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2.0~~Introduction
3.0~~History



1.0 NEWS
Okay so here the basement ..we finished the tiles that day and as you can see we did all are cabling and im just showing of a pit of cisco equipment we got some newer stuff thats in boxes.....

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2.0

Hello,

My names Sheldon I'm 16 years old (turning 17 in march) I just got my CompTIA A+ Cert a few months back passed both exams with 90+ mark, and now I'm going to be working on getting my CISCO CCNA( CISCO Certified Network Associate ) for people who don't know CISCO is the holy grail of networking.

IF ANY MODERATORS THINK THIS IS IN THE WRONG CATEGORY JUST REMEMBER I WILL BE ADDING PICTURES OF MY CISCO NETWORK WITCH ALLOT OF PEOPLE WILL WANT TO SEE... I HAVE OVER 300,000$ OF EQUIPMENT.

I am posting this blog to help motivate me and to help other people out who plan to do this certification.

I will be posting the dates on when I started and finished reading books.

I will also be posting Pictures of my CISCO Lab witch I am Currently constructing.

Overall I will be posting as much as I can when I can because I do have a busy schedule I have school, work and family.
then ill start on the second book... I am reading the older books first then I will start to read the newer books I just ordered them. And if your wondering how I am paying for all this i got my school princible to pay for all my books and exams. As for the CISCO Equipment, its my uncle who owns the equipment I'm just borrowing it.

3.0 History

CISCO Networking Academy Program, First-Year Companion Guide(second edition) Started : February 1st
Finished : February 19th
Done A/Q

CISCO Networking Academy Program, Second-year Companion Guide(second edition)Started : February 19th

Good luck to you sir, CISCO is not easy stuff, ill probably study for a year or so before trying to test, just to let it sink in, probably read the books at least 2-3 times each.

I wanna gear up for my CISSP which i plan to get in about 8 years (10 years required documented expierence in order to take test, and the test is about 1k dollars)

cool nate,


I dont plan to read the books 3 times however....

i am reading the older versions of the book and then im reading the newer ones, then ill have 2-4 months of hands on work (everyday except weekend.)
then 1 month of studying for the exam...

ill be posting pics ASA i can, we are currently laying down ceramic tiles for the floor cause were renovating, and let me tell you lol i hate laying ceramic tiles

me and my uncle just finished doing the drywall and making are runs for the network and electrical.

And Btw I just started to peek at my 2nd book

Hey man, kudos to you for starting on your certifications at this age... not many others our age feel the need to start now.

Keep it up!

hey same to you pcrobot i hear ur doing certs u keep plucking away at it aswell

Good luck! I'm currently in college, and taking Cisco 2. Cisco has a Net Academy, you should check that out to, to see if you can enroll. It has a lot of practice exams and such. Good luck, I'll be taking mine in another year or so.

Make sure you can calculate subnets back and forth in your head with one hand tied behind your back, and the CCNA is a piece of cake.

yea i know it has net academy but im not sure about how much it costs...

NEWS

Just ordered the new CCNA book called "CCNA Official Exam Certification Library (CCNA Exam 640-802), 3rd Edition "

Its got 2 books and a total of 1600 pages or so... with a dvd that has 1 hour video training and 400 A/Q for 47$ but with tax's and shipping I payed 65.99$

so yea looks like a good read

Sheldon, I gotta give it to ya, you have a lot of dedication. I wish I had that much dedication and want for knowledge.

So good luck!

Thanks, For the motivation.

NEWS!!

yep i got my books today, i havint had a chance to start reading them but i fliped thrue them and looks pretty good, i also copied 4 dvd's that came the books so i can use a disk emulator on my computer to use them... The DVD's have practice questions and the ebooks, and mentor video's that kind of crap... lol

Sounds cool!

Okay so here the basement ..we finished the tiles that day and as you can see we did all are cabling and im just showing of a pit of cisco equipment we got some newer stuff thats in boxes.....

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oh yea by the way thats me with the black hair....

Holy crap that's awesome.

Love the pics man, thanks for sharing!

Now I need to get my one of those certificates of my own, LOL.

not bad gear at all. When I started my CCNA i also got a couple 2501's and later borrowed a friends 2924 and(with a friends advice) got a 1721. I am now working on my switching test for my ccnp. by the way a friend of mine got his CCNA a few years ago when he was a lil older then you(hes 22 now) and hes almost CCIE and without any college makes 6 figures.

Anyway kudos to taking the initiave to take cisco on. If you wanna chat or something about it by all means.

Another thing it might be worth checking out is dynagen/dynamips. If you have the IOS images(and even pix images now), you can load virtual routers(pretty much the same thing as vmware does for windows/linux).

Oh yeah, what are you running on that server?

Sorry double posted...

lol i was showing only a glimps of my uncles gear lol we got a few newer switches... in total we will have 2-3 racks...

as for the server it has 2 AMD Duel core opterons and 8gb of ram (can have 32) im not so sure about the board model cause my uncle told me not to touch it cause it was his baby lol he wanted to build it... but yea whats dynagen/dynamips?