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How hard is the exam?
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You know, all those kinds of things.
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Let me just kind of put together a packed
question and answer on Cisco Certification.
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I'm going to look at CCNA 2013.
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This is the third time I've rerecorded
CCNA since I've been with CBT Nuggets.
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Because Cisco is always adding more,
changing it, updating the technology,
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so we'll look at what's new there.
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I want to talk about how
we change at CBT Nuggets.
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You're probably like, 'Dude!
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You've had too much coffee or something!
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Settle down!"
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Actually I haven't had any coffee this morning.
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It's all CCNA adrenaline buddy!
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CBT Nuggets just has a completely
different way of training,
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which sometimes takes a little getting used to.
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Most of the time people are just like, "Woohoo!
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Enjoy the ride."
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And then finally, I want to talk about
how you can get the most from this series.
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How can you take this, apply this straight
to your job, straight to the certification,
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and walk away with the most you
can possibly get from this series.
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So let's dive right in to Cisco's
certification and all its glory.
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First off, who is this company, Cisco?
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Well, Cisco is the inventor of the router
many moons ago, which strung board them
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into getting their network equipment into
just about every internet service provider,
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every business, even a lot of homes all around
the world have some form of Cisco technology.
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I mean, their technology spans [pause]
product line after product line.
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VoiceOver IP, security appliances,
routers, switches.
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There is so much that they create that
I can't even put it in a nutshell.
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There's just a lot.
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I think of them as like the
Microsoft of networking technology.
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Now, Cisco certification is immensely valuable
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because not only are they the market
leader, but everybody's following Cisco.
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I mean Cisco's real claim to fame.
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If you really want to know the secret
sauce of Cisco, it's all called IOS.
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Internet Work Operating System.
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It's their software that runs their products.
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It's not even the hardware, the boxes
themselves, it's the software that runs it.
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It's kind of the de facto standard
and everybody kind of follows that.
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I mean if you've ever seen, obviously
you've seen Microsoft Windows,
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well if you look at the latest
renditions of Linux,
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they're starting to gain a little traction
because they've made themselves look enough
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like Windows that people
are starting to accept them.
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And a lot of other network vendors out
there are like, "Man, well if we're going
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to play this game, we've got to make our
operating system, our way of interfacing
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with our devices, enough like Cisco so somebody
would be willing to take the jump and not have
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to relearn everything that
they've learned at Cisco."
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So, knowing Cisco is just a huge benefit.
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Also, employers are looking for
this because Cisco incentifies them.
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Is that a word?
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I just made it up.
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They have incentive to hire you.
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Cisco says, "You know what?
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If you hire certified people and certified
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which is actually what this series lines up to.
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It's kind of the foundation of
every Cisco certification out there.
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[Laughing] Yeah.
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It's important.
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Then as you move on, for instance,
the CCNP currently has three exams.
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So you have to pass three individual exams
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and now you're a Cisco certified network
professional in routing and switching.
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You can see all of these
different tracks that are there.
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So, as you pass these exams
you gain certifications
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and you can use their credentials, get their
logos on your business cards and all that.
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These exams all last three years.
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Now that immediately raises
some red flags for people.
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They're going, "What do you mean?
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Two years later, you pass ICND2.
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ICND2. So, ICND1 gives you the CCND.
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ICND2 with ICND1 gives you a
CCNA routing and switching.
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Well what happens when you pass that exam,
is now you've got a CCENT that's renewed
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for three years, you have a CCNA that lasts
for three years, and you're now, you know,
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ready [laughing] I had my emphasis like there
was some grand conclusion, well that was it!
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Now you've got a CCENT and a CCNA
that both last for three years.
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Okay, so let's go further.
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Let's say two years later, just as
an example, you take the first exam
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of the CCNP routing and switching.
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You take one exam here.
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Well, once you do that and you pass that exam,
it automatically renews your CCNA routing
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and switching and your CCENT
for three additional years.
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Now it's not cumulative like if you [audible].
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No, you just got a fresh three years on that.
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And as you pass the second exam, you get
a fresh three years on the previous exam.
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See what I mean?
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So it's not hard.
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It's not one of those things where,
man, let me just give you an example.
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I've been in Cisco long enough that
I have all of these certifications.
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I have achieved them all, not these two, but
if I had to keep every single one of them
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up to date, that's all I would do,
that would be career is testing.
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Because there's so many exams
that I would have to take.
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Well instead, what I do is,
every two years, the CCIE routing
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and switching was just a different
animal altogether, lasts for two years.
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Every two years I take the
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If you didn't know, these cost money.
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You can't just, you know [laughing],
take these exams on a whim.
