CCNA and CCNP candidates hear it all the time:  “Get some hands-on experience”.  From my personal experience climbing the Cisco certification ladder, I can tell you firsthand that there is no learning like hands-on learning.   No simulator in the world is going to give you the experience you will get cabling and configuring your own routers. Read the full story

Okay, you did it!  You earned your Cisco Certified Network Associate certification. 

Now what? Read the full story

From the CCNA to the CCIE, ISDN is one of the most important technolgies you’ll work with.  It’s also very common in the field  ISDN is frequently used as a backup connection in case an organization’s Frame Relay connections go down.  Therefore, it’s important to know ISDN basics not only for your particular exam, but for job success. Read the full story

When you choose to pursue your Cisco Certified Network Professional certification, you’ve got some decisions to make right at the beginning. Cisco offers a three-exam path and a four-exam path, and you select the order in which you’ll take and pass the exams. Read the full story

Whenever a Cisco exam version changes, there’s always a lot of chatter about it on the web.  The CCNA exams are no exception.

One comment I see often goes like this: ” I hear Cisco is going to change Intro / ICND / CCNA exam versions soon, so I’m not going to start studying yet.  I’ll wait until the new exam comes out.” Read the full story

Ask a CCNA candidate how they’re preparing for exam day, and you’ll get different answers.  Different books, different websites, different practice exams. 

One trend I’ve noticed is that some candidates answer the question by reeling off the number and names of the practice exams they’ve purchased.  Basically, the candidate is studying by taking a lot of practice exams.  And in some cases, I mean a lot of them. Read the full story