Sunday 25 April 2010

Certification treadmill

I just recieved my official CCNA Voice certificate in the mail on Friday. That makes three Cisco certifications I have now: CCNA, CCNA Security and CCNA Voice.

So now I am working on my CCNP which I first contemplated in 2002! This time I'm serious as I have two juniors at work, working towards their CCNA certificates and it would just feel wrong to be at the same level.

I've been phaffing around with CCNA level certificates, now I have finally pulled my finger out and booked the first exam for CCNP, ROUTE.

I am reasonably confidant I can pull it off. I have ROUTE scheduled for end of June, SWITCH for end of Sept and finally TSHOOT (the most interesting looking one) for December sometime.

But me being me, have already been looking forward to next year. I wanted to do CCDP (design prof) as it's only one exam different from CCNP until I realized that you needed the CCDA also. So next year the plan is to sit those two, CCDA then CCDP and then perhaps CCNA Wireless so I can collect the whole set!

Sounds like a plan?

Should I go on to CCIE? Just for the hell of it?
I'm actually tempted to follow the design train on to CCDE and (dreaming now) CCA!

Tell him he's dreaming!