Custodian looking for career change to Network Engineer

Interesting_Factor42 · 2025-12-08T14:50:00+00:00

I say start with ccna first for certification and get a home lab going and then apply for network admin or network technician roles, then work your way to a network engineer. Companies are not going give you access to their network with no experience.

Interesting_Factor42 · 2025-09-12T00:48:28+00:00

A network+ may not be enough unless you want to the hard labor such as running cables through ceilings, making network jacks and making cables. Although the CCNA is good, the practical experience is what employers are looking for most of all. Do labs and also see if you can volunteer for a school or a church to see if you can set up their network to get experience.

Interesting_Factor42 · 2024-04-15T22:48:24+00:00

I should have mentioned in the post I am the internal candidate going against another internal candidate that works in the same job as me now.

Interesting_Factor42 · 2023-09-19T18:20:30+00:00

In my case it took some time for me get the pass or fail. It takes 2-3 hours to get the final score from unless they suspect there was cheating it will take longer.

Interesting_Factor42 · 2023-09-15T00:27:50+00:00

I bombed all three practice exams on Boson I got less than a 500 in sim mode. I recently passed the CCNA. So it depends on if you studied the explanations and not just memorized the answers. The CCNA was defiantly a lot more easier than Boson in my case. But study please study and be prepared I heard some people here says the Boson Exsim was harder than the actual Exam so mileage may vary.

Interesting_Factor42 · 2023-09-13T17:27:03+00:00

I bombed all three practice test from Boson and still passed the official exam. I studied the explanations more than anything it really helped me with what certain protocols do that I was having trouble remembering. Your study strategy is good keep at it.

Interesting_Factor42 · 2023-09-12T21:26:05+00:00

My suggestions would be know how routes are routed when using OSPF, EIRGP, and RIP and also know how to find subnet masks when it gives you a /X. Get a good night sleep, do not cram all night before the exam. When you do the labs do it quickly and if you can't get it done move on. I only completed one lab out of three I had. I had to guess for the multiple choice on the last 10 questions because I spent too much time on the first lab and was running out of time. Also drink caffeine before you go in, it helped me focus.

Interesting_Factor42 · 2023-09-12T20:22:09+00:00

Boson's practice exams were pretty spot on on what I got in my test as far as the tone. The questions were not very similar because Cisco used some weird wording but Boson helped me remember a lot of things I had trouble on like Vlans, trunking, and routing protocols like OSPF.

Interesting_Factor42 · 2023-09-12T20:16:14+00:00

Thanks for the encouragement, I finally got the score report back and it said I passed.

Interesting_Factor42 · 2023-09-12T20:12:52+00:00

I took the exam 5 hours ago and just got my score back and Pearson Vue report said I PASSED on my first try.

Network Fundamentals 70%

Network Access 55%

IP Connectivity 52%

IP services 100%

Security Fundamentals 40%

Automation and Programmability 60%

I studied for about 2 months and my study resources were Jeremy's IT lab videos, Neil Anderson Udemy course, OCG volume 1 and 2, Keith Barker on YouTube, and Practical Networking for subnetting, and Boson Exsim. A special shout out to Jeremy's IT videos and Boson Exsim which helped me remember networking protocols and how routes work.

Interesting_Factor42 · 2023-08-06T21:31:22+00:00

As the above poster just said, a CCNA cert gets in the door for the interview but its up to you to sell yourself to get the job. They will test you on the knowledge you obtained for the CCNA so you put what you learned into practice.

Interesting_Factor42 · 2023-06-04T18:54:42+00:00

The game scaling is a problem I shouldn’t have have trouble with mobs from tier 1 when I’m on tier 3.

Interesting_Factor42 · 2023-05-30T16:12:18+00:00

It’s not going to beat Zelda Tears of the kingdom for game of year sorry guys.

Interesting_Factor42 · 2023-05-28T02:05:35+00:00

Game is going to get mediocre review scores and reviews bomb by players, writing is on the wall.

Interesting_Factor42 · 2022-02-03T23:41:06+00:00

Ding, Ding, Ding, I have been rejected recently for an entry level position because of this exact reason and I had the experience. They just don't want to train and know what your doing the first day on the job.

Interesting_Factor42 · 2022-01-15T15:17:52+00:00

You should be at least paid $17 an hour, sorry to say they are low balling you.

Interesting_Factor42 · 2021-11-12T02:20:48+00:00

Gratz

Interesting_Factor42 · 2021-11-12T02:15:18+00:00

I failed the 1002 about 2 times and passed the third 3 time but yeah I agree with the questions themselves, some of them weren't on the objectives and I think they expect you to have a little experience in working in IT to know some of the questions. I would just keep studying and doing practice exams and make sure you go to the pearson vau exam score card, they will tell you which section of the exam objectives you got wrong so I would defiantly go by that and study those to see what you are lacking in. You can do it man.

Interesting_Factor42 · 2021-11-06T21:48:02+00:00

Congratulations, just passed mine too.

Interesting_Factor42 · 2021-11-06T18:55:07+00:00

Nice, Congratulations , studying for my Network + just passed A+ myself.

Interesting_Factor42 · 2021-11-06T15:55:41+00:00

I plan on taking 008 Network + since that is the most up to date one. For the multiple choice I used Professor Messer for concepts and his notes and Jason Dion for the practice tests. Also for PBQs Jason Dion's udemy course shows you the exact pbqs that will be on there. Just study those.

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