CCNA or CCNP???

[black_charlie]

Hi,

I'm looking for advice. I recently completed my MCSA course at CTU Training Solutions. I have two options for 2018. I can continue studying CISCO at them doing my CCNA and CCNP at them and then my second option is just to start of by doing my CCNA Part-Time and save a shitload of money by not doing CCNP. Basically my question is do I need CCNP at this point of my career? I know many Junior Network Engineers/ Technicians only require CCNA. Any advice for me?

Regards,
Kalin

P.S Sorry this isn't job related.

 

[Roobir]

Hi Kalin,

Out of personal experience, I completed a few of Cisco related courses (during university) including CCNA, CCNA Security, and CCNP.

I believe that my degree and cisco courses got my foot into the door to get the position. However, I had to begin where everyone else had to begin (who might not have the same degree or certifications).

I believe it might work out better if you can land a position now and complete CCNA (hopefully CCNP too) part-time. This will incorporate career experience along with the certification behind your name. Additionally, the working exposure can also change your perspective of what you want to study and certify (for example moving over to security or network designs)?

(This is assumed that you are considering between getting a position vs full-time study)

Hope this helps!

 

[black_charlie]

Hi Kalin,

Out of personal experience, I completed a few of Cisco related courses (during university) including CCNA, CCNA Security, and CCNP.

I believe that my degree and cisco courses got my foot into the door to get the position. However, I had to begin where everyone else had to begin (who might not have the same degree or certifications).

I believe it might work out better if you can land a position now and complete CCNA (hopefully CCNP too) part-time. This will incorporate career experience along with the certification behind your name. Additionally, the working exposure can also change your perspective of what you want to study and certify (for example moving over to security or network designs)?

(This is assumed that you are considering between getting a position vs full-time study)

Hope this helps!

Hi.

Yes. Doing Part-Time and getting work experience. The long term goal is to get CCNP certified. Thanks for the information, Appreciate the help.

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[R3aL1Ty]

Okay so as a guy working in Networking, i recently passed my CCNA but have a years experience in networking...

PLEASE DO NOT DO FULL TIME CCNP , because you realize how little you can do skill wise , working and studying up as you gain experience really will benefit you a huge amount.

There are far to many CCNP engineers around that actually have no idea what they doing.

 

[Jaquesdp08]

Im also CCNA and CCNP certified , issue is doing CCIE damn its expensive

 

[Shmitty]

Hi,

Just adding to what others have said, do your CCNA (assuming its R&S) part time whilst you have a junior network admin role.

When you’re able to piece everything together / feel you need to start moving up, then start with your CCNP studies and use it as leverage to work up to the next step in the corporate ladder.

I made the mistake of studying both CCNA & CCNP (R&S) during my first year of internship and unfortunately I couldn’t get on the job experience from what I learnt in the CCNP track which really put me in a stressful “sink or swim” situation at my next job.

I hope this somewhat helps and goodluck with your studies..

 

[souljazk]

Certs are nice , many co's will look at them, it shows a certain level of minimum knowledge, but most co's will be far more interested in what you can do in terms of realworld setups / troublehsooting. Install and brushup on knowledge+implementation troubleshooting & speed @ home using labs. Play around, HAVE FUN. Setup VPN's between you & a mate, play with VLANs', DMZ's, get trial's for firewall's, use VMware, etc. Get scripting aswell... Learn other basics like 365, Outlook troubleshooting etc as with your 1st job, you'll prob be having to help end users with all that silly shit.

If your folks are paying / you don't need to get a job right now to service debt/interest, then continue studying. Also make a career roadmap with some options. IE Doing CCIE in a while, that opens many doors. Also look at companies who foster great culture, staff retention etc. A company where you feel valued, heard and looked after will help you give your all and in return become a valuable asset to the company.

Also, dont do the generic CV thing, google "2017 CV tips" and use some of those. Remember this is the 1st impression, so spend time polishing that CV up. Also do a linked in using the CV data.

 

[black_charlie]

Hi.

Thanks for all of the advice!

Greatly appreciated!

Regards,
Kalin

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