The other thing that you get is the forum. You don’t just get one post covering BGP fundamentals, you’ll find 123(!) articles covering pretty much all the sub-topics inside BGP. Each article has an easy to understand breakdown of the technology with an example you can run in the lab. If you search for BGP for example, you’ll see the depth of material included. Another useful feature is the Search box. So, the first thing you get is the courses. Pasting the example configs from Network Lessons into your lab configurations saves you time. It is possible to get other excellent text resources ( I always recommend Todd Lammle’s books – they’re what I used to learn networking way back in the day), but the thing with a book is you can’t copy and paste from it. This is perfect as an on-the-job reference as well as for study. It’s much easier to understand that way, and when I’m working in the real world it shows me the configuration I should actually be using. I don’t want all of the other possible options that are hardly ever used bundled in the same place in the same article.Ī great thing about is it gives the normal best practice configuration that you should use.
When I look for a configuration example, I want to know how this feature is actually configured in the real world following best practice. If you Google for pretty much any Cisco networking topic you’ll find that is also in the first page of results. The configuration examples will typically show all of the different possible options which can make things really confusing. The Cisco documentation is always very detailed but sometimes it can be toodetailed. If you Google for a networking technology it will typically be which comes up first.
So far I’ve not found anything on ITPro.Here’s the menu items: It could almost be described as “Netflix for the IT crowd” the only difference between this and Netflix is that there is at least a 50/50 split of things that I don’t want to watch on Netflix vs things I do. I would happily tell anyone I know that is in the IT field to take advantage of what the team do. The cost is fantastic as well at around 75p a day in the UK it is an expense that I can easily justify through the home budgeting department especially for the knowledge and skills that I am learning. The format allows for watching on mobile devices, Roku, the web site, audio only, and probably more as well, they offer practice exams and virtual labs but I can’t comment on these yet as I haven’t used them, that should be happening over the next week, I can only imagine that it is going to be as good an experience as the content. They are also human, they are happy to show you why they may make an error, or slip up to prevent you from doing it, I love this as it helps me learn what not to do as much as what I should do. I found myself wanting to watch the next episode of the course because it was enjoyable, not like waking up with your head stuck on the textbook, which is what happened on previous occasions when I’ve tried to learn. The 10+ hours that I watched of the MTA, which is so far the only course I have completed was fun to watch, the “edutainers” as they’re called bounce of each other in a conversational style, with an expert and a host, the host asking the sort of questions that you may want to ask along the way if you were there. Tonight I have started to look at CEH and server 2016. So I moved on to the next level of courses.
I worked through some of the more entry level courses (MTA) and by the end I was please to discover that I had learnt absolutely nothing, despite watching around 10 hours of content, it meant I was doing something right.
#Itprotv vs cbt nuggets vs pluralsight trial#
I signed up to the free trial and was amazed by the amount of content that was available to watch, it pretty much covers all elements of IT or at least the most relevant. Whilst this is not really a bad way to learn it has left me wondering if this is the best way for me to learn longer term. I’ve been working in IT for a number of years, but have learnt by osmosis from my peers and through my own experience.