IT Certifications and Careers (Official Discussion Thread)

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Anyone ever take the CCNA or CCNA Security certification exam? Taking the CCNA and the CCNA security right after that very soon and read somewhere that the first time failure rate is 95%.

CCNA Security was easy, but I've been working with Cisco equipment and been in security forever.

 

[krexzen]

CCNA Security was easy, but I've been working with Cisco equipment and been in security forever.

Over on techexams, some are saying that they updated the exam and that the new study materials (Cisco Press, INE, and CBT Nuggets) are garbage.

 

[Apollo Creed]

What's the most interviews you didn't get the gig for before finally.landing something brehs?

 

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Over on techexams, some are saying that they updated the exam and that the new study materials (Cisco Press, INE, and CBT Nuggets) are garbage.

When I tok it they had just updated the exam as well, but like I mentioned earlier, I have lots of security and Cisco experience so my experience is different than most.

 

[krexzen]

When I tok it they had just updated the exam as well, but like I mentioned earlier, I have lots of security and Cisco experience so my experience is different than most.

You still see a lot of ASAs in the places you work? I'm seeing a lot more Checkpoint, Juniper, and Palo Alto (which are nice) firewalls in a lot places.

 

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You still see a lot of ASAs in the places you work? I'm seeing a lot more Checkpoint, Juniper, and Palo Alto (which are nice) firewalls in a lot places.

Yeah I see a lot of ASA's but that's because I have ASA experience and those are the recruiters who hit me up. I've worked places that had both ASA's (VPN) and checkpoint (fw)

I haven't run into any juniper security appliances though.

 

[Silkk]

Last domain brehs

Definitely gotta go back over application security & cryptography tho.

 

[Silkk]

@bdizzle @Mainevent_7

Yall ever used Actualtests.com's practice test?

Got a coworker who swears by it but i was under the impression it was a brain dump site

 

[Silkk]

Its crazy to me how similar the CISSP stuff is to the Security+. I was expecting WAY more depth.

Wish i would've started this as soon as i got my Security+

 

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@bdizzle @Mainevent_7

Yall ever used Actualtests.com's practice test?

Got a coworker who swears by it but i was under the impression it was a brain dump site

It is a brain dump site. Don't use it.

At this stage of your career, don't take any shortcuts. The shyt you'll learn on these exams is what will get you to the higher paying positions in a few years.

 

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Its crazy to me how similar the CISSP stuff is to the Security+. I was expecting WAY more depth.

Wish i would've started this as soon as i got my Security+

Yeah, it's almost 90% exactly the same, which is why I tell dudes to go for the CISSP instead of the Sec+ if they qualify.

 

[Silkk]

It is a brain dump site. Don't use it.

At this stage of your career, don't take any shortcuts. The shyt you'll learn on these exams is what will get you to the higher paying positions in a few years.

Gotcha, screenshots had me thinking about it because of the number of questions and the way the test engine is set up.

Site i used to practice my CompTIAs doesn't have any Cissp practice tests

 

[Spin]

Its crazy to me how similar the CISSP stuff is to the Security+. I was expecting WAY more depth.

Wish i would've started this as soon as i got my Security+

Yeah, it's almost 90% exactly the same, which is why I tell dudes to go for the CISSP instead of the Sec+ if they qualify.

Either of you watch Mr Robot? On the latest episode if I understand it correct it looks like he used putty to remote connect into own system to use Kali Linux. Not sure if he went on IRC from there though .

Can't wait to finish this CCNA stuff so I can start doing more Security related stuff.

 

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Either of you watch Mr Robot? On the latest episode if I understand it correct it looks like he used putty to remote connect into own system to use Kali Linux. Not sure if he went on IRC from there though .

Can't wait to finish this CCNA stuff so I can start doing more Security related stuff.

I haven't watched it but I heard of it. It's hard for me to watch shows like that because I know it's not true. The way they hack into systems on these shows have me looking at the screen like

 

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Gotcha, screenshots had me thinking about it because of the number of questions and the way the test engine is set up.

Site i used to practice my CompTIAs doesn't have any Cissp practice tests

I can't remember what I used for my practice exams for the CISSP. I know I had the CD that came with the book, but I'm sure that I used another test engine too