I’ve always had a love-hate relationship with networking. When I was in college, networking seemed transactional. I disliked the idea of building relationships for my own personal gain and small talk ...

When I say beginner's, I'm thinking a "person who's taken the MSCE Network Essentials test but doesn't work with Cisco switches/routers on a regular basis" beginner, as opposed to "um, what's an OSI ...