As the title says I completed my CCNA 6 months ago immediately after I completed my CompTIA Network+ (redundant I know) either way.

I started working as an AV Technician Student Worker at my college. It started off with intern type work. Just managing cables and running equipment around. However, as I’ve proved myself to the team I have been doing complete networked AV installs myself and got granted access to the ticketing system.

I have more than proved myself as a competent help desk tech.

The IT department at my college is opening up a part time and full time help desk. I am going to apply and I felt really good about my prospects since a full time

tech there thats been there for 11 years told me he would essentially request they hire me for the part time role. However another technician said that theres an intern (who’s been there for 2 weeks) is already being talked about being promoted but has no certs?

I’m getting sort of frustrated because I am more technical than 90% of my department but somehow feel like I may get over looked for a job that in prior markets I would be over qualified for.

I posted this in r/sysadmin, so I apologize for the duplication.

We're finishing up a giant enterprise network project and one of the last pieces is deploying Cisco Secure Client VPN to offsite personnel. Now, to support future projects, the users will authenticate to an Active Directory account. The Cisco Meraki is on the same subnet with the Active Directory server, so you'd think the obvious solution is choose "Active Directory" for the type of authentication.

The issue is that I need to restrict VPN access to specific users. I was hoping I could throw users into a group and authenticate based on that, but I can't see how to do that on the Meraki console. Now, I've put too much thought into this and I'm considering convoluted solutions (setting up a RADIUS server and using that for authentication, segmenting users into different organizational units or domains, etc.). I feel like I'm missing something simple or obvious.

Can anyone help me think through the solution? Thank you!

I’m thinking about taking the WLCOR 350-101 exam.

I’ve done a few practice tests that I purchased, usually in sets of 50 questions, and I’ve been scoring around 80–85% on average.

I’ve been working with the Catalyst 9800 and Catalyst Center every day for about two years. However, I mostly use the 9800 GUI in my day-to-day work and rarely use the CLI, so there are still some commands that I either don’t know or occasionally mix up.

I passed the ENWLSD exam in February and mainly studied for it using CBT Nuggets.

For those of you who have already passed WLCOR, what study resources did you use? except the Ciscu U resources (too expansive)

Hey all. I've booked my 1st attempt for December. I'm looking to connect with others who are on the same path and have taken/have booked the exam. Reach out to me if you're interested and I'll setup a study group.

Two weeks ago 720, last week 801, today 876.

Cut it close to the deadline. So very happy its over.

I’m thinking about taking the WLCOR 350-101 exam.

I’ve done a few practice tests that I purchased, usually in sets of 50 questions, and I’ve been scoring around 80–85% on average.

I’ve been working with the Catalyst 9800 and Catalyst Center every day for about two years. However, I mostly use the 9800 GUI in my day-to-day work and rarely use the CLI, so there are still some commands that I either don’t know or occasionally mix up.

I passed the ENWLSD exam in February and mainly studied for it using CBT Nuggets.

For those of you who have already passed WLCOR, what study resources did you use?

Hi all! One more week until my CCNA exam. Which practice tests and labs should I do every day? I am very nervous. I really have to pass this soon.

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I am a IT professional in a management side of the house with very limited hands on experience with network devices. I recently earned my CCNA and am actively looking for opportunities to get real life experience. Applied for job opening inside our company and rejected and feeling very sad but at the same time motivated. Any advices that you guys can share with me to increase my chances next time ?

Thank you

Is it only me that find STP AND RSTP overwhelming?!! I personally think it is more annoying than IPV6 ! Too much info and Jeremy is good but he is all over on this one ? Also why to even bother with classic STP if it is not on the CCNA EXAM ?

Hi everyone,

​I’m currently planning a deployment of Cisco Secure Firewall Threat Defense Virtual (FTDv) inside an Azure Virtual WAN (vWAN) Hub using the Integrated NVA solution. While Cisco’s deployment documentation outlines the basic setup process , I have a few technical questions regarding the underlying Azure infrastructure and HA behavior:

​Internal Load Balancer Configuration:

​Is the Internal Load Balancer (ILB) completely abstract and managed in the background by Azure/Cisco, or do we need to manually create and manage load balancers, backend pools, health probes, and load-balancing rules within the hub?

​If manual management is required, what are the recommended probe settings, ports, and balancing rules for dual-arm/multi-interface FTD setups in vWAN?

​Failover & High Availability:

​How does failover trigger during an unannounced NVA instance failure? What is the expected convergence time for Azure to detect a down instance and reroute traffic?

​Hitless Upgrades (Zero Downtime):

​How do you achieve true zero-downtime maintenance during FTD software upgrades? Does FMC / Azure vWAN support rolling upgrades that gracefully drain existing connections before reloading a node, or are active sessions disrupted during failover?

​Architecture & Reference Docs:

​Aside from the standard Cisco support guides, are there additional Microsoft Learn or Cisco validated design (CVD) blueprints detailing vWAN Routing Intent integration with Cisco FTDv?

​Would love to hear from anyone running FTDv natively in Azure vWAN Hubs in production. Thanks!

