Certifications

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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Certs!? We Don’t Need No Stinkin’ Certs

June 9, 2009

Despite the debatable value of certifications, I decided to use my two week school break to study and test for my Cisco CCNA certification.  In this article I’ll discuss why technology leaders should consider getting the CCNA (even if you can’t login to any of your equipment), and I’ll share how I prepared for the [...]

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How Valuable are Certifications?

June 4, 2009

when applying for a job or promotion we are competing with people who do have degrees and certifications, and human resources and hiring managers do pay attention to both. You might not like it, but the reality is without one or both, you are at a disadvantage.

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Cisco Training on a Budget

February 27, 2009

I originally posted this on the Cisco Powered Technical Community Forum. I thought I would share some recent experiences with locating training for people who are fairly new to Cisco networking. We’re trying to stretch our training dollars as far as we can, so we met with a local training partner, CCBootcamp. They worked with [...]

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Mac OSX Leopard Terminal & GNS3 / Dynagen

November 27, 2008

I’ve updated the osascript to one that works better than the original one that I posted. I just finished a 3 hour tangent to my CCNA studies. I was going to mess around with EIGRP and OSPF configurations in GNS3 / Dynagen, but was a little annoyed with it opening a new terminal window for [...]

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