#307 overall
CCNA
Udemy
2 recommenders · 2 threads · recommended in 2 years, 2014–2022 · score 1.5
A video course on Udemy covering the Cisco CCNA networking certification material, taught by Chris Bryant according to one commenter. Viewers can pick and choose individual videos.
Commenters point to Chris Bryant's Udemy CCNA course as high quality and a cheaper alternative to official Cisco training, with one suggesting skipping the Cisco-specific parts for general networking basics.
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I’d have a look at something like an Udemy CCNA course, but stick to the generic stuff, and skip the Cisco-specific things - this should get you enough of the basics that you can pick up the rest. Udemy is good here in that you can pick & choose from the videos.
I think it could, as always, depend on the quality of the teacher. I am not speaking about Cisco courses, but I recently attended a Microsoft course and the course was provided through recorded material prepared by Microsoft, with a local trainer that could be questioned in case of need (this was due to the fact that I was attending the course in English and the training center was normally organizing it in another language). The Microsoft "recorded" teacher knew his stuff, but the local teacher was not that expert because he was acting as supporting teacher for many many courses (we were 6 people in the class, each one doing a different course: AD, Exchange, SQL Server etc..) So I missed a bit of interaction AND real-life stories that you typically exchange with other students and with the teacher as well. Fortunately the course was paid by my company, but I came back thinking that maybe paying 29$ for a month of Pluralsight would have been a better investment than spending 2000$ for the official MSFT course (even better subscribing for a full year of pluralsight and having the possibilities of having many more additional training videos).
Having said that, for Cisco I'll suggest you to check the Chris Bryant courses available on Udemy [no affiliation], I bought one of them (CCNA) few months ago but just right after I was hired in a non-networking position (and in a company that is not using Cisco) so I never finished it, but the quality seems to be very good and it is confirmed by the number of comments on Udemy and also checking certification forums like Techexam.net. It seems that he also replies to questions inside Udemy, so the interaction is clearly present.