Reddit reviews Cisco CCNA in 60 Days

One is networking and one is servers with some networking. Get your MCP and setup a home lab that has some Cisco equipment in it and VMs running on Hyper-V.

/r/homelab

Setup a domain in your lab. Work on Powershell commands. Use a Cisco router and a cisco switch.

Cisco Packet Tracer
https://www.netacad.com/web/about-us/cisco-packet-tracer

Six Free Cisco Labs
http://www.networkworld.com/article/2223176/cisco-subnet/six-free-cisco-labs.html

If you are interested in SCCM, check out guides here, https://www.windows-noob.com/forums/portal/.

Free CCNA training
https://learningnetwork.cisco.com/thread/15662

Microsoft study tips
https://www.reddit.com/r/IT_CERT_STUDY/comments/3v1pip/70410_70411_70346_tips_tricks/

Cisco CCNA in 60 Days
http://www.amazon.com/Cisco-CCNA-Days-William-Browning/dp/0956989292

For CCENT/CCNA, the labs can cover everything which is listed in the syllabus online for that test. For CCNA, your layer 2 stuff (i.e learning and forwarding, vlans, etc), and L3 stuff (subnetting, major routing protocols such as OSPF, EIGRP, inter-vlan routing, etc...). Labs, in general, could be some sort of troubleshooting scenario, where something is wrong and you have figure out the problem and fix it, or simply just figure out what the problem is. It could also be something where they give you a scenario with specs, and a topology, and they want you to configure the devices to meet the specs.

As far as resources which I used to study, I solely used this book called CCNA in 60 days. With this book you can either do the single test to get the CCNA, or the 2 test route, which it sounds like the option you're going for. The place I work at happened to have some old equipment they weren't using anymore so I had real hardware to practice on.

CCNA is worth getting, but whether it's worth the university cost is up to you.

I bought this book and will be doing it on my own. It comes with online videos, practice tests and labs.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0956989292