I used to be a Cisco fanboy, but not anymore. However one thing that I respect about Cisco is their documentation. No other vendor documents protocols/processes/products like Cisco does. This is also true with their certs.
My question is why haven't other vendors came together and try to build a decent vendor-neutral network certification that actually teaches you stuff? I was surprised to see that only the CCNA teaches you about subnetting, how to use a serial console and basic routing. The Network+ is a bit useless if you ask me since it teaches you very basic stuff and it hardly counts as an achievement.
Below a list of stuff that should be vendor neutral.
- Subnetting
-IPv6
-Routing with OSPF
-Basic BGP
-Layer1/2 ethernet standards.
-IPsec VPNs
-NAT (including 6to4 4to6)
-Stateful firewalling.
-Protocol fundamentals with wireshark.
-Basic *nix commands (since all vendors use a *nix product as an underlay for their operating systems).
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