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Hi there , I'm currently half way through my CCNA and hopefully if I pass
I'm looking to do my CCNP early next year, I'm 26 and been in IT Support
/networking for 10 years with various MCPs in Luton , Bedfordshire
..

I was hoping somebody could help answer a few questions. Here's the
scenario:

The aim is to study full time early next year for my CCNP , Ideally I would
like to have the certification within 6-8 months( the sooner the better)
I've looked at many websites and most offer a boot camp (14 days etc)
cramming type course which I'm not keen on . I looked at some of the Cisco
acadamy courses but most if not all tend to be part time and last 2 years.

My other option is to do the self study at home, Although I feel this is
achieveable i think there maybe some things I may miss out.



Does anyone know of any good companies that offer a course for 6 months?

Can anyone offer any any advise and curriculum ie, test prep book etc... I
already have 3x 2950 switches and a 2600 router

What would be an average timescale to home learn CCNP fulltime from
scratch providing I have the correct equiptment?


Many thanks in advance

I can't give any advice, but I can offer some encouragement, I am trying
to get an eventual CCIE cert, going for the CCNA, CCNP first, as seems to
be the key...I am doing this as a home study, and using the newsgroups,
cisco.com, IRC in some instances, google, and bookstores to try to achieve
this.

Outta Luck

On Fri, 10 Nov 2006 08:33:08 +0000, Karl Tull wrote:

> Hi there , I'm currently half way through my CCNA and hopefully if I pass
> I'm looking to do my CCNP early next year, I'm 26 and been in IT Support
> /networking for 10 years with various MCPs in Luton , Bedfordshire
> .
>
> I was hoping somebody could help answer a few questions. Here's the
> scenario:
>
> The aim is to study full time early next year for my CCNP , Ideally I would
> like to have the certification within 6-8 months( the sooner the better)
> I've looked at many websites and most offer a boot camp (14 days etc)
> cramming type course which I'm not keen on . I looked at some of the Cisco
> acadamy courses but most if not all tend to be part time and last 2 years.
>
> My other option is to do the self study at home, Although I feel this is
> achieveable i think there maybe some things I may miss out.
>
>
>
> Does anyone know of any good companies that offer a course for 6 months?
>
> Can anyone offer any any advise and curriculum ie, test prep book etc... I
> already have 3x 2950 switches and a 2600 router
>
> What would be an average timescale to home learn CCNP fulltime from
> scratch providing I have the correct equiptment?
>
>
> Many thanks in advance