CCAI Training Cisco Certified Academy Instructors CCNA Cisco Certified Network Associate

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CCAI TrainingCisco Certified Academy
InstructorsCCNA (Cisco Certified Network
Associate)

• Chan Wai Kok (wkchan_at_mmu.edu.my)
• http//pesona.mmu.edu.my/wkchan
• Faculty of Information Technology

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how to get CCNA ?

• A) Networking Academy
• - (1) network academy student. 4 semester
• - each semester 9 weeks (min), 18 weeks (max)
• -(2) via Instructor Training. 22 days
• B) Boot Camp
• - 5 days -RM5000/ per person
• - on the 5th day, a similar CCNA trial exam is
  given
• - 99.7 passing rate
• C) Self study
• - 1 yr working experience in networking area
• - some dealing with Cisco product (configuration
  etc)
• - buy some Cisco Press book and study

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Difference between Boot Camp Network Academy?

• What do U want ?
• Paper or knowledge !!!!!
• Ask yourself
• 22 days training compress to 5 day
• what kind of quality R U talking about
• Student concern - duration of the course
• Boss concern - 22 day salary versus 5 day
  salary
• Boot Camp dont have Multimedia Course
• Dont have so many Exams.

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how to get CCAI ?

• (1) via Instructor Training. 22 days
• - sit for CCNA exam (Prometric or VUE) pass.!!!
• (2) via Fast Track
• - already have CCNA
• - attend 3 days Orientation and 3 day Fast Track
  (skill base exam). If fail then go for 22 days
  training
• teach for 1 semester at least
• must sit for CCNA exam (every 3 years) to
  maintain your CCAI

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Other certifications (CCAI/CCNA) issues

• Transferable between institution running network
  academy program
• no benefit if U leave the networking academy
• CCNA exam pay to Prometric
• Last recall is about US150/-
• 50 discount is given if score 70 on all four
  semester final on 1st attempt.
• Who is going to Pay ????
• Cost recovery Model

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Me and Safi (Regional Academy Instructor)

• Oct 7 to Oct 16 - Sem 3 4 training in NTU
  Singapore
• - Some of you got to take over during our absence
• Sit for CCNA exam (Nov)
• teach CCNA student 1st batch 2nd semester
• Teach another batch of instructors in Melaka
• Sem 2, 3 4 training can only be done with Cisco
  equipment (not arrive yet)
• Target 31 Dec 2002, finish all training for U
  guys/gals
• We can only be trained by CATC (Cisco Academy
  Training Center) instructors.
• Only me Safi are allow to train LA (Local
  Academy) Instructors (you guys)
• LA instructors can only teach student

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My Hope (expectation) on You

• Teach MMU student - CCNA (dean decision on who to
  teach)
• Try to integrate some part of CCNA into FIT/ FOE
  curriculum. Go through normal faculty procedure.
  E.g all FIT student by default will take CCNA Sem
  1. FOE ????
• Extra qualification in case you resign after
  Master/PHD
• Do some final year project on networking
• do some networking research
• Network Consultancy
• sponsor curriculum. Java, Cabling, Unix
• Offer it to MMU student and integrate it to our
  curriculum later
• etc ( tell me if you want )

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Career path

• CCNA -- CCNP --- CCIE
• Many others more, CCDP, CCIP etc. Kindly refer to
  www.cisco.com for more info.
• The next step (CCNP Academy)
• equipment - US60K, Cisco Sponsor US45K, MMU
  fork out US15K.
• Instructor training - RM50K per instructor via
  Network Academy Program (hotel, allowance,
  training fee. 40 days)
• 3 - 5x more difficult
• U may fail the exam
• NTU Singapore offer CCNP to student S8,100/ per
  student for 1 year (4 semester)
• For commercial training check out
• http//www.training-partners.com

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Cisco Networking Academy
Cisco
trains
Super -CATC
trains
CATC
Manage 10-30 RAs
trains
(RA) Regional Academy
Manage 5-10 LAs
trains
(LA) Local Academy
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Academy Details

• List of CATC
• NTU singapore, National Chiao Tung University
  (Taiwan)
• 1 each in China, India, Japan, Australia
• Malaysia (7 Regional Academy)
• USM, Unimas, MMU, UiTM, 3 polytechnics
• Academy should be run as cost recovery and
  non-profit basis
• Malaysia is a late started compared to Thailand,
  Phiphines
• Many started as early as 1998/1999

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Quatifiable knowledge after CCAI training

• Knowledge equal to average network engineer with
  1 year working experience
• know how to design, configure, maintain and
  trouble shoot a network of about 1000 nodes
  (using Cisco router ) without much difficulty
• some knowledge in dial-up, ISDN, frame-relay, ACL.

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Rules regulation

• You may be better than me in networking
• -- may not 1 2 hear my boring lecture
• So, lecture attendance is optional
• If U can pass online exam skill based exam, U
  can come late but dont disturb the class
• Orientation GLN - open book exam
• Other close book
• Once U finish the exam, U leave. Cannot stay back
  to help others
• No copying during online exam
• NO helping during skill base exam
• U can discuss b4 the exam, once exam question is
  given out no more discussion.

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Schedules Others

• Exam Invilligilation. Please let me know. So that
  I can schedule the online skill base exam
• Others commitment (meeting etc let me know as
  well)
• Sorry ??
• What I tell U is ?
• What I think U should know and U 1 2 know ?
  Hopefully
• But all this wont come up in your exam.
• If U havent read anything on Orientation and GLN
  please do it now.
• If U havent read anything on Sem 1 please try to
  do something during the week ends.
• Any Questions b4 we start ?