IT Networking - CC, Distance Learning, or Self-Taught?

[ajs1976]

Do you have any experience in the field? If not does the CC have an internship program that will help you it?

Can you do a combination of A and B to get the hands on and reduce time and expenses?


Project+ is easy. A week or two of studying the right book and you should be good. Net+ may be a prereq to the Cisco Academy. If not the CCENT material should cover 90% of what is on the Net+. After getting Net+ down, you could try to self study for Sec+.

There are simulators for for routers and switches, but I think some hands on is important. Racking and stacking, crimping cables, seeing interfaces instead of pictures of interfaces, etc.