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| shagtiger 2002-10-05, 3:27 am |
| Checking out the instructor isn't easy,you know.Especially when you're not from an IT background.
I don't know how the education system works in the US,but tutors here will sell their souls to satan,to get you on their class.It keeps them in a job,and justifies their existence.I was told all sorts of nonsense when I enrolled in college.My earning potential would be unlimited.I'd be "pestered by companies,eager to take me on",that was a good one!!!
But I fell for it.
My sem123 tutor was not much more than a janitor.He rarely uttered a word.He was also responsible for the college network,and he didn't hang around too long.
My class is 2 people now,but it was once 8 people.They all left,because they couldn't handle the pace of the course.It was too demanding.And believe it or not,2 of them already worked in IT.
I think there is something fundamentally wrong with the CCNA,when you can reach the end of sem 4 with a few hours Lab experience.
It just makes for lazy tutors.IMHO,you should have regular practical exams,and regular Lab experiences burned into the core curriculum.But what do I know? I work in a shipyard. | |
| Spides 2002-10-05, 5:08 am |
| It sounds like you were fed the same crap as me at the Academy. We were told that IT recruitment guys would come in to talk to us, they never showed, it was bullshit to get us to enrol. My class kept changing as well, people dropped like flies!! And the Academy is very demanding, I did it over six months, and the last Semester was five days, and I didn't sleep much of that. You have to get through all the chapters and somehow find time to get on the routers!!!!
I agree with you, all in all in about 140 hours of the academy I'd say I was on a router for about 4 of those!!!!!
And don't fool yourself, you know a lot, just because you work in a shipyard, at least you have the fire in your belly to get into an Industry you really want. If you want it bad enough you'll get. I hope you do, good luck............ | |
| CoffeeFreak 2002-10-05, 11:39 am |
| haha,, the IT recruitment are comeing??
hahahahahahahahahahhahahaha
what these small college's say to make you take their classes....
bunch of BS | |
| ITDUDE 2002-10-05, 12:41 pm |
| Certification systems are the same here in the US. Where I live training facilities place ads like "Get your MCSE in a week and make $60k a year!" You can't believe everything you hear! If it sounds impossible it probably is! Having been in the business for about four years now I can tell you, you can have certificatons coming out your a**, but if you don't have any experience the interviewers door will be hitting you in the a** on the way out!!
The academy I'm in grades you on lab work. We had 1/2 hr to configure the interfaces on 3 routers, setup a routing protocol, setup passwords for the console, enable mode, and telnetting. Then we had to be able to both ping and telnet into each of the routers. We've also had people from Cisco lecture on what to expect on the CCNA and excellent tips on how to prepare for the CCIE. |
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