Your Route to Cisco Career Success by Kevin Wallace A free ebook from Amazon/Kindle about the strategy to prepare for a brilliant career in networking. UPDATE: the book was free just for a limited amount of time (I got the link from Twitter).

After one week of training in Milan and passing the exam I've added an Alcatel-Lucent certification to my c.v.: "Alcatel-Lucent Certified Field Expert - ACFE - OmniSwitch R6/R6" OmniSwitch have some proprietary features, like mobile vlans, that may be very useful in some deployments. The new 10K platform with MC-LAG …

Passed Brocade 150-220 exam, another badge added to my c.v. Having a CCNP background and some CCIE theory knowledge I found this exam quite easy.On the exam blueprint just some QoS implementations, VRRP-E and Metro Ring Protocol are different than Cisco exams. STP and IGP/BGP are almost the same, and no EIGRP of …

HP allows Cisco certified people to achieve it's MASE/ASE certs using Fast Track: While HP certifications aren't as popular as Cisco's they can be a way to learn a different platform and increase career opportunities. The official cert guide is available on Amazon.

Today I passed Cisco 642-983 DCUCI exam and it was a surprise to see two certifications on my Cisco curriculum: Cisco Unified Computing Technology Support Specialist and Cisco Data Center Support for UC Specialist The next step would be "Cisco Data Center Unified Computing Support Specialist" but since VCP is a …