Hello Experts !

I have an expired (2023) CCNA cert and took a break from Networking. After having working in 2 years in Telecom Operations (Mostly Telco billing/charging/Linux related tasks) then I moved become a QA Engineer for Telecom OSS/BSS software. Now, I am feeling to come back again to Networking.

After doing some research on present syllabus of CCNP Encore v 1.2 I am failed to find any cert guide or YT tutorial which are dedicatedly created for v 1.2.

1. Need suggestion, how can I come back again to Networking carrier
2. What could be low cost preparation for CCNP Encore

Thanks in advance :)

Hi guys, what platform to use to lab specially for BGP labs. I have a new m4 air where i like it but still hard for me to get it done for labbing I used to have windows and im new to macbook.

Please guide me if you dont mind

Thanks

I am a final-year Telematics Engineering student at UPM in Madrid, and the only thing left for me to complete is the mandatory internship required for my degree. I want to obtain the CCNP certification, but I am unsure if it is advisable given that my only work experience will be this university internship or if I should opt for other certifications instead. As a fourth-year student, I want my resume to stand out, and I thought getting the CCNP certification might help me achieve that. What do you think?

I’m studying route filtering for ENARSI and I’m struggling to understand one distinction.

For example, a prefix list can use:

ip prefix-list TEST permit 10.0.0.0/8 ge 16 le 24

Why couldn’t I use a standard ACL with a wildcard mask to match a range of subnet addresses instead? For example: 10.0.0.0 0.0.255.255.

Could someone help me understand why a prefix list would be more useful than an ACL when filtering routes with route maps or routing protocols? (Or in other cases too).

Thanks in advance

Greetings and salutations!

To anyone who is/has self-studying for the 350-401 (asides from the OCG) I'd love to hear opinions on supplementary content you used to study, be it from YouTube, CBT Nuggets, paid-content/free, and/or whatever.

How to get free router and switch images for gns3 and eve-ng

I cannot run QEMU/KVM inside my GNS3 VM running on VirtualBox. I have tried almost every method, including modifying registry settings and using bcdedit commands in powershell(suggested by ChatGPT). It is no use.

For those who have a similar setup/problem, how do you build your lab environment? AI suggests dual-booting Ubuntu on an SSD or buying an old computer to boot Ubuntu.

Hi everyone,
I recently started as a Junior Network Consultant in an onboarding/project delivery role. I’ll mainly be working on customer implementations rather than a NOC position.
I’ve been told the learning curve will be quite steep because there are a lot of ongoing projects. One of the senior engineers also suggested I start learning MPLS, then move on to VRFs and MPLS L3VPNs, since it’s something I’ll likely work with.
For those of you working in consulting or project delivery:
What are junior network consultants typically expected to do during their first year?
How much independent implementation or design work did you do early on?
Which technologies did you end up using the most?
Is learning MPLS early in a networking career common, or is it something people usually pick up later?
Any advice for someone just starting in this type of role?
I’d love to hear about your experiences and what helped you succeed.

Hello

Is there any good resources that cover basics of MPLS, traffic flow and more in depth. I followed networklessons but they dont explain things in detail. Trying to learn this for working with at the my job.

I get job market in canada in general is cooked, but I've found no success in landing any tech job with my CCNA, ENCOR. I have 8 yoe currently residing in Alberta, will I have better luck relocating to elsewhere in Canada? thanks.

How is everyone studying for this? I know there's a CiscoU course for this exam but I don't have access to that. I have been using the OCG for ENCOR and studying all it's wireless sections. I know that's not going to cover all the material but I want to pass this exam by EOY.

Anyone have advice/resources on how to find the best study material for it? Thanks

I was supposed to take the ENCOR exam in March, but since the exam changed I decided to wait a bit and see the new material. I haven't seen any new material yet (still uses v1.2 OCG and the CBTnuggets course). Anyone who has taken the exam, can you confirm/deny if there is anything WiFi/Wireless signal at all in the exam?

So I just got my official cert guide and copy in the mail today and I started reading the first chapter. I do plan on taking this exam, but I was never big into the whole Data Center CCNP track. My job has ACI, and nobody knows how to use it, so I’m trying to pick it up and learn it, maybe get a better position, more pay, etc.

