Juniper has a program called “Open Learning” where you can study for almost any track at associate through expert level. Yes, free training material for even the coveted JNCIE. Won’t see Cisco do that.

If you complete practice exams, you will also receive a 75% off voucher for the real exam. You can do this as many times as you like, there’s no limit.

I have extensive experience with both Open Learning and All-Access Pass, which I used to get about 8 certifications in a year, including JNCIE-DC.

Any questions, I can help.

  • Avian_Carrier@infosec.pubOPEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Cisco does a decent job at teaching general networking concepts, but most of them are “the Cisco way”, which I despise. Juniper is a much more standards-focused vendor vs magical bullshit like Cisco. The downside is that Juniper assumes you know networking already and doesn’t do that great of a job at teaching.

    Another thing to keep in mind is that Cisco, unfortunately, is still the most prevalent networking vendor. This means the jobs are more plentiful and the skillset is more saturated in the market. Most people are mega fanboys of Cisco and either are too stupid or too ignorant to learn other vendors, which limits their thinking and skillset growth. Cisco is very much a cult.

    Get some experience and see what makes you happy, then pursue that knowledge. Ultimately, if you aren’t happy with the work then your career will be miserable.

    • kaateeh@infosec.pubEnglish
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      1 year ago

      Thank you for all your insight. My dream job is one day to be in a red team, but it’s a long term goal. I want to get experience first for few years working with networks and learn as much as I can abt them and enterprise infrastructure. When I started diving deeper into this realm, I started thinking it’d be great to build and manage networks as well, this stuff seems like a pure wizardry sometimes! More I learn, it gets more interesting. This way or another, I have to learn them back and forth. I think multiplatform approach is good. Thx!

      • Avian_Carrier@infosec.pubOPEnglish
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        1 year ago

        You’re very welcome. Please, feel free to reach out anytime if you have more questions about networking or the industry. I’m about 9 years in and have a boat load of certs from many vendors.

        I may end up closing this community in favor of the networking community [email protected] as that sub/instance is more active and I mod over there too. If you can’t reach me on this account, I also have @[email protected] that I’m more active on.

        Also, if you would like to keep in contact on LinkedIn, I can PM you my page.

        Food for thought :)