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I am looking for ccna for getting a job, ccna has been a bare minimum in today's market.

I just wanna know people who passed ccna, after how many years or time did you guys think of professional certificates.

I dont know if this subreddit is the place to ask this.

Thanks.

I'm early into ENCOR prep and going back and forth on whether to sink time into setting up EVE-NG or CML versus just sticking with Packet Tracer as long as possible before switching. I know Packet Tracer won't cut it for the whole exam, but I'm trying to figure out at what point in studying it actually becomes a bottleneck.

For people who've already gone through ENCOR, when did you personally feel like you outgrew Packet Tracer, and was setting up a proper lab environment worth the time investment upfront, or did you mostly get by with a lighter setup and only dig into heavier labs for specific topics like SD-WAN or automation? Trying to figure out where to put my limited setup time before diving deeper into the material.

Left a big file transfer running overnight, figured I'd wake up to it done. Instead I come back to Windows having decided that was the perfect moment to install updates and restart, right in the middle of copying everything.

Nothing lost this time thankfully, but the fact that it just does whatever it wants regardless of what you're actively doing on the machine is exactly why I've been slowly moving everything off Windows. Never fails to pick the worst possible moment.

Working through some of the intermediate rooms right now and hit a wall on one that's testing privilege escalation concepts. Not asking for a walkthrough or spoilers, just curious about the general experience of getting stuck.

For people who've been through this, was there a specific approach that helped when a room wasn't clicking, stepping away and coming back later, reading through the concepts again from scratch, or working through a completely different room first to build confidence before returning? Trying to figure out if grinding through the frustration is the move or if there's a smarter way to approach a wall like this.

Current setup is a few years old at this point, Ryzen 5 3600, 16GB RAM, and an older GTX 1660. Everything else still runs fine for what I use it for, but the GPU is clearly the bottleneck now for anything newer I try to play.

I keep going back and forth between just dropping in a new GPU now and calling it good for another year or two, versus saving up a bit longer and doing a full rebuild since the CPU and RAM are getting old too. Don't want to spend money on a nice GPU only to find out the rest of the system is holding it back and I have to upgrade everything anyway within a year.

For people who've done a partial upgrade like this, did it actually hold up for a while, or did you end up regretting not just doing the whole build at once? Trying to figure out if there's a point where mixing old and new parts stops making sense.

A neighbor asked me a few months back if I could sit with her mom at a doctor's office because she couldn't get off work and didn't want her mom waiting alone before a procedure. I said sure, brought a book, chatted with her for the twenty minutes before she got called back, and got handed forty bucks for basically doing nothing.

Somehow that turned into a small thing. A couple other families in the area started reaching out, mostly adult kids who live far away or can't take time off, wanting someone to just be present with an elderly parent before appointments, sit with them in the waiting room, hold their bag, make small talk so they're not sitting there alone and anxious. I'm not driving them anywhere or doing any medical stuff, just showing up and being a friendly face until they get called in.

I make anywhere from $30 to $60 a visit depending on how long the wait is, and I've picked up maybe 4-5 regular "clients" at this point. Genuinely enjoy the conversations too, some of these folks have wild stories. Never expected "professional waiting room companion" to be a real thing I get paid for, but here we are.

I keep seeing mixed opinions on this. Some people say cybersecurity is mostly about networking, systems, and critical thinking, and math barely comes up outside of specific niches like cryptography. Others make it sound like you need a decent grasp of things like probability, statistics, or even discrete math to really understand certain areas.

For people actually working in the field, how much math do you use day to day, and did it come up more as you specialized into a specific area like threat detection, forensics, or pentesting? Trying to figure out if I should spend time brushing up on math fundamentals or if that time is better spent elsewhere right now.

Back then it felt like there were thousands of random little forums, personal blogs, and weird niche sites you'd stumble onto. Now it feels like almost everything funnels through the same handful of platforms, and search results mostly show the same sites over and over.

Not sure if this is just nostalgia talking or if the internet genuinely consolidated that much. Curious if others feel the same way, and if so, do you think it's mostly algorithms pushing people toward the same places, or just bigger platforms slowly absorbing everything smaller over time?

Cloud computing feels like a massive field and I want to make sure I'm building on what I already have instead of starting from zero.

My background: decent networking knowledge (subnetting, routing, DNS, that kind of thing) and currently learning Python.

Given that combo, what would you focus on next? A few things I'm unsure about:

• Should I pick one cloud provider (AWS/Azure/GCP) and go deep, or learn general cloud concepts first?
• Does networking knowledge actually transfer well into cloud (VPCs, subnets, security groups), or is it a different enough beast that I shouldn't assume it carries over much?

Would appreciate hearing from people who came in with a similar background (networking-first) rather than a generic beginner roadmap.

I'm planning to get my CCNA soon, and I know helpdesk roles usually want some hands-on experience too. I heard there's some kind of simulator/game that mimics a real helpdesk environment (tickets, troubleshooting scenarios, etc.) that people use to practice.

Is this actually a legit/useful way to build skills, or is it more of a gimmick? could something like that ever actually go on a resume, or would that just look bad to hiring managers?

Curious if anyone here has used something like this and whether it actually helped in interviews.

I've been looking into how a lot of these "pig-butchering" romance/investment scams (the ones that start with a random DM, build trust for weeks, then push you into a fake crypto platform) actually get run, and it's worth people knowing this isn't just some guy with a laptop.

A large share of these operations trace back to compounds in the Golden Triangle region, parts of Myanmar (Myawaddy area), Laos, and Cambodia. Reports from journalists, NGOs, and UN agencies have documented large fenced compounds with high-rise buildings that function as combined workspace/dormitories for scam workers.

The disturbing part: many of the people actually typing the messages aren't willing scammers, they're trafficking victims. Young people from Nepal, Pakistan, Bangladesh, and India are recruited with fake "high-paying job in Thailand" offers, brought over on tourist/visit visas, then transported across the border into these compounds where their passports are taken and they're forced to run scams on quota, often under threat of violence if they don't perform or try to leave. There have been widely reported cases of people who couldn't hit targets being beaten, and workers being told they have to pay a "fee" to be released and sent home even after being trafficked in.

The people running these compounds are reportedly organized crime syndicates (many Chinese-run), and the profits are enormous, reports describe bosses living lavishly off the proceeds while workers are held in place.

The scams themselves are typically targeted using very specific psychological profiles, lonely, older, recently divorced, or otherwise isolated people are common targets because they're statistically more likely to stay engaged and send money.

If you or someone you know is talking to someone online who: love-bombs fast, eventually mentions a "guaranteed" investment or crypto platform, avoids video calls or always has a bad excuse, and slowly escalates how much they're asking you to send, assume it's one of these operations, not an individual scammer working alone.

Screenshots, report the accounts, and don't send anything, no matter how convincing the "proof" of returns looks.

From my last experience,

Manxe dherai tihar paxi ghumna auney haru, bato jam, hotel pack, sabai lang.

Jeremy's IT Lab has around 126 lessons covering the CCNA 200-301 topics. Should I complete all of them before taking the exam?

I graduated in Networking and IT Security, so I already have a decent networking background and I'm currently preparing for the CCNA.

For those who have passed recently, what other resources or practice would you recommend before booking the exam? Are labs and practice exams enough, or should I go through the entire course?

Just me??

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