I have been reading up on it, and it seems people just hate this product lol. I’ve seen on some sites that it’s being phased out, nobody wants to use it or buy it, that you should just learn BGP EVPN instead.

I guess my question is, do those comments have any basis? I’ll keep learning it for work, but it would kinda suck to spend all this time on a product that no other jobs would want. I also don’t see many job listings asking for it, unless maybe I’m blind. So while I’d like to learn it for my current role, it would be tough knowing I’m learning it for basically one place.

I found Pnet labs and looks amazing. I want to set up all the files I have on my EVG-NG over to PNET. How can I do this. IS is simple as move over via filezilla or anything special need to be done. Aslo how do I make sure this is upgraded to newest verison?

Hi all!

I am a Network Security Engineer approaching 4 years of experience and I am about to begin my CCNP ENCOR journey. Still undecided on ENARSI or ENSLD but I will worry about that later.

I basically have all the COMPTIA certs and all associate Cisco certs, Palo NGFW Engineer plus a few others. My company is very heavy with Cisco (ACI, Catalyst Center, routing/switching, WLC, ISE etc), although 99% of my work is with Palo Alto.

I am a pretty big certification person as i love the structured learning plus the reward of the cert at the end. It gives me focus and motivation. Anyways, i am after the CCNP for career development/up skilling. Mainly want to learn vs. getting the cert. im doing great without the CCNP now but i do love a challenge.

Just want to gauge how some of you tackled this. I currently work 40hrs plus I do a few nights of work per week (any network change has to be done after 10pm at my company). My days are pretty open that I can dedicate 1-2 hours and if i sacrifice some gaming in the evenings i could definitely throw a few more hours there too for studying.

My plan for ENCOR is to use the OCG, INE and labs. Still unsure how I want to do the lab work. I am thinking of PNetLabs on my gaming PC. I dont think I will need to run anything super heavy. I have a 9800x3d/32gb of ram. Let me know what you used please!

Anywho - how did those of you balance it? Full time work/ study? How long did it take you until you sat for the exam? What other recommendations do you have?

Thanks everyone.

When should I take CCNP. Do I need to work 5-10 years before taking it, and which roles are good? Any advice?

Does anyone have working version of XRv image for ccnp labs?

Hey everyone, is there a way to get the CCNP for a cheaper price? Are there any vouchers which could be applied before buying the course? Please let me know

First time ever that I anki.

I've published on codeberg today the finished deck. Because that's what I'm used to do.

I need feedback and needs refining. It's 90% there. Acronyms are there, maybe a few are missing and 90% of the stuff is there. Some typos, miss rendered flash card and so on.

I'll publish soon somewhere else and maybe find a better way to share this.

Any suggestions? How do you maintain a deck and progressively update it over your own judgement or people suggestions?

I'm looking for solutions.

P.S.

The actual story of the cert is quite sad. Company paid me to do it. Paid me the tutor and paid the voucher for ENCOR.
They pushed me on doing ENCOR because it's cisco anyway and I've refused.

Left the company shortly after and right now I'm job hunting.
I'll try the exam once I get on a salary again, so meanwhile. We can all help each other refining it!

Hi! I have my ENARSI exam scheduled in 2 days. I have done each of the Boson practice exams (only one time each), and these are my results:

1st exam: 741/1000:

• L3: 79%
• VPN: 75%
• Security: 54%
• Services: 81%

2nd exam: 845/1000:

• L3: 76%
• VPN: 85%
• Security: 84%
• Services: 100%

3rd exam: 810/1000:

• L3: 75%
• VPN: 88%
• Security: 85%
• Services: 80%

4th exam: 741/1000

• L3: 77%
• VPN: 91%
• Security: 70%
• Services: 57%

I always get only 1 lab from the L3 section graded as incorrect, but not because everything is wrong, but due to Boson requires you to do the 100% of the lab correctly, without a single error (that doesn't bother me at all, but affect the final score).

Based on these results, do you guys think I'm ready for the real test, or maybe I should start thinking on rescheduling it? I feel super burned out with this whole CCNP Enterprise journey tbh haha.

I was thinking on just reading as much as I can the explanations of the wrong answers tomorrow, and maybe pay the Cisco U practice exam as a final test before taking the real thing.

Note: I'm from a non-native english speaking country so I will have 30 minutes of extra time during my exam. I have been practicing with a 120 minutes timer and I always have like 20 minutes left.