Angolan CCIEs: How many?

As I was writing another post I realized it’s been a while since a 2 year old could count he number of CCIEs in my country.

Jeriel Atienza and André Malungo were for a long time the only Angolan CCIEs, but today the numbers are quite different.

I do not plan to make this the Angolan version of the CCIE Hall of Fame page but you can  find below the current list of Angolan CCIEs that I could find: Continue reading

CCNA Data Center – My Journey

On April 11th 2017, well on the edge and on the last day before the old CCNA DC exams expiring I finally gog my CCNA Data Center certification, more than a year after starting the studies.

Was it hard? Yes, but no so much for the content.

The idea

My journey started with the decision late 2015, with some experience and after putting my hands on some Cisco Nexus switches I decided to go ahead with certification. Continue reading

CCIE program evolution

If you are preparing yourself for the CCIE certification and haven’t passed the written yet… you better hurry up because from July 25th 2016 there will be new content.

The networking world is changing and concepts like SDN, NFV, API’s, virtualization, DevOps and network programmability taking more and more space every day.

As a consequence of this change, Cisco announced end of last year the introduction of new content for all written CCIE exams.

The new content is called Evolving Technologies and has topics like: Continue reading