Originally posted by Old Man Whirly!
What is it, what are you doing?Me, I've been doing a lot of Yoga, I have to leave and work three days but I still have 4 days of yoga on my mat in the sun. You?
Just before the lockdown, I got my CySA+ certification. During the lockdown, I'm studying for my Network+ and Security+ ones.
Originally posted by dadudemon
Awesome! I'm working on the CISSP and the CISM at the moment. I will sit for the CISSP in a week or 2.
👆 Good stuff, and good luck on your exams.
I want to get some of those Cisco Technician certifications, but the price is kinda steep so gonna wait til later in the year.
Originally posted by dadudemon
Awesome! I'm working on the CISSP and the CISM at the moment. I will sit for the CISSP in a week or 2.
Well done DDM
Originally posted by -Pr-well done mate 👆
👆 Good stuff, and good luck on your exams.I want to get some of those Cisco Technician certifications, but the price is kinda steep so gonna wait til later in the year.
Originally posted by -Pr-
👆 Good stuff, and good luck on your exams.I want to get some of those Cisco Technician certifications, but the price is kinda steep so gonna wait til later in the year.
Nice. I started studying, at one point, for the CCNA. But decided it would be a waste of time (and it is definitely not an easy exam) since I don't have direct relevance to the Cisco-space. All the people I worked with that had CCNAs and/or the CCNP were sharp and great at their job.
I think part of the value from certs like the CCNA are the simulations. The person needs to be able to navigate IOS properly and use Cisco's best practices to prove they truly know how to administer, configure, and manage their products.
Also, the only cert exam I ever failed was the Security+. I failed it by what appears to be 1 question. Got a 695 and you need a 700 to pass. My problem was it would give you 8 options and it would say something like 'select the 4 best options that represent the Incident Response process' and it would give you 3 good ones and 3 other semi-correct ones and you had to know which of the other 3 semi-correct ones were the best answer to get your four picks (each of those semi-correct were not optima answers). I saw like 20 questions like that and I got maybe 10 of them right my first test. Second test? 985/1000. Studied retired questions to get a feel for the content because I wasn't going to play CompTIA's game. Sure, none of those questions are on the exam but knowing the old questions gets you used to the test.
Here's what I recomend to make it easier: get the Net+, A+ Technician, and Server+, first, before trying the Security+. I later found out some of the technical questions on the Security+ were thoroughly covered in the Server+ and Network+ exams.
Originally posted by Old Man Whirly!
Well done DDMwell done mate 👆
Thanks man.
Originally posted by dadudemon
Nice. I started studying, at one point, for the CCNA. But decided it would be a waste of time (and it is definitely not an easy exam) since I don't have direct relevance to the Cisco-space. All the people I worked with that had CCNAs and/or the CCNP were sharp and great at their job.I think part of the value from certs like the CCNA are the simulations. The person needs to be able to navigate IOS properly and use Cisco's best practices to prove they truly know how to administer, configure, and manage their products.
Also, the only cert exam I ever failed was the Security+. I failed it by what appears to be 1 question. Got a 695 and you need a 700 to pass. My problem was it would give you 8 options and it would say something like 'select the 4 best options that represent the Incident Response process' and it would give you 3 good ones and 3 other semi-correct ones and you had to know which of the other 3 semi-correct ones were the best answer to get your four picks (each of those semi-correct were not optima answers). I saw like 20 questions like that and I got maybe 10 of them right my first test. Second test? 985/1000. Studied retired questions to get a feel for the content because I wasn't going to play CompTIA's game. Sure, none of those questions are on the exam but knowing the old questions gets you used to the test.
Here's what I recomend to make it easier: get the Net+, A+ Technician, and Server+, first, before trying the Security+. I later found out some of the technical questions on the Security+ were thoroughly covered in the Server+ and Network+ exams.
I'm only interested in Cisco because every interview I've failed, there was always that "have you much experience using Cisco stuff?" question. And as much as I like the security side of it, i tend to lean towards the maintenance side of things.
I have the A+, as I did it back in 2018, though the CySA did that wonderful thing of auto-renewing it for me when i got it. I don't have server+, but unfortunately the course i started is a combined network+ and security+, so at the very best, i have to hope that doing the network section first will be enough to keep me going.