I passed my 3rd Cisco Certified Network Professional exam last week with a score of 943 out of 1000 :cool: One more to do, hopefully by July, for the full qualification. Life has been pretty much 100% work and study for the 18mths since I came out of the Marines but its going well and I should be pretty sorted when I've finished this. I'll be going straight onto the next thing, probably Cisco Certified Security, but completing the CCNP is a big step so I'm pretty chuffed its all going to plan :dance: :dance:

congratulations Dave! :duffer: i know that months and months of education can really do your head in, especially if you are working as well. a mate of mine who is a network admin had a go at the Cisco stuff but gave it up, lol. you'll pi$$ over the last quarter of the course mate im sure of it.

Thanks Dave :-) I used to do network admin before I came out of the Marines. I did the Microsoft MCSA to make sure I didn't have any job problems if I couldn't get into Cisco stuff. The MCSA, although a head f*ck, wasn't too bad. I did it in a couple of months. These Cisco ones need a lot more work (CCNA took me 4-6mths, CCNP 18mths so far) but the work is much more interesting for me. Its definately been worthwhile. I was lucky to get working for a company where I can get a lot of exposure to just about everything as well which will really help me in the future. I do outrageous hours because I take on anything that looks like good experience but its starting to pay back now as I'm getting good at what I do in a lot shorter period of time. I've managed to not even break anything (much!) in the process as well which is amazing considering how much rope I've been given to hang myself with on occasions :-)

CCIE (Cisco Certified Internet Expert, the daddy) next :-) Those boys in the City are on 70k plus , nice.

Well done see you are brainy !

 

or you give a good bribe LOL

:-) You know it baby....

I passed my 3rd Cisco Certified Network Professional exam last week with a score of 943 out of 1000 :cool: One more to do, hopefully by July, for the full qualification. Life has been pretty much 100% work and study for the 18mths since I came out of the Marines but its going well and I should be pretty sorted when I've finished this. I'll be going straight onto the next thing, probably Cisco Certified Security, but completing the CCNP is a big step so I'm pretty chuffed its all going to plan :dance: :dance:

 

you are obviously quiet a bright fella....SO WHY THE HELL DID YOU JOIN THE MARINES..... I work in IT (SAP) and know how difficult the CCNP exams are... Most MOD types I know have ended up being security guards for securicor or something... Well done mate and let the money role in....

congrats! i'm looking to do a ccna soon, i already administer cisco equipment but need to get the certification, followed by a ccnp! ccie is REALLY hard tho.

you are obviously quiet a bright fella....SO WHY THE HELL DID YOU JOIN THE MARINES..... I work in IT (SAP) and know how difficult the CCNP exams are... Most MOD types I know have ended up being security guards for securicor or something... Well done mate and let the money role in....

Cheers, I'll take that as a complement :tongue: . I don't regret a moment of it in hindsight. I was planning on going to Uni which would have taken 5yrs and been skint for the whole time and still only be earning 18k as a grad. Instead I joined the Marines for 7yrs, did probably the hardest physical training in the world, went to the Arctic, the Dessert, the Jungle, jumped out of planes into the sea, climbed mountains, did all sorts of funky stuff, and came out into a job earning lots more money :dance: It had its downsides as well but its the sort of thing that you get what you make of it. For the record you don't get many Marines who end up as securicor or whatever. Thats a stereotype thats more related to unskilled ex army types. Marines tend to be the sort of people that do quite well in civvy street, if only through sheer determination, hardwork and doggedness! People who I worked with were everything from failed GCSEs to Degree qualified (this was in the ordinary ranks as well) so there's a pretty wide range of people.

congrats! i'm looking to do a ccna soon, i already administer cisco equipment but need to get the certification, followed by a ccnp! ccie is REALLY hard tho.

Its a great direction to take mate, especially if you have access to kit to work on. IP subnetting is the key to the CCNA. As long as you can do that in your head (magic number system, take away the number from 256 for the subnet, its in the books) then you've cracked half of it already. I'm going to carry on working towards the CCIE straight away. The written is supposed to be at CCNP level but the ninja lab exam is legendary by all accounts!

Nice one mate

 

Those Cisco exams are a nightmare - I looked into them but opted for an MCSE.... now fookin M$ are disbanding those in favour of Technology Specialists

 

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Nicely done Royal!!

 

I'm in Network security myself. Did the CCNA, then took one look at the CCNP and thought 'FOOK THAT FOR A LAUGH'....... Hats off to you if you got the patience to get through it all though.

 

You be able to pretty much write your own ticket once you got that!! :duffer:

well done...my bro-in law has been a cisco engineer for almost 10 years now...done lots of travel and mind-bending exams...still lives at home with mum though the lazy bugger :D