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A friend asked for an opinion on the Cisco Networking Academy as it
relates to the IT essentials I. I believe this course prepares you to
take the A+ exam. I have no experience with the program and was
wondering if anyone in the group is familiar with the program and can
post your comments.

"Barry Watzman" <> wrote in message
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> No, it's not A+ preparation, it's Cisco CCNA preparation (A+ preparation
> is sometimes taught concurrently in the same course, but that's on the
> initiative of the instructor).
>
> The meat of this program is very vendor specific to Cisco router products.
> Also, it's a 4-year long program as often taught.

I took it in 2 years at my high school, but I never wound up taking the
CCNA. It doesn't really fit with what I want to do anyway. 4 years
preparing for the CCNA seems like a bit much though, especially when you can
get a college degree that will never expire in the same amount of time. I
could probably understand 4 years for a CCIE or whatever the top one is
called though.

Hi,
I took the Cisco IT Essentials I course last year. It was said to map fairly
closely to the A+. It wasn't to bad a course, the book at the time was full
of errors, but the online course information was generally fairly good. I
only bought the book because I need the convenience of being able to look at
the course work where ever I was. The questions in the exam are all direct
and fairly easy, where as quite a lot of the test questions for A+ are
scenario based. In fact if you learn the answers to the end of chapter
tests, then you'll know most of the answers for the end of course test. I
scored 97.5% (one wrong), where as for the A+ I only just passed both exams.

As for the reply from Barry Watzman we never touched on Cisco equipment in
the whole course, whether that was because the college I was taught at knew
that we were only there to then take the A+ I don't know, but I don't even
remember the book mentioning Cisco routers or any other Cisco equipment.

Hope that's of some help,
Regards,
Nigel.

"Barry Watzman" <> wrote in message
news:...
> No, it's not A+ preparation, it's Cisco CCNA preparation (A+ preparation
> is sometimes taught concurrently in the same course, but that's on the
> initiative of the instructor).
>
> The meat of this program is very vendor specific to Cisco router products.
> Also, it's a 4-year long program as often taught.
>
>
> Bryan wrote:
>> A friend asked for an opinion on the Cisco Networking Academy as it
>> relates to the IT essentials I. I believe this course prepares you to
>> take the A+ exam. I have no experience with the program and was
>> wondering if anyone in the group is familiar with the program and can
>> post your comments.
>>