IT Certifications and Careers (Official Discussion Thread)

[Kid McNamara]

This shyt is starting to get depressing brehs

nikka, you just started, stop being a sissy and make it happen.

Care to make it interesting? I'll put $500 on getting mine before you get yours.

Motivation.

 

[↓R↑LYB]

nikka, you just started, stop being a sissy and make it happen.

Care to make it interesting? I'll put $500 on getting mine before you get yours.

Motivation.

you gotta get on my level first lil nikka.

 

[↓R↑LYB]

I have no background experience in IT, I'm just a regular Liberal Arts major that wants to make a career change. I am interested in the security side of it. Currently looking for some entry level spots in help desk or support.

Don't even waste your time with the security+ then. Get your A+, get in help desk and figure out where you wanna go. You're not gonna jump into security b. You'll get a cert that you'll probably just let expire and have to retake again.

 

[Kid McNamara]

you gotta get on my level first lil nikka.

 

[Kid McNamara]

Seems like a few pages back you were going on about some Desktop you upgraded...to 32GB of RAM?

Your GNS lab probably has like six or nine routers in it before that CPU starts going off

Part of my home lab (Cisco Equipment):

Spoiler

(2) 48TB SAN Arrays
(2) Dual 6282 16-Core Proc Servers, 64GB RAM per Proc

Spoiler

I'm just having fun out here. Not even serious about this, using it as a means to get elsewhere, but even still, "I been with made people, connected people. Who you been with? Jive talkin', chain snatchin', maricon motherfukkers."

 

[↓R↑LYB]

But can you see me with them hands though :nonikkas:

 

[Chris.B]

Seems like a few pages back you were going on about some Desktop you upgraded...to 32GB of RAM?

Your GNS lab probably has like six or nine routers in it before that CPU starts going off

Part of my home lab (Cisco Equipment):

Spoiler

(2) 48TB SAN Arrays
(2) Dual 6282 16-Core Proc Servers, 64GB RAM per Proc

Spoiler

I'm just having fun out here. Not even serious about this, using it as a means to get elsewhere, but even still, "I been with made people, connected people. Who you been with? Jive talkin', chain snatchin', maricon motherfukkers."

Straight up overkill and serious waste of money.

I have a whole lot of Cisco professional certs with plenty of experience and I didn't need half of this stuff for my lab.

GNS3 worked fine and I trunked all advanced switch configurations to two 3560's since GNS3 does not do advanced switching. Get a PC with a killer processor and crazy RAM and you should be straight.

Everytime you have to lab up a crazy scenario, you have to get up and move cables? Fukk that. I can build complex networks without getting up from my PC.

I will be doing my CCIE voice in a few months and my lab will be almost 70% GNS3 and 30% real live equipment.

 

[Kid McNamara]

But can you see me with them hands though :nonikkas:

Make a move on me, and be

 

[Kid McNamara]

Straight up overkill and serious waste of money.

I have a whole lot of Cisco professional certs with plenty of experience and I didn't need half of this stuff for my lab.

GNS3 worked fine and I trunked all advanced switch configurations to two 3560's since GNS3 does not do advanced switching. Get a PC with a killer processor and crazy RAM and you should be straight.

Everytime you have to lab up a crazy scenario, you have to get up and move cables? Fukk that. I can build complex networks without getting up from my PC.

I will be doing my CCIE voice in a few months and my lab will be almost 70% GNS3 and 30% real live equipment.

Goddamn

 

[Chris.B]

Goddamn

What's the point of getting certified?
To know the material and configuration and how it applies to real world scenarios. I have 2 CCIE's on my team none of them had a full lab .

GNS3 was the way

I will be following their lead...while you waste money :obama3:

 

[↓R↑LYB]

Make a move on me, and be

 

[Kid McNamara]

What's the point of getting certified?
To know the material and configuration and how it applies to real world scenarios. I have 2 CCIE's on my team none of them had a full lab .

GNS3 was the way

I will be following their lead...while you waste money :obama3:

When I need you replace a power supply, I'll have one of my guys create a ticket and issue it to you.

Meanwhile, my core team will be engineering the future.

Have fun mate.

 

[Kid McNamara]

We have fun, but my CCIE bruhs, lets show these Coli cats how it's done. Don't give in until you reach the promise land.

 

[the bossman]

Everytime you have to lab up a crazy scenario, you have to get up and move cables? Fukk that. I can build complex networks without getting up from my PC.

theres no need to move any console cables if you have an acs server. get a cheap 2524 series router for $100 with an octal cable and you're good to go

I will be doing my CCIE voice in a few months and my lab will be almost 70% GNS3 and 30% real live equipment.

lettin you know right now breh gns3 will be a waste of time. so many limitations that require too many tweaks to make it worth it.

the big issue is no pvdm modules so no conferencing/transcoding also you won't be able to emulate any ISDN PRIs or voice cards, so no voice ports, so no MGCP. no ability to configure unity express. softphones run into issues when you're trying to do plus dialing

gns3 is great for doing most of the CME tasks, but it just cant do anything that requires a TDM circuit or a DSP which matters for the lab. now that 2800 series routers are all cheap since EoL. if i was you id go full hardware/online rental or bust. it's a waste of time going with gns3 for the lab

 

[Chris.B]

theres no need to move any console cables if you have an acs server. get a cheap 2524 series router for $100 with an octal cable and you're good to go


lettin you know right now breh gns3 will be a waste of time. so many limitations that require too many tweaks to make it worth it.

the big issue is no pvdm modules so no conferencing/transcoding also you won't be able to emulate any ISDN PRIs or voice cards, so no voice ports, so no MGCP. no ability to configure unity express. softphones run into issues when you're trying to do plus dialing

gns3 is great for doing most of the CME tasks, but it just cant do anything that requires a TDM circuit or a DSP which matters for the lab. now that 2800 series routers are all cheap since EoL. if i was you id go full hardware/online rental or bust. it's a waste of time going with gns3 for the lab

doesn't matter if you have an access server....if you still want to connect multiple serial links to emulate different serious, you will have to move your butt.

A way around that will be to setup vlans and use them as point-to-point between routers on that network but still...

2801 router is all you need test PSTN simulation. you can hook it up to a regular phone port to test FXO and probably use open source linux to test digital connections like T1 and ISDN/PRI.

You don't need a full equipment lab if you want to go cheap.

CCIE voice does require buying a few hardware but SP and RS you can get away with just a few switches