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klientel said:
I dunno why I never come in this thread. But if y'all need need to know anything and I can help, hit me up.

I've been at Cisco in Advanced Services for about 3 years. I'm on the Data Center Optimization team, I started out with UCS/Nexus/MDS now I pretty much exclusively work with ACI and trying to pick up SD-WAN. But this is probably my last year doing this. Either I make a move to sales and make some REAL money, or I attempt to make the Dev Ops switch. To get into Dev Ops I'd even go back to the customer side, because thats where the future of IT is. All other shyt is irrelevant honestly....

But if anybody is just starting out I'd say learn/study the basics, A+ > CCNA > VCP. That will probably give you a good enough foundation to land a decent job and get out of Helpdesk as fast as possible. Plus its really easy to lab a bunch of that stuff if you have a decent computer. A+ is a book exam, no need to lab anything there. VIRL or Packet Tracer is good for labbing route/switch, GNS is garbage. For VMWare you can build a nested lab in VM Workstation which is free.

Then you can branch off and start moving into something more specific. IMO there is only two routes to go if you want to make money and future proof yourself....obviously security and the other is cloud/devops. If you want to go security then you probably don't need a lot of the stuff I said, I dunno....thats not really my thing. :yeshrug:

If you want to make the dev ops switch start with RHCSA. Being a "Windows guy" is pointless, everyone and their momma knows Windows and its a dead end. If you want to advance you need to learn Linux immediately. Once you have that and a good foundation in virtualization (that's where the VCP comes in), I'd move on to studying Openstack(you can home lab this as well). Its a really easy transition from VMWare and its super niche, so that skillset will help you standout. Then you're ready to get into Kubernetes, Docker and automation/IaaC(Puppet, Terraform and Ansible are probably the best places to start). Even if you have no real experience with those tools and just studied it at the surface level, you're still in better shape than 99.9999% of the market and with even one year of experience you can demand almost any salary you want.
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I''ve been thinking of getting into sales but not sure if i really want to incase i get pigeonholed and cant mote into a more technical roles down the line
 
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Pyrexcup said:
I''ve been thinking of getting into sales but not sure if i really want to incase i get pigeonholed and cant mote into a more technical roles down the line
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One you go sales expect to stay there. I don’t know many guys who make the jump back to a heavy technical role once they cross over. The good thing is you will be able to move around from company to company. Sales experience is more valuable then technical knowledge at that point.

Land the right position and you will be set. Right now at Cisco in the sales forecast tool there are a lot of guys expected to make 50-75k in commission alone(not sure why they allow people to see this shyt lol). And that’s on top of their base salary which I think is close to 150k. Some guys hit way above that in commission if they are in a big market.

These guys have little to no technical ability. They know the bare minimum about everything, but they can sell their asses off.
 
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Do you have any certifications and also what was your IT jobs before the SOC position
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I have the Sec+ and I'm working on the CCNA Cyber Ops. Honestly if you can, get in on the CCNA Cyber Ops scholarship because the course and labs are a wealth of practical information. It's probably the biggest part of why I got this job(technically it's an internship, but money is money)

And before this I was working in Desktop Support.
 
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Alright ya'll I'm interviewing for this desktop support role. I just passed the phone interview and they sent me an assessment of a bunch of scenarios they want me to write about. This is the genreral questions of the essays:

Onboarding new software to all employee laptops?

A meeting about to happen in 15 minutes and there's connectivity issues to the conferencing equipment?

Coordinating between vendors one vendor we need to get new IPs from and the other vendor is delivering conferencing equipment:
 
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I just knocked out the 98-366 Networking Fundamentals book in one weekend. If I had my 2 forms of ID I would’ve scheduled to take the exam. Once I get those documents imma smash it. Motivated to do the Modern Desktop and Server ones next

Edit: just took a 276 question practice test.. got 253 correct for a score of 91.6% . Couple of careless mistakes here and there.. will study one more day then retry it . I hate I dont have ID or Birth Certificate cuz I would strike while the iron is hot
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maaaaaaan I thought I was hot shyt after smashing this 98-366 MTA shyt. Come to find out, this shyt is high school level :stopitslime: i feel played. Hopping into Net+ after work. I need all the smoke
 
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L&HH said:
Alright ya'll I'm interviewing for this desktop support role. I just passed the phone interview and they sent me an assessment of a bunch of scenarios they want me to write about. This is the genreral questions of the essays:

Onboarding new software to all employee laptops?

A meeting about to happen in 15 minutes and there's connectivity issues to the conferencing equipment?

Coordinating between vendors one vendor we need to get new IPs from and the other vendor is delivering conferencing equipment:
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This is for a desktop support job lol? Only the question about IP's is what I would consider a question for someone in desktop support.

1. If SCCM is an option I would put together a package and push it to the devices. If not I would create a group policy object for all devices in the domain with the installer.

2. I would try and ping the conference equipment and check general connectivity, if I can reach Google but not the conference then it could be an issue on the opposite end.Check the connections and replug everything verify that I have link lights. If not then I would try a different cable. If possible I would try another port. Do ipconfig release and renew. Run the windows troubleshooter and restart the device.

3. This one doesn't make sense, what are they asking for? The public IP of your network? Are you trying to get more public IP's for the equipment? How would you coordinate with them?
 
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klientel said:
I dunno why I never come in this thread. But if y'all need need to know anything and I can help, hit me up.

I've been at Cisco in Advanced Services for about 3 years. I'm on the Data Center Optimization team, I started out with UCS/Nexus/MDS now I pretty much exclusively work with ACI and trying to pick up SD-WAN. But this is probably my last year doing this. Either I make a move to sales and make some REAL money, or I attempt to make the Dev Ops switch. To get into Dev Ops I'd even go back to the customer side, because thats where the future of IT is. All other shyt is irrelevant honestly....

But if anybody is just starting out I'd say learn/study the basics, A+ > CCNA > VCP. That will probably give you a good enough foundation to land a decent job and get out of Helpdesk as fast as possible. Plus its really easy to lab a bunch of that stuff if you have a decent computer. A+ is a book exam, no need to lab anything there. VIRL or Packet Tracer is good for labbing route/switch, GNS is garbage. For VMWare you can build a nested lab in VM Workstation which is free.

Then you can branch off and start moving into something more specific. IMO there is only two routes to go if you want to make money and future proof yourself....obviously security and the other is cloud/devops. If you want to go security then you probably don't need a lot of the stuff I said, I dunno....thats not really my thing. :yeshrug:

If you want to make the dev ops switch start with RHCSA. Being a "Windows guy" is pointless, everyone and their momma knows Windows and its a dead end. If you want to advance you need to learn Linux immediately. Once you have that and a good foundation in virtualization (that's where the VCP comes in), I'd move on to studying Openstack(you can home lab this as well). Its a really easy transition from VMWare and its super niche, so that skillset will help you standout. Then you're ready to get into Kubernetes, Docker and automation/IaaC(Puppet, Terraform and Ansible are probably the best places to start). Even if you have no real experience with those tools and just studied it at the surface level, you're still in better shape than 99.9999% of the market
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If you’re aiming for security which ccna do you get? I’ve seen different ones and I’m not sure what’s the difference.
 
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