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[King_sorrow]

got my pdf's for the ccnp route and switch

Gonna try to get through both before the end of the year then knock out TSHOOT last as i've read its super easy.

 

[King Erauno]

Going for my net+ ccna heard the min was 44k and somebody from a previous class got 70

dont worry about the net+ if youre going for the ccna. its a waste of time

 

[Bcotton5]

got my pdf's for the ccnp route and switch

Gonna try to get through both before the end of the year then knock out TSHOOT last as i've read its super easy.

think you can pm me them? I know I wont need it for a while but it would be good to have

 

[Thereal_ba]

got my pdf's for the ccnp route and switch

Gonna try to get through both before the end of the year then knock out TSHOOT last as i've read its super easy.

think you can pm me them? I know I wont need it for a while but it would be good to have

Can I get a copy as well.

 

[dnyce215]

I'm still trying to get a help desk gig

 

[leftcoastkev]

i just got my palo alto certification - PCNSE6 - Palo Alto certified network security engineer. it was easy and its the equivalent of a CCNP in security (which i already have)

Palo alto is the future in security.

whats makes it superior?

I wouldn't call PA superior overall, but their management platform is better than Cisco. And well so are centralized management platforms for Juniper SRX and Checkpoint (better than Cisco). Performance wise, Cisco is better. Damn near all of them are Linux boxes on the backend with different chipsets and asics (other than Checkooint variations e.g. Nokia).

Other than that, Palo Alto networks is a player staying in their lane. It's a relatively small company with a couple of buildings. They moved into Yahoos old buildings 2 years back. Their major selling point is that they are focused on firewalls. So it's a laser focus for the entire company vs. companies with business units that do firewall products. This focus puts them ahead in their lane like Riverbed cut into and took over the WAN Optimization market so Cisco is (feature depth-wise) playing catch up in both of those lanes. PA along with Checkpoint lead the way for next gen firewall products mainly because their mgmt platforms are so scalable vs Cisco who's major advantage has been performance and but weak point is enterprise management. But Cisco did buy Source Fire which is going to add to their depth to make their firewalls "next gen firewalls" like Checkpoint and PA. The drawback and irony of it all is that "next gen" features (ips, scanning, automated response to VMs, etc) take so much fine tuning, impede performance, and throw so many false positives (sec threat alerts) that people end up turning most of that shit off. As long as they have a cluster of firewalls performing well, a bank of web caches, load balancers, and some inline sec scanning tools most businesses are happy.

PA is partnering with other players like A10 to bring integrated solutions so there are some emerging things coming down the pipe. Depending on what's needed I guess it could be superior......for a particular customer.

Also, deployment wise (depth of integrated sec features aside) PA isn't doing anything any of the other companies aren't. The way their firewalls work are pretty much the same as everyone else's...clusters, failover pairs, blah blah. Cisco clustering is currently more scalable than PAs though (but they function damn near identical as far as how they handle network traffic).

To wrap it all up......know them all and how what fits where....and you can sell any of them to get that bread.

 

[King_sorrow]

Going to drop the PDFs after work

 

[Bcotton5]

Going to drop the PDFs after work

Thanks

 

[caddo man]

9tut.net I am studying for my CCENT/CCNA now.

 

[King_sorrow]

Links to my small collection of cert books on dropbox

It has CCNA sec+ and ceh and ccnp books
https://www.dropbox.com/sh/j1g6igzd7izlt0k/AABaq53vIqZ9wfpzXzV2SYj6a?dl=0

 

[Bcotton5]

Links to my small collection of cert books on dropbox

It has CCNA sec+ and ceh and ccnp books
https://www.dropbox.com/sh/j1g6igzd7izlt0k/AABaq53vIqZ9wfpzXzV2SYj6a?dl=0

good looks!

 

[Bcotton5]

I'm still trying to get a help desk gig

I gave up trying , my plan was to get the CCENT cert and an internship this summer but these summer classes been kicking my ass the past 7 weeks

 

[King Erauno]

I'm still trying to get a help desk gig

keep grinding. make sure you at least know how to build a pc (if you dont already)

 

[caddo man]

I pass the CCNA 100-101 after the second try, so I am CCENT cert'd! Now I am taking the Net+ and SEC+. I am trying to use up all these vouchers I have. My goal is to have my CCNA routing and switching, NET+, SEC+ and my CCNA Security by the end of the year. If I get it done early I will go for my CEH and Microsoft 7, 8 & 10 certs. I will have my GI bill pay for those.

