Your certification goals for 2015?

Started by SimonV, January 04, 2015, 01:14:14 PM

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SimonV

So, what are you all planning certification-wise this year?

I'm doing a little detour from the Cisco realm and hope to achieve JCNIA, JNCIS-SEC and CCSA this year. In the unlikely event that I still have time left I might retake the CCNA Security exam as well :) 

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Putney

I keep switching between CCNP and CCNA SP, but I think for now I'll stick with CCNP.

wintermute000

#3
Ditto with Simon. JNCIA --> JNCIS-ENT by February (already read and labbed  it all over Xmas, not hard for experienced guys, just learning syntax basically). I managed to pass the test exam on juniper learning portal after skimming the free PDFs once so after a fortnight of heavy labbing + re-reading the PDFs I am not really concerned (spun up a 6x vSRX environment with every bell and whistle I can be bothered with including stuff in the SEC track - zone policies, multi-area OSPF including summarisation, import/export policies, BGP including local preference and community tagging, GRE, VRRP, etc.) its only really switching I'm slightly concerned with due to lack of lab time (don't have a real JunOS device to lab with). But from reading the JNCIS-ENT switching PDF its pretty much the same crap as CCNP switching, just different syntax. STP is STP lol

Then finally take the big one seriously (CCIE). Have another colleague in same boat, were going to tackle the IE as  a team. I have INE lab tokens, workbooks and IOUs up my wazoo so there's really no excuses, heck I have most of the reading list in dead tree format.

If the company gets another vmware exemption for VCP (take exam without needing to sit the 5k course prerequisites) I'm all over that as well, been labbing that heavily.   

deanwebb

I need to look at renewing my CCNP by July 2016, so I'm looking at doing a CCNP Security exam sometime this year. I'll have to see the books as they come out and let my employer know which course I want to take. I don't have to do it entirely on my own dime this time around, so I'd like to use the resources available. :D
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wintermute000

that will be brutal. The new CCNP-S syllabus looks completely different (in a good way) than the old. But you have all that nice ISE XP under your belt :)

deanwebb

Take a baseball bat and trash all the routers, shout out "IT'S A NETWORK PROBLEM NOW, SUCKERS!" and then peel out of the parking lot in your Ferrari.
"The world could perish if people only worked on things that were easy to handle." -- Vladimir Savchenko
Вопросы есть? Вопросов нет! | BCEB: Belkin Certified Expert Baffler | "Plan B is Plan A with an element of panic." -- John Clarke
Accounting is architecture, remember that!
Air gaps are high-latency Internet connections.

Ironman

I am shooting for the CCDP and the JNCIS-ENT

Bit_Jockey

#8
I would really like to start down the Datacenter track, but I think I've talked myself into doubling back and knocking out the CCNA Security, CCDA, and potentially the CCDP first.  Of course, this all hinges on my completion of CCNP (almost there).  Could be ambitious, but I've set these goals pretty soft since life is anything but consistent at this point.

Edit: Outside of the IT world, getting my Riggers ticket and Private Pilot are on the list too.

NetworkGroover

CCIE written since I need to re-cert my NP in a year anyway.  Back to the grindstone...  :matrix:
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jinxer

Gonna start with CCNP Security and hopefully be well on my way finishing it before 2016.

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ScottF

Got my CCDA scheduled for Cisco Live at the end of the month. Then hopefully CCNP, possibly a Juniper qualification, and hopefully CCNA:DC as we look to be going cisco in our new design.

SofaKing

I need to get my CCNP.  I procrastinated too long on v1.  Time to step it up for CCNP V2.  Has anyone seen the new TSHOOT book?  It is about twice the size as the V1 TSHOOT.
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hizzo3

#14
I am working on CCNA - R&S and my LPIC-1/Linux+ cert. Hopefully early spring, next year, CCNP-R&S with either a VMware or Citrix entry level