HI, theres a lot of controversy related to this topic, my company is thinking on me to take the astricon bootcamp, but want to know if it is really whorty, 3000 USD is a huge amount of money to spend, plus the hotel, food and transportation, ive already deployed some asterisk?s pbx and have experience with it using analog tdm cards and E1/T1, queues, conference rooms, IVR, ACD, inbound and outbound routing, VoIP providers like voipjet, etc. Do you think the bootcamp is a good option??? thanks -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.digium.com/pipermail/asterisk-users/attachments/20060112/22a0dce0/attachment.htm
On 1/12/06, blackgecko <blackgecko@gmail.com> wrote:> HI, theres a lot of controversy related to this topic, my company is > thinking on me to take the astricon bootcamp, but want to know if it is > really whorty, 3000 USD is a huge amount of money to spend, plus the hotel, > food and transportation, ive already deployed some asterisk?s pbx and have > experience with it using analog tdm cards and E1/T1, queues, conference > rooms, IVR, ACD, inbound and outbound routing, VoIP providers like voipjet, > etc. > > Do you think the bootcamp is a good option??? >As someone that took the dCAP exam, unless you're extremely comfortable with ALL aspects of Asterisk, I'd go for the Bootcamp. The dCAP written and practical covers pretty much everything about Asterisk. I was already doing some development with Asterisk and still found it challenging when I took it, so I'd recommend the bootcamp if you don't want to keep paying to retake the test. -- Bird's The Word Technologies, Inc. http://www.btwtech.com/
I passed the dCap exam at Astricon last year without doing any of the training and it's not easy, it would be very difficult to pass without having practical asterisk knowledge. You really need to know your stuff. However if you have experience with all the things you listed you should be ok. I would suggest you do some background reading on voip history - eg h.323 and mgcp, standards and the asterisk cli. Make sure you know how to configure things like iax.conf, sip.conf, zaptel,conf, zapata.conf, meetme.conf etc etc Craig ----- Original Message ----- From: "blackgecko" <blackgecko@gmail.com> To: <asterisk-users@lists.digium.com> Sent: Thursday, January 12, 2006 10:26 PM Subject: [Asterisk-Users] dCAp HI, theres a lot of controversy related to this topic, my company is thinking on me to take the astricon bootcamp, but want to know if it is really whorty, 3000 USD is a huge amount of money to spend, plus the hotel, food and transportation, ive already deployed some asterisk?s pbx and have experience with it using analog tdm cards and E1/T1, queues, conference rooms, IVR, ACD, inbound and outbound routing, VoIP providers like voipjet, etc. Do you think the bootcamp is a good option??? thanks --------------------------------------------------------------------------------> _______________________________________________ > --Bandwidth and Colocation provided by Easynews.com -- > > Asterisk-Users mailing list > To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: > http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users >
You should have no problem with the practical, however the written part of the exam does have a lot of standards (IETF) questions and the like. If you are very knowledgeable in SIP and other VoIP standards and are familiar with the config files you may do well. ________________________________ From: asterisk-users-bounces@lists.digium.com [mailto:asterisk-users-bounces@lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of blackgecko Sent: Thursday, January 12, 2006 9:26 AM To: asterisk-users@lists.digium.com Subject: [Asterisk-Users] dCAp HI, theres a lot of controversy related to this topic, my company is thinking on me to take the astricon bootcamp, but want to know if it is really whorty, 3000 USD is a huge amount of money to spend, plus the hotel, food and transportation, ive already deployed some asterisk?s pbx and have experience with it using analog tdm cards and E1/T1, queues, conference rooms, IVR, ACD, inbound and outbound routing, VoIP providers like voipjet, etc. Do you think the bootcamp is a good option??? thanks -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.digium.com/pipermail/asterisk-users/attachments/20060112/a5bea135/attachment.htm
I got all my whorts burnt off with liquid nitrogen - and it really hurt.
later,
PaulH
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HI, theres a lot of controversy related to this topic, my company is thinking
on me to take the astricon bootcamp, but want to know if it is really whorty,
3000 USD is a huge amount of money to spend, plus the hotel, food and
transportation, ive already deployed some asterisk?s pbx and have experience
with it using analog tdm cards and E1/T1, queues, conference rooms, IVR, ACD,
inbound and outbound routing, VoIP providers like voipjet, etc.
Do you think the bootcamp is a good option???
thanks
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