For me, the benefit of having a broad skillset has always allowed me to get access to many different jobs and roles(especially early on in my career). Id rather have options then specialize. But its not for everyone. But its worked very well for me over the years.
My Networking professor told me that if you want to get into Networking it's important to know Python
The network+ will give you a micro view of how everything plays together including switches. I would suggest learning the network+ before going for a Cisco cert if you're not already familiar with the basic foundation of networking
Im looking into it now, I can understand why they say that now. Will be exciting to mesh my two favorite IT subjects into one..
If you dont practice doing the commands yourself, its going to be difficult to learn them honestly. You have to get your hands on a sim and do the configuration. But i would say N+ is good to learn first as some things overlap. But there wont be any command line stuff in the N+ so one way or another you will have to learn it.
It's a fairly large enterprise environment, there are just a few terminals left running XP.
