OT? Are they really teaching this?

[Michael Butash]

Last time I looked at net+, which was a good 12+ years ago, they were 
almost too generic to be practical. Vendor agnostic, maybe enough to 
edumacate a developer into what a network is (heaven forbid), but not 
enough that you're going to show up on a job and do much of anything 
aside from having to take another class in $vendor.

Good thing with Cisco classes is most other network vendors tend to just 
clone their cli close enough that even if a bit different to keep from 
being sued, it's intuitive enough you can hop on another switch and 
survive.  Unless buying Juniper switches, then start over again.  
Arista, Brocade, HP, even 3com (now hp too) tend to be somewhat "close 
enough" that a foundation in Cisco won't have you totally lost should 
one get dropped in your lap.

And chances are good you'll find Cisco in an employer anyways. "Nobody 
gets fired for buying Cisco", or at least used to before outsourcing 
made their software bug-licious and unstable as anything/everything 
else, only costs more now with same commodity hardware just like 
everyone else.

Hit a goodwill, oddly I hunt books there (non-tech), but find they tend 
to have a lot of older versions of tech books, including A+, N+, and 
other comptia books that are probably only slightly less relevant enough 
to check out for 2-3 bucks.  Or piratebay.  ;)

-mb


On 06/01/2015 01:07 PM, Anthony Radzykewycz wrote:
> I do not know the content that is in the Network+ exam, but I could 
> see about finding out, if you are truly interested.