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I went to the view website.
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Actually right over here.
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And checked the exams.
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And they are currently, these prices change.
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Not often, but, you know
[laughing], I laughed I was like,
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"Today's price," like tomorrow's different.
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But these exams, they do change here and there.
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So for the individual exams.
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So ICND1 right there.
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ICND2 right there.
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They're $150.00 each.
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The all-in-one exam is $295.00.
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Take the two exams.
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It's just, I mean, if you've
ever missed an exam before.
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If you've taken these before and you
miss it, it's just so, like, ugh.
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Especially when you're like,
"Oh man, I just lost 300 bucks."
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I mean, that's painful.
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As well as knowing the fact that you didn't get
it and you have to go back again to take it.
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So I always tell people,
take the two-exam route.
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Why? Time.
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It's the same questions.
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CCNAX is the same questions that
you're going to get on ICND1 and ICND2.
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However, it's just, I've
taken all three of these
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and it's just CCNAX is more time constrained.
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You gotta not only know your stuff,
you got to be quick at doing it.
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So, if you're going this route.
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I mean you also get the feeling of like, "Yeah!
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I accomplished a milestone."
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Where CCNAX is like, man,
it's like a sledgehammer.
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You either score big or, you
know, it's like gambling, right?
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You either score big or you lose big.
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So, can I retake these exams?
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Another question.
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If I fail it, can I retake it?
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Yes you can.
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They will have a waiting period.
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It's like a couple weeks before
you can schedule the exam again,
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but you can take them as much as you want.
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Obviously, at $150.00 or $300.00 a pop, you're
not going to want to retake them that often,
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but you can take them again
and again and again and again.
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Now I know there may be more questions on
certification, but I'm hoping to answer those
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as I can go and I've also made some more nuggets
I'll tell you about at the end of the series
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to help in your certification prep.
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So, CCNA 2013.
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What is new?
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What has changed in this environment?
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Well, this has been the first
major revision of CCNA since 2007.
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I looked back and said, "Okay.
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What was new in 2007?"
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2007 was where they first split
the CCNA into two separate exams.
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To where originally there
was only one CCNA exam.
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Then they decided to say, "Okay, well
let's create this CCENT and CCNA."
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and more popular worldwide to
address the IP address shortage
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and really open the door for
innovation in the future.
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It's going to be creepy scary of how much
stuff is going to be connected in the world
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as IP addresses no longer become an issue.
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So IPv6 is being added and now Cisco,
you know, is kind of like, "Well,
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they've added all this stuff,
what have they taken out?"
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Well, they got rid of a lot
of taste testing technology.
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That's what I call it.
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It's where instead of, in previous
editions of ICND1, Cisco would say, "Well,
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we're going to test you on kind
of the foundations of Wi-Fi,
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Wireless Network Technology," because,
you know, Wi-Fi is a big topic.
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So they put enough in there to where you kind
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That's not good."
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Well, security [pause] is a huge topic.
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I mean, you saw in the certification you
had the CCNP Security, CCNA Security.
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It's a huge topic and it really, you're going
to learn that there is some security in here,
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but there's just a lot of
fluff stuff on security.
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It's the best way I can say it and ICND1
previously, that was kind of like, okay,
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they give you a knowledge of security, but
not really enough to do anything with it.
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So they said, "Let's get rid of all
these taste testing topics to make room."
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Now, that being said, did they remove enough
to justify all the stuff that they added?
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No they did not.
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Cisco removed a massive amount of, or I should
say, added a massive amount of stuff to ICND1.
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Honestly, as they released ICND1 the
barrier to entry in this technology,
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I think, moved significantly higher.
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If you think about it, Cisco is
now teaching their curriculum,
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their technology, even in high school classes.
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To where kids going into high school
are able to learn Cisco technology
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and Cisco is just saying, "You know what?
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We're now expecting that people are going
to have a fairly good technology feel
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because we live in a technology world."
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And, and couple that with Cisco did
some studies and said, "You know what?
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We're finding a lot of people getting
their CCENT or their CCNA and stopping."
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Like they're not going any further.
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So, they said previously, "Well, you know,
it gives them enough to be dangerous."
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They're kind of like, "Oh, you know what?
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No more." If you want to claim to be a
CCNA and stop there, you're going to know,
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you're going to know a whole of stuff.
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You're going to really have, not just getting
your feet wet, but a master of technology.
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So, as you look at these two combined, ICND2
became a huge amount of troubleshooting.
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Now, you might say, "Well why
introduce a lot of troubleshooting?"
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Troubleshooting shows a mastery of the topic.
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When you're thinking about levels of knowledge,
you kind of start off, okay I know nothing.
