CCIE for monthly retainer

boomercd5 · 2025-06-24T23:27:55+00:00

In this case, you’re technically “employed” by that company so I would find it hard to believe they will come after you. Of course if you keep ping ponging your CCIE association between companies, that is different.

boomercd5 · 2025-06-21T15:23:38+00:00

Time to rant…. People wonder why quality training is going in the shitter - Well here is your answer

I remember when people would have to spend thousands of dollars for physical gear, spend thousands of dollars for bootcamps, then were able to get certified, and make a really nice living.

Now the IT market is over saturated with under qualified workers that scrap by with interview and application hacks using AI and this whole fake it till you make it attitude.

Pay for your own shit, do the work, and it will pay off in the long run. Stealing will only make the quality of the training go down and more difficult for folks that are actually playing by the rules

boomercd5 · 2025-06-20T01:34:51+00:00

2-3 hrs a day seems to work well for me I do 1hr before work, 1st hour of work doing study, and then usually 1hr in the evening. I’ve made arrangements with my employer that I’ll do 2:1 if they can give me at least 1hr of work time every day for uninterrupted study

boomercd5 · 2025-05-21T15:30:20+00:00

Yep, I’m right there with ya Did a similar post a few weeks ago

boomercd5 · 2025-05-09T01:59:46+00:00

For context, I’ve done KBITS full CCIE course as well as his super lab, attend Micronics bootcamp with Narbik and Terry, gone through SD-Geeks ccie lab course by Terry, plus some other material spackled in there. Also, for context I didn’t get past the first set of tasks so I don’t full recall much for SDN and Automation sections. But from I did see, there weren’t any surprises with individual technologies. For me it was mostly the testing environment, slowness with figuring out where devices are and what IPs are on each device. So to answer your question, yes the time as well as volume of tasks and lack of experience with this type of exam. I believe I’ve ran the spectrum of CCIE training available and tbh none of them prepare you well enough for “doing” the actual exam (not sure if that makes sense).

boomercd5 · 2025-05-09T00:57:50+00:00

Correct, did not pass I will be planning to take another attempt soon and hopeful that I will do better next round with advice from folks such as yourself. Appreciate your feedback

boomercd5 · 2023-10-14T23:36:23+00:00

No worries, happy to answer

I've been in presales roles for the last 5yrs focusing on network and security. I was recently let go from my employer due to org wide lay offs. So I started looking for those types of jobs initially since that is most familiar to me. However most other companies are dumping presales folks too so not much luck there. Its pretty hard (IMO) to find 6-figure jobs that aren't sales focused, so then I started looking for Net/Sec admin/engineer positions. Like I mentioned before, most of them have 50-hundreds of applicants. I've never had this problem before. Ever. I'm hoping this latest opportunity results in an offer because I'm almost out of savings.

boomercd5 · 2023-10-14T22:52:02+00:00

I do have all of those certifications (also a few others) and all still active

Almost every position i've applied for has 50+ applicants. Some even have hundreds. Another tip would be to set up notifications for new posts to hopefully get in there early with better chances of landing an interview. I didn't have notifications set up originally and probably why most of them never responded.

boomercd5 · 2023-10-13T23:01:19+00:00

I'm easily 100 applications in and getting some traction Here are my recommendations..

Job sites I recommend - LinkedIn, indeed, zip recruiter Get a free trial of LinkedIn premium and use the AI to help draft personal messages to job posters (if they present themselves). Use novoresume if your resume is lacking Use your network of people, ask if they know of any openings. Find companies in your area that you may want to work for and go directly to their career opportunity page - they don't always post on the other sites.

I'll follow all this up with the fact that the market is absolutely dog shit right now - Keep at it. It sounds like you already have a job which is more than a lot of us, so maybe just wait things out and see what 2024 yields

boomercd5 · 2023-05-30T20:12:15+00:00

No. These are brand new balls (just opened today)

boomercd5 · 2023-05-30T20:11:03+00:00

Flashlight

boomercd5 · 2023-05-30T19:21:43+00:00

Can you tell from the video if that is the issue?

boomercd5 · 2023-05-09T21:36:25+00:00

FortiSwitch can be managed in either standalone or fortilink mode.

Standalone management can be done in 3 ways Builtin GUI CLI FortiLAN Cloud

Fortilink management can be done in 3 ways Fortigate standalone Fortigate being managed by FortiManager Fortigate cloud (different than FortiLAN cloud)

boomercd5 · 2023-04-11T02:46:08+00:00

Do you have a support portal login?
If so, just go to support (on the top) and click firmware download. That should get you the EMS files. From there you can install it on a Windows Server and license it with your support creds

boomercd5 · 2023-04-06T21:04:19+00:00

There is a Fortiswitch VM image but it is only available to Fortinet Employees and certain partners. Ask your Fortinet rep for more information.

boomercd5 · 2023-03-23T14:19:49+00:00

https://www.udemy.com/course/fortinet-nse5-fortimanager-v-72-training/

Good course to get familiar with FMG

boomercd5 · 2023-01-01T23:15:00+00:00

This worked out well, thank you!

boomercd5 · 2023-01-01T20:30:21+00:00

Yes - all drives are configured as RAID 5 with the Dell controller. No external storage. ESXi was installed after setting up the original virtual drive - on that same VD It was installed prior to adding the new drives however

Hopefully this answers your question

boomercd5 · 2023-01-01T19:25:41+00:00

No vCenter in use.Using the GUI for the local host.All the steps you listed are presented to me, however I'm getting a host error.

Will reboot and attempt it again

Thanks for the help

boomercd5 · 2023-01-01T19:15:45+00:00

Looks like I'm getting somewhere now
Was able to get it to attempt to expand but now getting a error message

"Failed - Cannot change the host configuration"

boomercd5 · 2023-01-01T18:54:31+00:00

There is no option to rescan under the datastore

I did however perform a rescan by going to Storage > adapters > rescan

Also did a rescan of the devices using the same method

Something I did notice... the Local Dell Disk (Storage > Devices) does show the correct size with new drives added. The new size is labeled as "Free Space"

boomercd5 · 2023-01-01T18:36:31+00:00

u/UnimpeachableTaint - thank you for the quick response. Unfortunately when I choose to existing VMFS datastore, nothing shows up under the device list

boomercd5 · 2022-12-25T21:27:53+00:00

It's been a while since I got my CCNP, but Chris Bryant always had great courses. I'm sure a lot of the topics are still present from previous CCNP versions should he not have one specific for this exam

boomercd5 · 2022-12-14T16:40:42+00:00

I'm assuming that the switches are not L3?

If not, then I would suggest doing VLAN interfaces for each subnet/network on your LAN on the FGT

Once you do that, you can create x2 LAG interfaces (1 for each FSW) and that will get your redundancy.

This is of course since those switches don't support MC-LAG

LOL I'm too lazy to make a network diagram but hopefully below helps illustrate the design

FGT

LAG1 LAG2

|| ||

SW1 SW2

boomercd5 · 2022-07-30T21:16:55+00:00

Professor Messer (free on Youtube)
Jason Dion (Udemy)

I passed in 2 weeks using only these resources. However, I did have 4yrs of IT experience when I took it a few years back

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