What is CCNP ENCOR

CCNP ENCOR

The Enterprise Core Exam, that also leads to the certificate of:

“Cisco Certified Specialist – Enterprise Core”

is one of many new exams and certs that were announced by Cisco back in summer 2019.

 

What is The ENCOR?

this exam is actually jumping in the middle of the CCNP Certificate and labeling it as CCNP Enterprise

throwing the old label of CCNP Routing & Switching with all its old 3 exams (Routing, Switching, and Troubleshooting).

ALSO, interestingly it is replacing the old CCIE Routing & Switching Written Exam, with a new method of becoming CCIE

and that is the CCIE Enterprise Infrastructure, that only requires this ENCOR as a prerequisite.

so it is nice to pass the ENCOR exam and be involved on both CCNP Enterprise and CCIE Enterprise Infrastructure.

 

How Professional is the ENCOR?

The first impression that you might take when you hear about an exam that replaces the old famous CCNP Routing & Switching, also replacing that difficult, expert-rate, 100+ written exam of the CCIE Routing & Switching.

then you get either frightened of that exam’s level, or brace you yourself for something so advanced and challenging coming, well, the Continue reading

Gartner: By 2025 half of enterprise IT spending will be for cloud

By 2025, 51% of IT spending by enterprise IT groups that can transition to cloud—application and infrastructure software, business process services, and system infrastructure—will shift to the cloud, according to Gartner. Accelerating levels of cloud adoption are expected as organizations respond to a new business and social dynamics, according to Michael Warrilow, research vice president at Gartner, and this is driving a faster rate of cloud shift than pre-COVID-19 forecasts predicted.To read this article in full, please click here

Garter: By 2025 half of enterprise IT spending will be for cloud

By 2025, 51% of IT spending by enterprise IT groups that can transition to cloud—application and infrastructure software, business process services, and system infrastructure—will shift to the cloud, according to Gartner. Accelerating levels of cloud adoption are expected as organizations respond to a new business and social dynamics, according to Michael Warrilow, research vice president at Gartner, and this is driving a faster rate of cloud shift than pre-COVID-19 forecasts predicted.To read this article in full, please click here

How We Built Preview Environments on Kubernetes and AWS

Romaric Philogène Romaric is CEO and co-founder of Qovery with more than 10 years of experience in site reliability engineering and software development. For two years at Qovery, we built a Qovery Engine. Environment On Qovery, every application and database belong to an environment. It is a logical entity that links all resources together. When turning on the Preview Environment feature, Qovery will duplicate an Continue reading

Social Networks for Neighborhoods and Home Owners

Social media is the most powerful tool of the 21st century and people are connecting with each other on social media for different things. Whether it is for business, personal communication, dating or networking and communicating for any other reason, people use social media. So it is only fair that there are apps that allow neighbors to get in touch with each other. This may just become the new way to manage the neighborhood watch

Let’s take a look at some of the apps that can help you connect with your neighbors.

Nextdoor

Nextdoor is a social media platform for neighborhoods across the country. It allows you to quickly get in touch with your neighbors. You can post messages on neighborhood group boards, have private conversations, upload photos of suspicious activities or ask questions about city services and get answers from other residents. This app was created so that people could connect with each other locally without having to login in to other apps like Facebook or another social network that has all kinds of different content coming at you every second. This way it keeps things simple. All posts are tagged which means they show up only in your Continue reading

NEW CCNP FASHION

New Fashion:

On June 9th – 2019, Cisco made an announcement of deleting and replacing ALL their CCNP Level “Exams”.

saying exams instead of certificates, as the labels of most the Certificates remained the same

(except for CCNP RS, who got replaced with CCNP – Enterprise).

 

New Criteria:

The new Exams as they are linked to the CCNP badges, came with a new criteria of becoming “Certified”.

now you will need to pass ONLY 2 exams and you will get granted the CCNP Badge, rather than needing a minimum of 3-4 exams in the previous system.

The new system requires 2 isolated parts to fulfill, before you become certified:

 

1- A Technology Core Exam, which plays a role in engaging you in 2 paths of certs. (The CCNP & The CCIE).

– and that will be:

– Enterprise, Security, Service Provider, Collaboration, Data Center, and the newly established DEVNET & CyberOps

2- A Technology Concentration Exam, every domain of the 7 mentioned in Point “1”, has a 1-7 different technologies to concentrate on.

 

This will be kind of having a Master degree in engineering, you consider some general topics, and focus on some other.
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Build Vagrant Boxes for Your Network Devices

One of the toughest hurdles to overcome when building your own virtual networking lab is the slog of downloading VM images for your favorite network devices and building Vagrant boxes1 in case you want to use them with Vagrant or netlab.

You can find box-building recipes on the Internet – codingpackets.com has a dozen of them – but they tend to be a bit convoluted and a smidge hard-to-follow the first time you’re trying to build the boxes (trust me, I’ve been there).

