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Absolutely, hope it helps!

You can take any concentration exam with or without passing the ENCOR, but you need a current ENCOR certification to get the full CCNP Enterprise. Passing a specialization exam without ENCOR gives you a 'Cisco Certified Specialist' designation until you pass the core exam.

@@brunbatterythanks for clarifying this, also can you recommend some path you would take as I’m thinking for Enterprise and Security

@@mariuscosmindumitru5006 I do a lot of network security related work at my job and I still did Enterprise - the security exam track is very focused on Cisco products that I don't use much.

Absolutely, hope it helps!

Happy to help!

I can't say for sure as I haven't used Network Lessons myself (other than the free article portions etc) but I've heard great things about it! I would still read the OCG as a baseline, but I think that combined with labbing, doing your own reading/research and Network Lessons should be enough.

@@brunbattery Thank you!

Did you take the test?

Hey Leonardo, This will depend a lot on where you live. Here in Canada I'm seeing orgs tightening up a bit with remote work. Remote jobs are still definitely out there but they're usually restricted to more senior roles in my experience - targetting your CCNP is a good idea if you're looking to work remotely. Fully remote roles get a lot of applicants so doing whatever you can to stand out is worthwhile.

At the time of making this video I had access to a sub through an employer. Unfortunately Fundamentals is just for associate-level certs, so you won't have access to the material referenced in this guide.

Good to hear! Let us know when you pass :P

Thanks!

Thanks Sherwin - hope it was helpful for you.

No guarantee you'll get the same labs but it's worth writing out what you remember about them for yourself so you can practice the topics of the lab questions. I've heard good things about Kevin Wallace's udemy course but I have no experience with it personally. How did you feel about the questions in general aside from the labs? Maybe you just need more hands-on experience labbing with something like CML, EVE, GNS3 etc.

Most of the question were very detailed, for example some json or python questions. They assume that you can program a whole python script and know the commands to do that. On the lab side i labbed every topic in eve ng but the lab scenario that was provided in the exam were very strange and complex. For example i had to make a bgp connection with a another router and when i have initiated the commands and also on the other side after i runned a show ip bgp route command the routing table was empty😱

@@iliaslkadimi Yeah, you're definitely expected to be able to read and interpret Python and JSON syntax. If that's something you struggled with that's an easy area to focus on improving. As far as the labs go, at the CCNP level it's usually not as simple as just forming a BGP neighborship. There are many reasons you could have a neighbor in the established state but still not be learning routes from them - 'show ip bgp neighbor <ip-address> [advertised-routes|received-routes]' will at least tell you whether you're sending/receiving the routes. I'd recommend doing some more BGP labbing - if you have access to INE they have a lot of good resources for this.

I will check it, thank you for the advise.

They can be dry at times. What would you recommend as a replacement for them?

@@brunbattery Unfortunately it is a necessary evil, you can get away with White Papers and INE if you have at least over 5 years of networking experience, also labbing as well can making understanding the concepts much easier.

Thanks for watching! My cat loves to drag that monkey off the tower and eviscerate him - it's pretty funny to watch.

Hope it helps!

I predict they'll release a new version of the OCG for v1.1 with some sections added/removed and mistakes corrected but keep the majority of the content the same. If you haven't already I would also check out the errata for the first version of the ENCOR OCG as there's quite a few mistakes in there.

Further to this - looks like they're releasing the 2nd edition of the OCG for ENCOR v1.1; see below: www.ciscopress.com/store/ccnp-and-ccie-enterprise-core-encor-350-401-official-9780138216764

That's great to hear! You'll have to come back and comment once you pass your exam :P

No, that subscription only has associate-level content.

Thanks David, much appreciated!

Glad you found it helpful - let me know if you have any questions.

Thanks Adam!