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Then maybe you start learning about
something and you get to the point
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where you're like, "Okay, I can explain that."
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Right? To where I know the concept, like I
know what NAT is, I'm translating IP addresses
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and all that, so I can explain that to somebody.
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But to go beyond that you say, "Okay,
well now I can configure something."
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So if I have a clean router and
it's no other configuration,
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I can configure network address
translation, right?
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So that's kind of like a
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A lot more on spanning tree protocol, which
is a loop prevention mechanism in networks.
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A lot more on EtherChannel, which never
even made it into the CCNA before.
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I've actually seen a lot of topics that were
previously CCNP level topics migrate their way
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down into the ICND2 now or
the CCNA certification.
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Really right here.
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EIGRP in a lot more depth because OSPF
used to be only an ICND2 topic before.
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Now it's covered, at its base level,
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in ICND1 and now at ICND2 they're
like, "Man, we're going all out."
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You're getting multi-area OSPF.
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Previously only covered in the CCNP.
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You're getting OSPF version 3,
which is OSPF for the IPv6 protocol,
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previously barely even covered
in the CCNP because it was like,
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"Oh well, IPv6 is still a long way out."
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Not anymore.
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It's here.
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So more routing.
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More management.
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This was a topic that wasn't
even in the CCNP before.
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Oh. To where, now, I need to know
how do I monitor my Cisco routers?
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That's SNMP.
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How do I make sure that they're up and running?
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How do I make sure that the
bandwidth levels and processer usage
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and memory's not being exhausted and all that?
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That's a huge amount of what is part of
a day-to-day Cisco administrators job.
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Never was even touched previously
in the certification program.
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Assist logs.
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Sending messages to a server that notify
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Last thing is, I said more scandal prevention.
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Meaning IOS 15 is now the new standard
version of IOS that everything's running on.
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Cisco introduced a massive
new licensing model in IOS 15.
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And so they want you to know about it.
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Because that's a big part of what you do.
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So the last two things and then we'll wrap up.
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How do we train at CBT Nuggets and how
do you get the most from this series?
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Well, how do we train you?
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You've been experiencing it.
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You know a lot of white board discussions.
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You'll see a lot of network diagrams.
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A lot of times they'll be prebuilt.
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Sometimes they'll go, "Oh ok, we got a
router here connected to the internet
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and it's protecting an internal e-mail
server from attacks from the outside.
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You got to block port 25, you
know, and lock that down."
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So, we'll go through a lot
of things like on the fly.
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You'll see a lot of, you
know, key facts presented.
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A lot of live demonstrations where
we're doing the real configuration
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of Cisco devices right in front of you.
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And I will say, let me partner that with
this down here, there's no script for this.
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You know, you can tell I'm not reading anything.
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So a lot of times the demonstrations as I'm
going through will get to a point where like,
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"Well, didn't expect that to happen,"
which is great because we get to go
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and troubleshoot it together and you get to
learn a lot from my own mistakes and we figure
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out the solution together and
go, "Oh, well that's how it is."
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And I think that a lot of
times it's even more valuable
420
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So, that's a lot of my goals is,
of course to convey the knowledge,
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but also to show you just how neat this is to
be able to set up and build a worldwide network.
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Okay, lastly, how do you get
the most from this series?
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Number one, repeat, repeat, repeat.
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The beauty is you have it there.
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It's recorded.
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You can go through it many times.
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I mean maybe the first time
you just kick back and watch.
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Second time you start jotting down
some questions and some thoughts.
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Doing a little web research on it.
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Third time you start trying
it on your own equipment.
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I mean go through it as many times
as you need to where you feel
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like you are getting a mastery of that topic.
460
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Thirdly, I'm not going to spend too much time on
these two topics because if you look at the end
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of the series, I've actually created
complete nuggets just on building a lab,
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like what to buy, how much it's going to
cost, what to use to study and all that.
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And study tactics.
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To where I say, "Well, here's the best way that
you can study for these certification exams."
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But they are valid things.
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How to get the most is to build a lab,
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and I'm talking real equipment,
not simulations or emulations.
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At this level, ICND1, I would really
suggest having some real gear that you setup
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in your house, in your job, in your
workplace, that you can work with
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and configure in a real environment.
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There's just something to having real equipment
and non-simulation and nowadays, you know,
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the equipment has come down hugely in
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You're really going to enjoy this series and
I hope when you reach the end you're going
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to be like, "Man, I just can't wait for more!"
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And get into the ICND2, get
your CCNA certification.
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I mean there's a lot of opportunity
in the future with this technology.
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I hope this has been informative for you
and I would like to thank you for viewing.