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Overwhelmed with training options Mitch 02-13-2008
Posted by on February 13, 2008, 11:54 am
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I received my electrical engineering degree in 1990.
In 1997 I quit to stay at home and raise my kids.

I'm ready to rejoin the workforce, and I'm interested in
IT/Networking.

Going from Cisco's website, I found that courses are available right
here at my local community college, but I've missed them and they
won't be offered again until Fall.

I started looking into online training, but I have no idea how to
evaluate them...there are so many.

Can I get some advice?

NMFall 20%
Posted by teecie on February 14, 2008, 3:38 am
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On Feb 13, 9:54=A0am, Mitch@_._ wrote:
> I received my electrical engineering degree in 1990.
> In 1997 I quit to stay at home and raise my kids.
>
> I'm ready to rejoin the workforce, and I'm interested in
> IT/Networking.
>
> Going from Cisco's website, I found that courses are available right
> here at my local community college, but I've missed them and they
> won't be offered again until Fall.
>
> I started looking into online training, but I have no idea how to
> evaluate them...there are so many.
>
> Can I get some advice?

There is enormous amount of information and a free Cisco lab on this
site: firewall.cx It has everything on this site, I am sure you will
find it very useful. I got the link from my CCNA 1 & 2 classes and
refer to it often. Hope this helps! Teecie

Posted by ccie15672 on February 14, 2008, 12:24 pm
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Mitch@_._ wrote:
> I received my electrical engineering degree in 1990.
> In 1997 I quit to stay at home and raise my kids.
>
> I'm ready to rejoin the workforce, and I'm interested in
> IT/Networking.
>
> Going from Cisco's website, I found that courses are available right
> here at my local community college, but I've missed them and they
> won't be offered again until Fall.
>
> I started looking into online training, but I have no idea how to
> evaluate them...there are so many.
>
> Can I get some advice?

If you have an EE, I would recommend not doing any training and just
buying the self-study materials available through CiscoPress. I would
follow that up with the Boson practice tests and simulator. I think
that will cover you through the CCNA.

http://www.ciscopress.com/bookstore/product.asp?isbn=1587201836&rll=1
http://www.boson.com/Product/CIS-KK-ICNDCCNA-01.html





Posted by on February 15, 2008, 2:40 pm
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What if I don't know what a MAC address or a broadcast frame is.
Will this take from the ground up?

Posted by ccie15672 on February 15, 2008, 4:17 pm
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Mitch@_._ wrote:
> What if I don't know what a MAC address or a broadcast frame is.
> Will this take from the ground up?


Yes. Plus there are too many resources on the internet to count that
you can rely on. Such as the Networking Forums, this newsgroup, any
number of on-line Cisco study forums, etc.


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