More CCNA and CCNP candidates than ever before are putting together their own home practice labs.  It’s more affordable than it ever has been, and I receive emails daily from new CCNAs and CCNPs who say it’s the best thing they could have done to improve their studies.

There are some commands you can configure on your lab routers that won’t necessarily be on your CCNA or CCNP exams, but they will make life a lot easier for you.  Let’s take a look at just a few of these.

The command “no exec” is short, yet powerful.  Occasionally you’ll have what is referred to as a “rogue EXEC” process tie up a line, and you end up having to continually clear lines, which disrupts your practice.  If you have an access server, I highly recommend you configure this command on your lines, as shown here:

ACCESS_SERVER(con)#line 1 8

ACCESS_SERVER(con)#no exec

From your CCNA studies, you know that the command “no ip domain-lookup” prevents a Cisco router from sending a broadcast to find a DNS server anytime you enter something that is not an IOS command – and that includes mistyped commands, which happens to all of us sooner or later.  Make sure to run that command in global configuration mode on all your practice routers.
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you sign up with one of these schools, you’ve made a significant investment in time and money.  You deserve to know everything about the school and your job prospects after leaving that school before you put down your hard-earned money.   The problem is, sometimes it’s hard to know the right questions to ask.

The point of this article is not to bash technical training schools.  That’s how I got my start in IT eight years ago, and today I’m a CCIE™ and own my own Cisco training company and my own consulting firm.

Before I ever put down the first dime, though, I asked some tough questions.  So should you.

What are my true job prospects and legitimate salary levels after I graduate from your school?

We’ve all heard the ads on the radio… “Did you know the average salary of an MCSE is $80,000?”  “Are you worth $65,000 a year?  If not, call us!”

I’m an optimist, and I often tell people that no field rewards individual achievement and drive like IT does.  Having said that, none of us start at the top, and darn few of us start at that kind of salary.

I’m sure that there are some people who broke in at $80,000, but I haven’t met very many of them.  Be very wary of technical schools that use the famous/infamous MCSE Salary Survey as a marketing tool.  They tend to represent those salaries as starting salaries.

Ask your technical school what the average starting salary of their graduates is.   And keep in mind that salary is not the most important factor to consider when looking for your first job in IT it’s the experience you’ll be able to put on your resume later on that you should weigh heavily at this point.

In short, be very careful about schools that brag about starting salaries.   It’s not where you start, it’s where you end up.

How up-to-date are the courses you’re offering?

Make sure the school you’re going to attend has made efforts to keep their courses relevant.  Ask what changes have been made to their curriculum in the last three years.  No field changes faster than IT.   If the answer to that question is “none”, look somewhere else.

I want to work in IT security.  Have you placed anyone in this field lately?  If so, can I talk to them?

Technical schools are jumping on the security bandwagon, with a couple of schools running ads about training you to work in Homeland Security.  If that’s your goal, that’s great, but keep in mind that you have to get a security clearance for any job like that.

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There’s quite an emphasis on security in today’s networks, and that’s reflected in Cisco’s certification tracks.  Cisco offers a CCIE Security track and the Cisco Certified Security Professional (CCSP) intermediate-level certification, but there is no real equivalent to the CCNA on the security side.  Instead, Cisco offers several different Security Associate certifications.

The good news is that you’ve got a lot of security specializations from which to choose; the bad news is that you’ve got a lot of choices!  In choosing a specialization, take some time to choose a certification that will be of practical use to you in your current position or in your “dream job”.

One of the more popular Security Associate certifications is the Cisco VPN Specialist certification.  This two-exam track consists of a Securing Cisco Network Devices (SND, 642-551) exam and a Cisco Secure Virtual Private Networks (CSVPN, 642-511) exam.  To earn the Cisco VPN Specialist exam, you must hold a valid CCNA certification.
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Congratulations on your decision to earn your CCNP certification!  As a CCIE, I can tell you that Cisco certifications are both financially and personally rewarding.

To earn your CCNP, you first have to earn your CCNA certification.  Then you’re faced with a decision – take the three-exam CCNP path, or the four-exam path?   They’re both quite demanding, so let’s take a look at each path.

The four-exam CCNP path includes the Building Scalable Cisco Internetworks exam (BSCI), Building Cisco Multilayer Switched Networks exam (BCMSN), Building Cisco Remote Access Networks (BCRAN), and Cisco Internetwork Troubleshooting (CIT) exam.

The three-exam path combines the BSCI and BCMSN exams into a single exam, called the Composite exam.

I’m often asked what order I recommend taking the exams in.  After earning your CCNA, I recommend you begin studying for the BSCI exam immediately.  You will find the fundamentals you learned in your CCNA studies will help you a great deal with this exam.  You’re going to add to your CCNA knowledgebase quite a bit when it comes to OSPF and EIGRP, as well as being introduced to BGP.

I don’t have a preference between the BCMSN and BCRAN exams, but I do recommend you take the CIT exam last.  You’ll be using all the skills you learned in the first three exams to pass the CIT. It’s a very demanding exam, and it’s a little hard to troubleshoot technologies that you haven’t learned yet!

The CCNP is both financially and personally fulfilling.  Once you complete your CCNA studies, take a little breather and then get started on your CCNP studies.  The more you know, the more valuable you are in today’s ever-changing IT job market.

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