Cisco Networking Academy

We are often asked about whether we provide access to the Cisco Network Academy program as part of our courses, and we decided to write a detailed and detailed answer to this question.

TL; DR: no, we do not provide access to Cisco Networking Academy. We believe that our listeners do not need this access remote firewall jobs.

What is the Cisco Networking Academy Program?

What are the benefits of this program?

Why don't we provide access to this program?

What are the benefits of studying at Network Education?

What is the Cisco Networking Academy Program?

Let's figure it out.

In short, it is a Cisco networking training platform. Within its framework, students receive skills in working with network equipment, theoretical knowledge of networks, and also prepare for passing the Cisco certification exams.

Training in this program takes place in parallel with training in traditional educational institutions, and certification exams are often counted as graduation exams. The training materials are provided by Cisco, but the training itself takes place under the supervision of the teachers of the educational institution.

One course in the Networking Academy program is quite lengthy (for example, ICND1 lasts 18 weeks or 90 hours), and during the course the student gains access to didactic materials on netacad.com. After completing the course, students undergo internal testing and receive a discount voucher to attempt the certification exam.

What are the benefits of this program?

Well, from the obvious, students get the opportunity to increase their attractiveness in the labor market after graduation, having received, along with a diploma of graduation, a prestigious certificate of vocational training.

The training materials are designed for an exceptionally wide audience, are written in a very understandable language (so that it even reaches those who are not particularly friendly with technology), and the training schedule is very relaxed: it is assumed that training at the Networking Academy is combined with specialized training in an educational institution

Why don't we provide access to this program?

De jure we are neither a Cisco partner nor an educational institution, so we cannot participate in this program by definition.

De facto, we would not want to participate in this program, even if we had the right to do so.

Firstly, our audience is specialists who are primarily interested in mastering the course material, and not getting an additional "crust" in the load to the main specialty. We prepare students for intensive programs that take less time (for example, the same ICND1 course takes 40 academic hours for us). The duration of the course is reduced not by reducing the material, but by removing the "water".

Secondly, we read authoring courses on programs that cover both all topics of certification exams and questions related to the actual operation of Cisco equipment. All didactic materials for the course are developed by us independently, taking into account this specificity.

Third, we do not support Cisco's desire to simplify the course material to the limit, for the sake of which some concepts are described inaccurately, and the nuances important for understanding the technology are often completely omitted. In our courses, the material is told without the slightest pity to the listeners, without any simplifications; however, we tell it clearly and easily. Practice shows that the percentage of passing certification exams after our courses is noticeably higher than the industry average, that is, our approach works and works well.