Sunday, December 10, 2017

Training material for new network engineer

So my team is growing and I was able to promote a sysadmin up to joining our network engineering team. Right now his knowledge stops at basic IP addressing and pinging devices on a local network.

I am going to spend the next few months getting him up to speed on our network architecture, but I need to get him started with the basics first.

What resources (books, videos, INE courses) would you recommend that I can provide to him to teach the below:

Basics

  • Layer 1 vs Layer 2 vs Layer 3 (we are an ISP, so we need to primarily focus on routing and switching)
  • ARP
  • Spanning Tree
  • VLANs
  • Basics of BGP

Advanced topics

  • Dynamic routing (IS-IS specifically)
  • VRFs
  • MP-BGP
  • L2VPN (Kompella, BGP signalled)
  • L3VPN

I had an INE subscription that expired a little while ago, that I would gladly renew if it helps him. Would it make sense for me to provide him with Cisco certification courses? (even though we are a fully Juniper shop)

I never did CCNA/CCNP/CCIE, I learned all of the above through my own research.



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