Read more …

Build Vagrant Boxes for Your Network Devices with netsim-tools

One of the toughest hurdles to overcome when building your own virtual networking lab is the slog of downloading VM images for your favorite network devices and building Vagrant boxes1 in case you want to use them with Vagrant or netsim-tools.

You can find box-building recipes on the Internet – codingpackets.com has a dozen of them – but they tend to be a bit convoluted and a smidge hard-to-follow the first time you’re trying to build the boxes (trust me, I’ve been there).

Read more …

Tech Bytes: Getting Traditional Networks Cloud-Ready With Singtel (Sponsored)

Today on the Tech Bytes podcast, we continue our conversation with sponsor Singtel on how to make your existing WAN communicate with cloud services more effectively. The traditional MPLS network lacks the flexibility to support modern cloud services, such as breaking out traffic for content inspection or security scanning. Our guest to help us understand how to get your traditional network more cloud-ready is Mark Seabrook, Global Solutions Manager at Singtel.

Tech Bytes: Getting Traditional Networks Cloud-Ready With Singtel (Sponsored)

Today on the Tech Bytes podcast, we continue our conversation with sponsor Singtel on how to make your existing WAN communicate with cloud services more effectively. The traditional MPLS network lacks the flexibility to support modern cloud services, such as breaking out traffic for content inspection or security scanning. Our guest to help us understand how to get your traditional network more cloud-ready is Mark Seabrook, Global Solutions Manager at Singtel.

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Log4j hearing: ‘Open source is not the problem’

The high-tech community is still trying to figure out the long-term impact of the serious vulnerability found late last year in the open-source Apache Log4j software, and so is the US Senate.“Open source is not the problem,” stated Dr. Trey Herr, director of the Cyber Statecraft Initiative with Atlantic Council think tank during a US Senate Committee on Homeland Security & Government Affairs hearing this week. “Software supply-chain security issues have bedeviled the cyber-policy community for years.”Experts have been predicting a long-term struggle to remedy the Log4j flaw and its impact. Security researchers at Cisco Talos for example stated that Log4j will be widely exploited moving forward, and users should patch affected products and implement mitigation solutions as soon as possible.To read this article in full, please click here

Log4j hearing: ‘Open source is not the problem’

The high-tech community is still trying to figure out the long-term impact of the serious vulnerability found late last year in the open-source Apache Log4j software, and so is the US Senate.“Open source is not the problem,” stated Dr. Trey Herr, director of the Cyber Statecraft Initiative with Atlantic Council think tank during a US Senate Committee on Homeland Security & Government Affairs hearing this week. “Software supply-chain security issues have bedeviled the cyber-policy community for years.”Experts have been predicting a long-term struggle to remedy the Log4j flaw and its impact. Security researchers at Cisco Talos for example stated that Log4j will be widely exploited moving forward, and users should patch affected products and implement mitigation solutions as soon as possible.To read this article in full, please click here

Threat Landscape Report – Malware in Linux-Based Multi-Cloud Environments 

Ransomware-as-a-service has become an increasingly more visible threat to organizations, and we continue to see sophisticated ransomware attacks across multi-cloud environments. A new VMware Threat Analysis Unit report exposes just how agile attackers have become by weaponizing ransomware, cryptojacking, and Remote Access Tools (RATs) in Linux-based environments. The report clearly outlines the steps attackers take once they’ve obtained a foothold in their target cloud environment, either executing ransomware or deploying cryptojacking components. In addition to these two types of attacks, our threat researchers also present how threat actors implant themselves using RATs.  

 In the report, a team of highly skilled and dedicated threat researchers and security professionals provide an in-depth analysis to these key findings: 

  • Malware targeting Linux-based systems is fast, becoming an attacker’s way into high-value, multi-cloud environments. The report uncovers that Linux is the most used operating system across multi-cloud environments, as 78% of the most popular websites are powered by Linux.  
  • Ransomware targeting Linux-based systems is becoming highly sophisticated. The main threats in most multi-cloud environments are ransomware, cryptojacking, and RATs. However, ransomware targeting these systems has evolved to target host images and require high-level host monitoring and analysis. 
  • Monero Continue reading

Using the Linux fold command to make text more readable

The Linux fold takes lines of text and breaks them into chunks based on the arguments that you provide. With no arguments, fold will break lines at 80 characters.The first example below uses a single-line text file that includes indications of character positions. First, we count the number of characters and lines in the file using the wc -l and wc -l command:$ wc -c wide_text 251 wide_text $ wc -l wide_text 1 wide_text So, this file has 251 characters (including a carriage return) and a single line of text. Next, we display the file using the cat command:To read this article in full, please click here

1 … 569 570 571 572 573 … 3,836