Advice on CCNP enterprise specialization
So I passed my ENCOR exam last month, and surprisingly had no issues with the Pearson VUE ADA accommodations this time. I'm trying to figure out which of the CCNP specializations I should choose for my next exam. My short list right now includes: 300-410 ENARSI (advanced routing) It's the most traditional. It seems to have more overlap with my earlier courses. It seems like it has the most content that would transfer to other vendors I have access to lab equipment. 300-435 ENAUTO (network automation) It looks more future proof. I'm already somewhat comfortable with things like Python and Ansible It seems more buzzword compliant I'm all about offloading as much cognitive burden as possible. That's what computers are for. Advice appreciated. --Sam
Hi. If you can go for the network automation. Companies are crying out for specialists in network automation, roles currently being taken by previous cloud automation specialists who are putting their Ansible skills to use with defining the network configs as code. Defining the configs is one thing, managing the repos at scale is another. My worry with the routing specialty and why I stopped doing networking myself is the reliance on diagrams by architects especially when you are dealing with a large enterprise with complex routing requirements. In some of the large enterprises I have worked in routing changes to BGP etc take a long time to get through the change control process and diagrams have to be scrutinised by many people through the chain. Andrew. -----Original Message----- From: Samuel Barnes <samuellbarnes@gmail.com> Sent: Tuesday, April 11, 2023 6:01 PM To: Blind sysadmins list <blind-sysadmins@lists.hodgsonfamily.org> Subject: [Blind-sysadmins] Advice on CCNP enterprise specialization So I passed my ENCOR exam last month, and surprisingly had no issues with the Pearson VUE ADA accommodations this time. I'm trying to figure out which of the CCNP specializations I should choose for my next exam. My short list right now includes: 300-410 ENARSI (advanced routing) It's the most traditional. It seems to have more overlap with my earlier courses. It seems like it has the most content that would transfer to other vendors I have access to lab equipment. 300-435 ENAUTO (network automation) It looks more future proof. I'm already somewhat comfortable with things like Python and Ansible It seems more buzzword compliant I'm all about offloading as much cognitive burden as possible. That's what computers are for. Advice appreciated. --Sam _______________________________________________ Blind-sysadmins mailing list -- blind-sysadmins@lists.hodgsonfamily.org To unsubscribe send an email to blind-sysadmins-leave@lists.hodgsonfamily.org
On 11/4/23 15:28, Andrew Hodgson wrote:
My worry with the routing specialty and why I stopped doing networking myself is the reliance on diagrams by architects especially when you are dealing with a large enterprise with complex routing requirements. In some of the large enterprises I have worked in routing changes to BGP etc take a long time to get through the change control process and diagrams have to be scrutinised by many people through the chain.
Ultimately, I assume they are graph structures, and if they're represented as such, it may be feasible to write software to let you query them in meaningful and efficient ways. It would also be interesting to try GPT-4 on the diagrams. It has image recognition capability combined with a capacity to synthesize textual descriptions and to answer questions. As is well known, it can also generate false information, so one would need to appraise its output with care.
Thank you. I will take your suggestions into account. The Cisco Learning Center course associated with ENAUTO is the shortest and cheapest of the CCNP specialization courses, so that's a big factor too. On Tue, Apr 11, 2023 at 5:34 PM Jason White via Blind-sysadmins < blind-sysadmins@lists.hodgsonfamily.org> wrote:
On 11/4/23 15:28, Andrew Hodgson wrote:
My worry with the routing specialty and why I stopped doing networking myself is the reliance on diagrams by architects especially when you are dealing with a large enterprise with complex routing requirements. In some of the large enterprises I have worked in routing changes to BGP etc take a long time to get through the change control process and diagrams have to be scrutinised by many people through the chain.
Ultimately, I assume they are graph structures, and if they're represented as such, it may be feasible to write software to let you query them in meaningful and efficient ways.
It would also be interesting to try GPT-4 on the diagrams. It has image recognition capability combined with a capacity to synthesize textual descriptions and to answer questions. As is well known, it can also generate false information, so one would need to appraise its output with care.
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