If Cisco training is your aspiration, but you’ve no practical experience with routers or network switches, the chances are your first course should be CCNA certification. This will give you the necessary skills to set up and maintain routers. The world wide web is built up of many routers, and big organisations with many locations also utilise routers to allow their networks to talk to each other.
The kind of jobs requiring this type of knowledge mean you’ll be more likely to work for national or international companies that have various different locations but need to keep in touch. The other possibility is joining an internet service provider. Both types of jobs command good salaries.
The appropriate skill-set and comprehension prior to commencing your Cisco training is essential. Therefore, it’s probably necessary to speak to an advisor who can fill you in on any gaps you may have.
Always expect an authorised exam preparation system as part of your training package.
Often students can get confused by practicing questions for their exams that aren’t from official sources. Quite often, the question formats and phraseology is startlingly different and you should be prepared for this.
You should make sure you analyse your knowledge by doing quizzes and practice in simulated exam environments prior to taking the real thing.
A major candidate for the biggest single let-down in IT training is a requirement to attend multiple workshop days. Most training schools harp on about the so-called ‘benefits’ of these classes, it’s almost certain though that you’ll find them a burden to be carried because of:
* Periodic travelling – hundreds of miles most times.
* Availability of classes; normally Mon-Fri and usually 2-3 days at a time. It’s not easy to get the days away from work.
* Most of us think 4 weeks holiday each year isn’t enough by far. Sacrifice a big chunk of this for study workshops and see your problems doubled.
* Workshops typically get bloated with students.
* Often attendees hope to push through at quite a pace, while others are looking to take a more ’steady’ pace and want to set their own pace that fits. This will often generate difficulty and tension in most workshops.
* The cost of travel – arranging transport to the training college plus several days bed and breakfast can mount up with each visit. Assuming just 5-10 classes costing 35 pounds for one night’s accommodation, plus 40 pounds for petrol and food at 15.00, that equates to four to nine hundred pounds of extra costs to cover.
* It’s important to maintain privacy. We wouldn’t want to run the risk of throwing away any possible promotion that we’re owed while we’re training.
* Posing questions in front of other class-mates will often make any one of us feel uncomfortable. Surely, at some point, you’ve avoided asking a question just because you honestly thought you might seem thick?
* For students working away from home occasionally, you face the added difficulty that classes now become impossible to get to – unfortunately however, they’ve already been paid for.
For a far more flexible approach, make use of filmed classes at home, in comfort – taking them when it’s convenient to you – not someone else.
If anything comes up, get onto the live 24×7 support (that should come with any technical program.) Remember, if your PC is a notebook PC, study can take place anywhere.
Classes and lessons can be repeated at any time you need to brush up – repetition is good for memory. And there’s no need to take notes – everything’s provided.
The upshot: Reduced hassle, saved money, and you’ve got no travelling to do.
Author: Scott Edwards. Check out CLICK HERE or ccnatraining4.co.uk.
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