What you are looking for is all the branch exams from Cisco, but since you are looking for vendor neutral maybe you exclude cisco ? despite the fact that 90% of cisco temary is vendor neutral
2010/2/19 Imran Chaudhry <[email protected]> > Sorry if this is kinda off-topic but I thought I'd ask it anyway in a > "wisdom of crowds" sort of way. > > I'm looking for a certification exam that will teach me the > fundamentals of computer networking in a vendor-neutral way (just like > LPI is vendor-neutral for Linux). When I say networking I mean going > beyond the network-related chapters in LPI1 and 2 (which I have got > already) but not for a complete beginner to computers. Essentially, > I'm looking for something aimed at a starting network administrator. > In my work, I'm faced with a situation where we are designing a new > office network and I want to keep up with my colleagues, some of the > topics are VLANs, routing, choosing address ranges with subnetting, > switches (eg. HP ProCurve-class stuff), firewall/routers and VPNs. > > The exam I have so far identified as meeting my needs is CompTIA > Network+. I intend to pursue that this year unless I find a better > alternative. Are LPI thinking/planning of branching into such a field? > The CompTIA exam is geared for someone placed to be a network > technician but on the career path to a network administrator. It > probably overlaps some fraction of the network knowledge in LPI1 and 2 > but thats not such a bad thing as a refresher of the fundamentals is > sometimes good. > > I've seen many recommended books from searching Google and the > serverfault.com site (eg. "Network Warrior" O'Reilly press and "TCP/IP > Illustrated Vol. 1"). I'm looking for a certification exam though as I > believe that, plus practical experience, represents more higher > quality learning than simply reading a book. > > Thanks! > > -- > GPG Key fingerprint = B323 477E F6AB 4181 9C65 F637 BC5F 7FCC 9CC9 CC7F > _______________________________________________ > lpi-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://list.lpi.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/lpi-discuss >
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