Skillstrain's Cisco CCNA - Updated Material

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Sounds good Arro.

I think headache recommended this book if you want to read something from another author.

Si

 

its good it's all from cisco but whats annoyed me is it's all online and they're not sending out ant written material its all online.

grim

 

when i went on Microsoft training, all the pre-classroom official Microsoft learning was also online only.

 

i think having online material is good because it allows video and audio but i still prefer reading from a book and means ill have to buy the CCNA material which deceives the point of paying them for the course.

hardly done any yet, working on my MCSE atm.

grim

 

...which you could have signed up for at a community college for a fraction of the price. But what's done is done...

 

that would be on the assumption she was able to make college...

grim

 

Colleges don't typically have admissions requirements for "adult education" or "continuing education" classes, such as Cisco Academy, if you're not taking them for degree credit.

 

Even in a classroom training setting the lecturer just puts one slide after the other on the overhead projecture using Microsoft training kit study.

You'd get the occasional video talking about how NAT or PAT works from time to time and then the lecturer rambles on. Don't get me wrong some of these lecturers are of a high bred and caliber but sometimes you just think and know you need more for your money.

It's almost like what do you pay all that money for? I'd say later to all that and get the study materials yourself with a bit of online help material here and there you're set to go.

 

college usually requires you to attend for a couple of hours a week, i personally wouldn't be able to commit on a regular basis and is why i do it at home.

grim

 

I thought by "make college" you meant "was allowed to attend by the university" rather than "could find the time to show up for classes". My mistake.

 

no probs, must be the language barrier lol

grim

 

It can never be said enough.

...except for charging you more for something you could have gotten for less.

But that's bizness!

 

Heh... Arro wants to be a PiMP.

 

Where is headache away? noticed he hasn't been around or posted lately. Ping headache

 

For information - their 'updated' CCNP course is also just the cisco Academy stuff. And a copy of the Cisco Press exam guide books. You don't get what you have paid for in terms of tutor support, a structured training programme with assessments and tutor feedback, nor live (internet) classes, which aren't part of academy online courses.

For CCNP they are still sending out the red folders as well - I'm amazed they've stopped that for CCNA. Have they said what will happen about the live labs?

The red folders were in any event bought in from another training company, I don't know why the updated materials aren't being sourced through that same provider (http://www.sunsetlearning.com/) - except that it's cheaper for ST to do it this way.