SDN Appears in Cisco Career Certs: The New CCNA (and CCNP) Cloud
Most of us probably don’t sit around meticulously reading the exam topics of vendor certification exams. But if you did, you might have noticed the announcement of a few new career certifications from Cisco this week. And if you look closely at one of the exam blueprints, for the first of two exams related to the CCNA Cloud certification, you’d see a bit of a milestone:
- The first Cisco career cert exam blueprints that mention ACI
- The first Cisco career cert exam blueprints that mention SDN
In today’s post, I’ll outline the key facts about the new certs, and look more closely at the exam blueprint for one of the exams. And the most interesting exam topic, given that it’s the first Cisco career cert exam with SDN in it?
“Describe how ACI solves the problem not addressed by SDN”.
Read on!
Quick Overview
Cisco refers to their CCNA, CCNP, and CCIE certifications as career certifications. The CCNA Cloud and CCNA Industrial certifications push the total number of current Cisco CCNA certifications up to 11.
As for an SDN angle – this blog is called SDNSkills, after all - the cloud certs happen to be Cisco’s first career certifications (best Continue reading
Juniper Networks Announces New Network Design Training Curriculum and Certification Program
Juniper took a big step forward in rounding out their certification programs by announcing a new Design Training and Certification curriculum, focusing on best practices and techniques that can be used across the spectrum of network architecture and design. Slated to be included in this program are also technologies around software-defined networking (SDN) and network functions virtualization (NFV).
This is a huge step forward for Juniper's training and certification program and will round out their education portfolio with something similar to Cisco's design certification. Furthermore with the advent of network automation, and SDN and NFV technologies becoming more commonplace, the benefits from such a training and certification curriculum can't be overstated.
The design curriculum will eventually include a portfolio of training offerings, starting with the first course which is available now, the Juniper Networks Design Fundamentals course. These courses and their corresponding design certifications will focus on the latest techniques, resources and various tools that companies can use to fully design, secure, and automate their networks. Trainings will range all the way from design fundamentals on through to more advanced courses covering the design specific requirements of Data Center and WAN networks. The first certification, Juniper Networks Certified Design Associate (JNCDA) is available for registration now, Continue reading
PlexxiPulse—The Open Networking Summit
In two weeks, we’ll be heading to Santa Clara, CA for the Open Networking Summit hosted in partnership with the Open Networking Foundation. Plexxi co-founder and EVP of products and technology Dave Husak is participating in the “Hot Startups & Investing: Building Business with Open Source–VC perspective” panel on June 16 at 2:00 p.m. PT at the Santa Clara Convention Center. The Open Networking Summit draws networking’s best and brightest, and we’re excited to learn from this year’s impressive lineup of speakers. Heading to the event? Let us know on Twitter or send us a note at [email protected]. See you there!
Below please find a few of our top picks for our favorite news articles of the week.
TechTarget: Converged vs. hyper-converged landscape: What does it mean?
By Dave Raffo
Confused by all the talk about converged vs. hyper-converged infrastructure in the data center and what it means to storage? If so, you are not alone. Consultant Scott Lowe laid out pros and cons of approaches to convergence and how they differ this week during the Modern Infrastructure Summit in Chicago. Lowe, founder and managing consultant of The 1610 Group, told conference attendees that the rise of convergence Continue reading
HTIRW: Internet Exchange Points
Most providers — transit, edge, and content — are pretty obvious to the various users of the Internet. Users interact with edge and content providers every day, and transit providers have such large names in the industry that they’re often the subject of news and other articles. But who actually connects all these different providers […]
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What the CCIE does not Prove
I came across an article today about a 19-year-old who earned his CCIE. It reminded me of a Reddit post from a few weeks ago. Someone asked why, when evaluating a CCIE, hiring managers still demand a number of years of practical experience in the field.
I'm in a situation where I'm a CCNP with 3 years of experience. I want to get my CCIE but I keep being told left and right I don't have enough experience and I'll never get a CCIE job without 7 years of experience. Am I supposed to just laze around and wait until I get more experience? It just doesn't make sense.
This is a fairly common misunderstanding among people new to our field, and is largely the result of vendor marketing. People want so badly to believe that a certification proves their worth as an individual, when in reality its value is much more narrowly defined.
What the CCIE does not Prove
I came across an article today about a 19-year-old who earned his CCIE. It reminded me of a Reddit post from a few weeks ago. Someone asked why, when evaluating a CCIE, hiring managers still demand a number of years of practical experience in the field.
I'm in a situation where I'm a CCNP with 3 years of experience. I want to get my CCIE but I keep being told left and right I don't have enough experience and I'll never get a CCIE job without 7 years of experience. Am I supposed to just laze around and wait until I get more experience? It just doesn't make sense.
This is a fairly common misunderstanding among people new to our field, and is largely the result of vendor marketing. People want so badly to believe that a certification proves their worth as an individual, when in reality its value is much more narrowly defined.
What the CCIE does not Prove
I came across an article today about a 19-year-old who earned his CCIE. It reminded me of a Reddit post from a few weeks ago. Someone asked why, when evaluating a CCIE, hiring managers still demand a number of years of practical experience in the field.
I'm in a situation where I'm a CCNP with 3 years of experience. I want to get my CCIE but I keep being told left and right I don't have enough experience and I'll never get a CCIE job without 7 years of experience. Am I supposed to just laze around and wait until I get more experience? It just doesn't make sense.
This is a fairly common misunderstanding among people new to our field, and is largely the result of vendor marketing. People want so badly to believe that a certification proves their worth as an individual, when in reality its value is much more narrowly defined.
Two New Official Repos Added in May
We’re excited to highlight two new Official Repos that we added to Docker Hub in May. These repos are the latest additions to a growing library of curated content maintained by Docker and our partners. Check them out: Cassandra Apache … ContinuedWorth Reading 05:29
This week hasn’t been so much about IT as it has about installing faucets and workbenches… A bit of a crazy week. But I promise I won’t post links about plumbing for you to read. Well, maybe just network plumbing.
I’m speaking at NANOG this coming week. If you’re in the San Fransisco area, you should come by the conference — it’s some of the best industry insight and information you’re going to get from any conference or show, anywhere. And it’s small enough you can actually meet everyone there over the course of the sessions, and get to know folks on the provider side of the industry.
As we get faster at data processing companies “get better” at making use of real time data processing to find a way to make money. The latest seems to be code injection — described in this Infoworld article — putting popups on a web page in mid stream to sell a service, remind you to refill your minutes, or just buy something. Want to make the situation even more frightening? Change the injection in the first paragraph to an ad from a drug company popping over the conversation, rather than a reminder Continue reading