@Kris
Your cousin may need to decide his interest; Cisco has Routing & Switching, Wireless, Voice, Service Provider, Storage and Security tracks from Associate to Expert level.
http://www.cisco.com/web/learning/le3/learning_career_certifications_and_learning_paths_home.html
Security is currently the most marketable worldwide (not necessarily in Kenya):
http://certcities.com/editorial/news/story.asp?EditorialsID=477
> On May 24, 2010 5:06pm, John Doe fivepings@gmail.com> wrote:
> > aki raises valid issues and they are addres by cisco's CCENT and ICND exams.
> >
> > I am of the school of thought that N+ doen't add that much value compared to a CISCO cert.
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> > But that is just my view.
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> > On Mon, May 24, 2010 at 12:53 PM, aki aki275@googlemail.com> wrote:
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> > On Mon, May 24, 2010 at 10:04 AM, George Njoroge themburu@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > Hi
> > > Why do everything in order to increase your chances in a market thats over
> >
> > > 80% Cisco, just dive into Cisco atleast upto CCNP.
> > > Cheers
> > > TheMburu
> > >
> >
> >
> > @George, consider that you will not be config-teeing each day. Nor
> > setting up cisco gear all the time. What happens when you have to do a
> >
> > inhouse fiber backbone? Or calculate Add/Drops? For networking, it is
> > essential to build on the core.
> >
> > Some thoughts for you = How would you extend an ethernet cable over
> > the 100metres? Ok you'd want to add more switches, what about bpdu
> >
> > considerations? You may also do a repeater, what happens to the frames
> > and chances of collisions/delays in a busy network? How would you
> > design a network based on traffic coming from various reosurces such
> > as Servers, Printers and Shares? Suppose your next network upgrade is
> >
> > to voip, how will this traffic be affected by bursy internal
> > resources? How can you connect multiple routers to create correct
> > routings at various levels.
> >
> > I'm sure you know these issues and I think for a starter they are
> >
> > important things to learn.
> >
> > HTHs.
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