RTA update Setpember 2015

I have been feverishly working on multiple projects over the past several months. I have been working hard with work, school and certification training. The July 2015 session has finished. I have passed both classes with A’s. The first class that I passed was the career development class. This class is very beneficial as it teaches skills for interviewing, resume creation and networking. One of the projects that I was able to do was my portfolio. During the class, I have created a work portfolio. It can be found at http://portfolio.rontheadmin.com. The purpose of the portfolio is to market myself. It contains projects, resumes, and other informational information to market myself as a professional. Lets see how successful this will be.

The other class I took was centered around the Cisco Certified Design Associate. The class was very easy in my opinion. Much of the information was review of the CCNA with expanded topics on Design Goals for organizations and their networks. Many of the concepts I applied in the class, I pulled from my CCNP studying as the CCNP covers more detailed topics in Routing and Switching. The grade I achieved in the class was  99.7% Not bad. I believe that I am learning useful information towards my career path as a network engineer.

While I was taking the classes through DeVry, I was taking the CCNP route self paced online class through the SCTE. I breezed through the first 8 weeks of materials within the first 2 weeks. The final 4 weeks of material I took my time reviewed the material carefully as it was topics I haven’t touched in about 7 years or so. I passed the class with an 89 which is really good for the first time reviewing the material since the CCNP 5 Curriculum.

In addition to passing the CCNP Route class, I have scheduled the CCNP Route exam itself. I will be taking the exam on September 17. I am planning on getting my CCNP R&S certification as soon as possible. I have been preparing for this for a while and I feel that it will be worthwhile to get it as soon as possible. Regardless of the outcome on the 17th I will be starting the CCNP Switch class through the SCTE to keep me on track on my goal of getting my CCNP. My goal is to get the certification by the end of the 1st quarter of 2016.

With that said, It is time for me to get going. I have studying and school work to do.