CIT/BAT Program

All users who have registered for the VMware Academic Program as of noon on October 6th have been verified and enrolled as students.  This should allow you to download software from the VMAP website.  Any new registrations should select the group Student when registering and verifying their account.  Adding your account to the student group should allow you to download software immediately.  If you have any problems, please contact Charles Almond.

Don’t forget, Tuesday, November 2nd is election day, and all college classes will be cancled.

Also, this week is the beginning of priority pre-registration for the Spring 2011 semester. If you are already a student, you can register for classes starting this week.

CIT 105 (CCNA1) will be offered Spring 2010. Normally we do not offer this course in the spring but due to the record enrollment we will offer it. The second in the Cisco Networking Academy series, CIT 106 (CCNA2) will be offered summer of 2010 in order to allow the spring semester CIT 105 students to get in sync with the regular series. This means that Fall of 2010 CIT 106 (CCNA2) students will be able to continue in CIT 205 (CCNA3).

WVU-Parkersburg’s Workforce and Community Education division now has both the Pearson/VUE testing and Prometric testing center online.  This means you can now take all of your certifications on campus!  Which one should you take first?  If you have finished CIT 106 (INTRO) or CIT 206 (ICND), I would recommend you take the Cisco CCNA exams.  According to the May Global Academy Update, we received the following notice:

“The INTRO (640-821), ICND (640-811), and CCNA (640-801) certification exams (all language versions) will be available to Networking Academy students until July 31, 2009. After July 31, 2009 vouchers for these exams will no longer be accepted.”

If you take the exam after July 31st, you will need to take the newest version of the exam, which is more difficult and covers topics that may not have been taught in your original class unless you took the CCNA Version 4 (Exploration) curriclum.