RE: CCDA after CCNA

[Trevor Corness]

#1: The course "ACRC" is now retired, and the exam is no longer available.
The new course / exam is : BSCN (Building Scalable Cisco Networks) and the
exam is called Routing 2.0.  This is your first step usually into CCNP/CCDP
after CCNA/CCDA.

#2: Whether you want to gain Design-based certifications is up to you.. what
kind of work do you do/want to do?  Are you helping design / engineer /
provision / upgrade internetworking gear?  Then by all means, take the
Design.  I am finding that working for a Systems Integrator, that design
opportunities are coming my way quite often.  I have studied for this exam,
just simply have not written the exam to get the paper.  I have talked to my
employer about possible benefits regarding this cert, and they seem very
interested in me continuing my road to Cisco-dom.. as I am the only employee
out of 6 technical datacom workers, and 200+ employees (mostly telecom and
wireless cellular tower engineers) to be certified from Cisco.

The final answer is, "IT DEPENDS".  Depends on what you want for yourself,
and for your employer.

Regards,
  Trevor J Corness, CCNA MCSE MCP+I
  Network Systems Engineer, Advanced Data Communications

  BMS Communications Services Ltd, A LeBlanc-Royal Company
  Phone   : (604) 232-8800Fax : (604) 232-8899
  Service : (604) 232-Direct  : (604) 232-8815
  http://www.bmscom.com


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Subject: CCDA after CCNA


Hi Group,

I just passed my CCNA test this week and i was just wondering if i should go
and attempt CCDA or go for ACRC ? Do you think attempting CCDA would do me
any good as in terms of advancing further at the workplace ? Or ACRC would
be a wiser option.?

Thanks in advance
Dharmesh

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Re: CCDA after CCNA

[Jason Roysdon]

First, how well do you know the Cisco products already and how good are you
with scenario questions (customer has x users, x sites, x speed
requirements; what products to connect?)?  If you're like most of us not
selling product and doing the design work, you probably hate that sort of
stuff.  If not, and you know it pretty well, go for it as it's one test and
it gets you another cert real fast.

However, my logic was this:  I suck at the design/Cisco product line (I know
some stuff really well, stuff that I work with all the time, 1600s, 2500s,
2600s, 3600s, and some switches, but that's it), so I'm doing my CCNP now
(CIT is all I have left).  As soon as I get that done, I'll do my CCDA, and
then my CID test for my CCDP.  That way I get all the design stuff within a
short time frame and hopefully it'll stick better and I won't have to
relearn stuff so much (I know the CCDA to CID test level is huge, but still,
the point is to have a base and add  to it, not build base one (engineer)
then another (design) and then add back to the other (engineer) and then
adding more to the second (design)).

Hmm, I rambled a bit much.  Really I should be reading my CIT book so I'm
ready to take the test the first day I have available next week.  Anyone out
there ever wish you could take tests after 5pm?  Not that I'd really want
to, and I know I could book a weekend test if I wanted to travel... oh well.

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> Hi Group,
>
> I just passed my CCNA test this week and i was just wondering if i should
go
> and attempt CCDA or go for ACRC ? Do you think attempting CCDA would do me
> any good as in terms of advancing further at the workplace ? Or ACRC would
> be a wiser option.?
>
> Thanks in advance
> Dharmesh
>
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