On Fri, Apr 02, 2004 at 08:34:41AM +0100, Craig wrote:
Cisco course? I am pondering to go for that this september (one year only) and I have been told that many people are going to go on it (Oh really ;). Is it CCNA?
Its Cisco network academy, which basically means you should be able to pass the CCNA exam at the end but have to pay for it yourself and I don't think that the college will provide you with too much help to pass the exam. I am also a bit confused about the funding/fees for the course as CCN have told me that you will have to pay £350 (someone told me it would be £1300 but I think that was the price last year) then again I have a letter on my desk from The minister of state for work and he claims that the course will be free if you are unemployed but I know this to be very untrue (unless things have changed in the past week or two, and he has also made some very dubious claims about help available while you are unemployed)
Hmmmm, I have been told lots of things about Cisco courses by CCN from "the course will definetly be running" to the line "oh no, the course won't run" in the space of about 24 hours, all told the easiest thing would be to buy the nice shiny hardback Cisco books for £90 and not bother with CCN imho, they were a very professional bunch of timewasters it took them a month to actually give me any idea what was going on :) and from what I was told the course is 1 day a week practical labs and "lots of reading" so I wouldn't be surprised if you paid whatever fees to get hold of £90 worth of books that you will sit at home reading while trying to get your CCNA... For £350 you could buy the books and a few old routers to study with and do it in your free time. At least thats now my plan.
There are no real courses at CCN. They like to waste advertising space/money ;)
Aye, this appears to be true :) Does anyone else fancy setting up a college?
Adam