Long story short, I landed a job as a network engineer with 0 experience and have been managing well with google/books/coworkers so far ever since touching a switch for the first time 3 months ago. I'm also the only English-speaking person in the company which plays my role up in IT. However, last month my company decided I'm skilled enough to get certified in CCNA, and signed me up for a week-long bootcamp with the COMPOSITE exam at the end. It's pretty clear I'm still making my way through ICDN1 content basics, and there's realistically no way I would pass at this point.
Now I'm 3 days into the $3000+ course, and ever since we left VLAN land on the first day and entered EIGRP/OSPF/god knows what, I just can't make much sense of anything and feel like I'm wasting an awful lot of resources. No matter how hard I concentrate, I just can't understand what is being said to me. Somehow managed to talk my superiors into letting me turn the Friday exam into a 1-year exam voucher, but there's no change to it being Composite, and me getting pressured to get certified ASAP. Is there anything I should start doing at this point? I'm honestly very lost and panicking a bit because even though it's the company pushing me hard, I still feel like I'm not going to come out of this situation in a good light.
Wednesday, May 15, 2019
Getting pushed into composite CCNA 3 months into the field and feeling lost
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