Re: [SLUG] CCNA

[Ken Foskey <foskey@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Minh Van Le wrote:

> Is CCNA worth doing these days ?
>
> I hear it's hard and expensive (?).
>
> I did a google on "+ccna +sydney site:.au" and turned up some broken
> links and seemingly dodgy sites. Is there an authoritative CCNA site ?
> Even a FAQ for Australian residents or something.


I weigh in here.  UTS does networking 1 and 2 which is semester 1 and 
semester 2 straight from the  Cisco site.  I actually teach semester 1, 
 very basic this is a cable sort of stuff.  It is hard from a standing 
start but if you know where you are you can do it fairly easily and by 
reading the manual.   There is a real hands on component that you must 
do including programming a router so you might need to find a router to 
play with to do it on your own.  If you wanted to do semester 1 at Uts 
consider Systems Software and Networking,  gives you more than just the 
Cisco stuff but it does count.

Regarding the doco,  this is copyright stuff and Cisco are adamant about 
it not being copied.  There have been quite a few changes to the 
curiculum over the last 18 months,  a number of errors and better 
sequencing of the instruction.   Nuff said.

Biggest problem,  it is to M$ centric.  I can set up Linux reasonably 
reliably now but I get lost between the many flavours of windows TCP 
setup.  Imagine trying to debug some poor kids tcp/ip stuff up when you 
have never seen the particular win version,  uuurrrkkk.

KenF