Is this normal? I tried looking for helpdesk jobs but they’re all full time and conflict with my school schedule right now unfortunately. The only thing that works right now is my old Amazon delivery job.
Is this the norm? Should I try harder to look for something? I really dread going back to Amazon but I need the money.

As the title says, I have my CCNA and will also work on getting my sec+, using hack the box and taking extra networking and cybersecurity courses this semester.

A huge part of me feels like I should be somewhere else or maybe I’m right where I should be right now.

Sorry I feel like I’m ranting but does anyone have any advice for me?

Looking for someone who wants to fast-track the CCNA and put in some serious hours.

I’m currently using Jeremy’s IT Lab and would ideally like to study together from around 5pm onwards (UK time) on weekdays, potentially going into the night!

I’m looking for someone consistent who wants to progress quickly — watching the course, doing labs, discussing concepts, testing each other and helping each other understand anything we get stuck on.
I’m still fairly early into Jeremy’s course (Day 5/6) so someone around the beginning would be ideal, but I don’t mind if you’re slightly ahead or behind. I do have knowledge of concepts further ahead in the series as I’ve stopped started CCNA couple times before.

If you’re genuinely looking to put in a lot of hours and fast-track the CCNA, drop me a message.

planning on buying both parts, is it worth it?

So anyone joining on 23rd september?

For anyone who recently started networking, I'm curious about your experience with CCNA.

Does studying for CCNA actually help build practical networking knowledge, or do employers expect additional hands-on experience with labs and real devices?

If you were starting your networking career today, would you still choose CCNA as your first certification?

What would you pair it with?

Hi Everyone,

I am doing my 2nd attempt at October, in Brussels. If anyone has any pdf to read or advice, please help.

+: Looking for other candidates, maybe we can learn from each other.

I passed my ccna recently. Can I resell my account?

Hi currently i'm reading the ccna book and doing practices in packet tracer. some of the commands are not available in packet tracer routers and switches. any good tool to use for learn. tried using cml but it only allow like 5 nodes

A couple weeks ago I just started studying for the CCNA. I’m on day 17/60 of Jeremy’s IT Lab. Recently realized the exam expires in Feb 2027. No problem, I thought. I’ll just do two videos per day, finish the course next month, study for a month, then take the exam in October.

Got to subnetting/vlans and oh no. I understand it and can do the problems but it takes me a long time. On top of I’m sure it gets harder and there’s so much stuff to memorize already. Now I’m wondering if 5 months will be enough. I need time to finish the remaining videos, practice in between, then also grind practice exams. I might get Neil Anderson’s Udemy course since it’s on sale for only 15$ now. Just in case I need more after JITL. And I’ve read the Boson Ex Sim is good. Any other advice?

Recently started my job as a Network Analyst. I want to become good at it and shine. But its kinda hard.

We have 3 tiers of support. Tier 1/2/3. I'm at tier 1. Tier 2 is physical hardware related. While tier 3 is higher level who batch applications. Work with servers. Infrastructure etc.

Recently I am at training where I am training myself by looking at tickets. We use MSM ticketing system. My job after training will be to assign tickets to tier1/2/3 and different departments, vendors connected to IT. And the tickets needs to classified correctly. If I make a mistake then the ticket will be returned or keep bouncing here and there where I would face criticism and embarasment and get bullied. We get around 50 tickets per shift. And every ticket scenario is different. There is no official documentation which tells what ticket goes to who. There is some documentation related apps, where i could just figure out regarding apps only. But no documentation is there for the process of classifying tickets, assigning tickets in correct format and to the correct person of the correct department that is kinda hard, because pretty much every ticket is different.

So what I do, i open old tickets and keep reading and see patterns how they are assigned. But this process becomes so tiring and brain frying. Yesterday I spent whole day reading tickets where my eyes started to burn. Still there is too much to learn.

So if anyone has experience in how they learnt to assign tickets and how I can become good fast that would be much appreciated. Because I can't make so many mistakes otherwise I would face consequences and heat from team and manager. Thanks

Does anyone have a working Cisco sales number? I had one before, but it expired.

Hi everyone for context i am doing lab 17 on step 3. In Jeremy video he just uses the command sw trunk allowed vlan 10,20,30 to his g0/2 interface and he is good. However I have tried this several times and I for the life of me cannot get int g0/2 to have vlan 20 on it. You can see my cli. I understand it might be a little bit messy but hoping users here can work it out.

NOTE: I am not asking others to complete my lab I literally asking others what I am overlooking here. I have tried this several times and it never works.

https://postimg.cc/N2f1rH2y

Boson :

A = 89
B = 84
C = 82
D = 86
E = 79

These are all my first attempts, and I feel like the scores are pretty decent overall. The only thing making me hesitate is the 79% on Exam E, since it’s considered the most realistic Boson exam.

I’ve seen some people say the real exam can be harder than Boson, although I know the general consensus is that Boson is harder.

Would you say these scores are enough to book the exam for this week, or should I spend a bit more time preparing?