June 2009

Cisco Super Certification: CCA – Who Needs It?

June 30, 2009

I received word of the new Cisco Certified Architect – CCA certification via Twitter from two different sources including @LearningatCisco. This certification ranks above the CCIE and CCDE. Here is a link to the Cisco announcement. You can read more on the Cisco Learning Center CCA page too. Based on the announcement, the requirements for [...]

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4 Steps to Stop Fighting Fires: Step 3 Create Repeatable Build Library

June 28, 2009

This article is part of a series that I am writing on how to use the Visible Ops Handbook to stop firefighting and start leading your business. In this article we will look at how to create a repeatable build library that makes it “cheaper to rebuild than to repair” (Visible Ops page 24). By [...]

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Reading List for Week Ending 6/27/09

June 27, 2009

I read an awful lot of articles, blog posts, and books and thought you readers might find at least some of them useful. Each week I’ll post links to the ones that I found most interesting or useful. I’ve also created a category, Reading List, so you can easily find and review these lists at [...]

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GNS3 Files for CCNA Level Practice

June 22, 2009

I thought I’d share the GNS3 files that I used to study for my CCNA. This isn’t based off of any lab that I know of, I just made them up. I created a blank Frame Relay network and a blank router network and practiced configuring them for Frame Relay hub and spoke, NAT, DHCP [...]

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4 Steps to Stop Fighting Fires: Step 2 Find Fragile Artifacts

June 22, 2009

In last week’s installment, we learned to stop shooting ourselves in the foot. You know the old joke, Patient: “Doctor, it hurts when I move my arm like this.” Doctor: “Well, stop moving your arm like that.” In our case it hurts when we continually make mistakes that result in service interruptions, so we stopped [...]

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