{"id":224,"date":"2011-09-06T08:02:26","date_gmt":"2011-09-06T13:02:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gotsteve.com\/blog\/?p=224"},"modified":"2011-09-07T14:54:21","modified_gmt":"2011-09-07T19:54:21","slug":"finally-got-my-ccna","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gotsteve.com\/blog\/finally-got-my-ccna\/","title":{"rendered":"Finally got my CCNA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/gotsteve.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/ccna_med.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-223\" title=\"ccna_med\" src=\"https:\/\/gotsteve.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/ccna_med.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been involved with Cisco Kit for some time now, but now I finally got my CCNA last week.\u00a0 My original mentality was one of irreverence towards the traditional learning path in general, inclusive of certifications.\u00a0 But I got thinking, and came to this conclusion:\u00a0 It&#8217;s good to have a baseline of\u00a0 how the vendor, in this case, Cisco wants it done.<\/p>\n<p>In the past, I&#8217;ve come up with what I call &#8220;Steve Jargon&#8221;.\u00a0 Steve Jargon is explaining things in the way I know, but not in the official manner.\u00a0 It&#8217;s worked quite well for me in the past; in fact, I believe it&#8217;s what allows me to quickly catch on to brand new content, with very little effort.\u00a0 But, how do you quantify it to the scholarly community?\u00a0 You can&#8217;t; in fact, you look &#8220;uneducated&#8221;.\u00a0\u00a0 What a shame; it&#8217;s exactly the opposite.\u00a0 But to deal with the perception problem, achieving a &#8220;scholarly&#8221; equivalent, is in my opinion, worth it.\u00a0 I never want to let someone have a foothold on my abilities, and I also want to be able to prove to any unknown Joe, that I know my stuff.<\/p>\n<p>So, I&#8217;ll continue the scholarly path, for the following reasons:\u00a0 The ability to provide correct jargon, and to make sure no one can have a scholarly argument.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been involved with Cisco Kit for some time now, but now I finally got my CCNA last week.\u00a0 My original mentality was one of irreverence towards the traditional learning path in general, inclusive of certifications.\u00a0 But I got thinking, and came to this conclusion:\u00a0 It&#8217;s good to have a baseline of\u00a0 how the vendor,&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.gotsteve.com\/blog\/finally-got-my-ccna\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Finally got my CCNA<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-224","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cisco","category-work","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gotsteve.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gotsteve.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gotsteve.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gotsteve.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gotsteve.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=224"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.gotsteve.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gotsteve.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gotsteve.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gotsteve.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}