Ouch!
Seems like a lot of negativity going on.
Has everyone's dreams been shattered and there career torn to smatters?
Truly - Has everyone had such a hard time breaking into IT?
I just left an interview today to run an entire facility. Several buildings, business partners, WAN / Remote Offices, etc.
The job is basically for a CCNA who can do all or most of the following on a daily basis:
Manage/Troubleshoot an Aruba Lightweight Controller - Next task is to add some licenses to it.
Learn Riverbed Equipment. No biggie, that's what classes and OJT are for.
Assign ports to VLAN - Layer 2 Network that terminates on a Layer 3 6509-E Catalyst Switch - straight forward.
Understand the concept of Metro Ethernet Networks - AKA QinQ Tagging - Not too difficult to understand - but really just tag the network's traffic correctly.
IP Addressing - VLANs are numbered with the 3rd Octet and that's easy enough to understand.
I didn't ask about VTP but given a larger Layer 2 Network Topology, it could go either way.
The routing protocol is OSPF - nothing fancy just OSPF. Don't think of too much redistribution or virtual links. No MPLS magic to worry about.
A couple of Juniper Routers to the rest of the WAN (not under the control of our CCNA).
The CCNA will be asked to migrate a bunch of 3500XL Switches to 2960-S and/or 3750-X Series.
2 Cisco ASA 5510 Firewalls that are currently not using Failover (A task for a kewl CCNA) and perhaps upgrade them to a 9.X version of code.
The list goes on, but is there any doubt all of this can be learned by even a really slow CCNA in a short period of time?
A job like this pays about $60k but can pay a little bit more for a haggler...
Not bad for a CCNA who wants to work on this kind of network for the prevailing rate for a CCNA in the area.
Oh yes, one new building is coming up and has some budget for IT equipment - so the CCNA will be asked to specify some racks, a UPS per closet, and then perhaps rack and stack some switches, configure them for the network, and then assign appropriate ports to designated VLANs.
Which part of this required more than a day or even a weekend, or even a week for a CCNA?
Change Control and local limitations will stretch this work over a larger time frame and that's it.
I think my apprentice can handle such a network.
Anyone see any rocket science here that requires a 4-year or even a 6-year degree?
Comblues
Seems like a lot of negativity going on.
Has everyone's dreams been shattered and there career torn to smatters?
Truly - Has everyone had such a hard time breaking into IT?
I just left an interview today to run an entire facility. Several buildings, business partners, WAN / Remote Offices, etc.
The job is basically for a CCNA who can do all or most of the following on a daily basis:
Manage/Troubleshoot an Aruba Lightweight Controller - Next task is to add some licenses to it.
Learn Riverbed Equipment. No biggie, that's what classes and OJT are for.
Assign ports to VLAN - Layer 2 Network that terminates on a Layer 3 6509-E Catalyst Switch - straight forward.
Understand the concept of Metro Ethernet Networks - AKA QinQ Tagging - Not too difficult to understand - but really just tag the network's traffic correctly.
IP Addressing - VLANs are numbered with the 3rd Octet and that's easy enough to understand.
I didn't ask about VTP but given a larger Layer 2 Network Topology, it could go either way.
The routing protocol is OSPF - nothing fancy just OSPF. Don't think of too much redistribution or virtual links. No MPLS magic to worry about.
A couple of Juniper Routers to the rest of the WAN (not under the control of our CCNA).
The CCNA will be asked to migrate a bunch of 3500XL Switches to 2960-S and/or 3750-X Series.
2 Cisco ASA 5510 Firewalls that are currently not using Failover (A task for a kewl CCNA) and perhaps upgrade them to a 9.X version of code.
The list goes on, but is there any doubt all of this can be learned by even a really slow CCNA in a short period of time?
A job like this pays about $60k but can pay a little bit more for a haggler...
Not bad for a CCNA who wants to work on this kind of network for the prevailing rate for a CCNA in the area.
Oh yes, one new building is coming up and has some budget for IT equipment - so the CCNA will be asked to specify some racks, a UPS per closet, and then perhaps rack and stack some switches, configure them for the network, and then assign appropriate ports to designated VLANs.
Which part of this required more than a day or even a weekend, or even a week for a CCNA?
Change Control and local limitations will stretch this work over a larger time frame and that's it.
I think my apprentice can handle such a network.
Anyone see any rocket science here that requires a 4-year or even a 6-year degree?
Comblues