I am already starting to do some creative wording on my resume so I will go from 1 year of IT experience to 5 years of IT experience.

 

[King Erauno]

I pass the CCNA 100-101 after the second try, so I am CCENT cert'd! Now I am taking the Net+ and SEC+. I am trying to use up all these vouchers I have. My goal is to have my CCNA routing and switching, NET+, SEC+ and my CCNA Security by the end of the year. If I get it done early I will go for my CEH and Microsoft 7, 8 & 10 certs. I will have my GI bill pay for those.

I am already starting to do some creative wording on my resume so I will go from 1 year of IT experience to 5 years of IT experience.

aye fuck the NET+ you'll be wasting your time. just finish up the CCNA cert and get the SEC+ if you really want it. you could also just get the CCNA security if you want to go the security route.

 

[caddo man]

I pass the CCNA 100-101 after the second try, so I am CCENT cert'd! Now I am taking the Net+ and SEC+. I am trying to use up all these vouchers I have. My goal is to have my CCNA routing and switching, NET+, SEC+ and my CCNA Security by the end of the year. If I get it done early I will go for my CEH and Microsoft 7, 8 & 10 certs. I will have my GI bill pay for those.

I am already starting to do some creative wording on my resume so I will go from 1 year of IT experience to 5 years of IT experience.

aye fuck the NET+ you'll be wasting your time. just finish up the CCNA cert and get the SEC+ if you really want it. you could also just get the CCNA security if you want to go the security route.

Security is my eventual path. But I want to get some network experience first. I actually like Networking. I fuck around with Packet tracer and GNS3 just trying to figure out different scenarios. I am naturally curious about how things work.

 

[King Erauno]

I pass the CCNA 100-101 after the second try, so I am CCENT cert'd! Now I am taking the Net+ and SEC+. I am trying to use up all these vouchers I have. My goal is to have my CCNA routing and switching, NET+, SEC+ and my CCNA Security by the end of the year. If I get it done early I will go for my CEH and Microsoft 7, 8 & 10 certs. I will have my GI bill pay for those.

I am already starting to do some creative wording on my resume so I will go from 1 year of IT experience to 5 years of IT experience.

aye fuck the NET+ you'll be wasting your time. just finish up the CCNA cert and get the SEC+ if you really want it. you could also just get the CCNA security if you want to go the security route.

Security is my eventual path. But I want to get some network experience first. I actually like Networking. I fuck around with Packet tracer and GNS3 just trying to figure out different scenarios. I am naturally curious about how things work.

good shit. i took the security track myself

 

[Mr Popo]

I haven't been in here in awhile...I see a lot of ya'll studying for the CCNA... I just started myself...studying the CCNA Routing and Switching study guide....look like this is gonna be hell.

 

[Mr Popo]

I pass the CCNA 100-101 after the second try, so I am CCENT cert'd! Now I am taking the Net+ and SEC+. I am trying to use up all these vouchers I have. My goal is to have my CCNA routing and switching, NET+, SEC+ and my CCNA Security by the end of the year. If I get it done early I will go for my CEH and Microsoft 7, 8 & 10 certs. I will have my GI bill pay for those.

I am already starting to do some creative wording on my resume so I will go from 1 year of IT experience to 5 years of IT experience.

So you got the CCNA before the Security+..Props.....I got my Sec+ and just starting the CCNA.....the CCNA is hell compared to Sec+

 

[Bcotton5]

I pass the CCNA 100-101 after the second try, so I am CCENT cert'd! Now I am taking the Net+ and SEC+. I am trying to use up all these vouchers I have. My goal is to have my CCNA routing and switching, NET+, SEC+ and my CCNA Security by the end of the year. If I get it done early I will go for my CEH and Microsoft 7, 8 & 10 certs. I will have my GI bill pay for those.

I am already starting to do some creative wording on my resume so I will go from 1 year of IT experience to 5 years of IT experience.

So you got the CCNA before the Security+..Props.....I got my Sec+ and just starting the CCNA.....the CCNA is hell compared to Sec+

how hard was the sec+ exam? i took the intro sec class at school and got the testout sec pro cert but I want the Comptia joint