Networking Course Advice

[benh4889]

Hi

I would like at some point in the future to be able to offer managed services or be able to do more business repairs. At the moment I am just sticking to home repairs as that is what I know.

I have no experience in corporate IT networks and was looking for some advice on what training courses would be best to take. I understand the basics of how business networks work, e.g. sever holds all info and distributes to client pc's

I am just looking for what are the best courses (online or at collage) or material to look to get me started in business networks and then onto more advance things.

Thanks in advance

[teksquad]

For beginners check out this course that Keith Barker and cisco put together. Its available on the cisco learning network. You do need an account to join but it is free. This is geared towards someone considering the CCNA certification but what he teaches in these videos is network fundamentals that carry over to any vendors platform.


https://learningnetwork.cisco.com/docs/DOC-15544


If your thinking about persuing the CCNA, then Internetwork Experts have their CCNA streaming bootcamp available for free when you create an account (accounts are free). Brian McGahan is a great teacher and a triple CCIE. All INE's stuff is top notch. They also have their CCNA Voice streaming bootcamp free as well.

http://www.ine.com/self-paced/ccna/bootcamps.htm

[mau64]

teksquad just made me very busy.

[codegreen]

Thanks for those, Andrew! There are quite a few holes in my networking knowledge, so I think I'll start working my way through.

[datagnostic]

You could also take a look at the Network+ book before delving into the proprietary Cisco stuff. It's the perfect segway into networking!

[teksquad]

The only link proprietary there was the INE stuff. The course on the learning network was created by cisco but its all network fundamentals/basics.

Network + imo lacks alot of things. CCNA is cisco oriented, but most of the knowledge from the CCNA carries over to any vendor.

[datagnostic]

Originally Posted by teksquad

The only link proprietary there was the INE stuff. The course on the learning network was created by cisco but its all network fundamentals/basics.

Network + imo lacks alot of things. CCNA is cisco oriented, but most of the knowledge from the CCNA carries over to any vendor.

Yes, well... I wasn't really targeting what's in your links, just the Cisco courses in general...

[datagnostic]

Ben, take a look at this online webinar:

http://commsupport.co.uk/01-Free_day.htm

You can download the video from a previous session too.