Well,
I wasn’t ready for the exam. I went in fairly confident, but slightly psyched out. I ran through all of the chapter summaries and Q&A in the exam guide last night, reading sections that I wasn’t sure on. I hit up my notes, and fired up some of the gear to double [...]
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Our company was given the go ahead to be purchased today. The next few months are going to be an interesting transition. I’m anxious about it.
Otherwise, I’m continuing with studies every day/night this week. I’m going to sit BSCI on Friday morning. Even if I don’t feel like I’m 100% ready [...]
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My wife took the baby with her to another baby shower today. She left me alone so that I could get some studying done. I dunno what happened, but I’m going to call today a wash. I struggled to focus on anything, and stay with it. I made it through another [...]
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I made it through all four of the trainsignal OSPF videos from Trainsignal. I will say that I am completely impressed by Chris Bryant’s teaching and have been very happy with the products so far. My only issue has been the brief explanation he gave on stub areas/NSSA. I found his explanations of NSSA, specifically, [...]
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Alex Skinger from Trainsignal contacted me last week, and asked if I would be interested in checking out the BSCI/BCMSN/CCNA training materials from them. Until this point, I’ve been relying solely on Cisco Press books and reading things on the internet. I figured I’d give the VBT a try and see how I [...]
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I think I’m coming down with a stomach bug/flu. I’ve been sick all weekend, and was very lethargic all day.
Even still, I made it through the route manipulation/redistribution chapters and labs today. The labs only covered redistributing RIP into OSPF and OSPF back into RIP. nothing with RIP/EIGRP, or EIGRP/OSPF, so I [...]
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Made it through IS-IS and the labs this evening. My wife’s done a decent job of keeping the kids out of my hair long enough to get me through all of this.
I also looked through the Network Academy curriculum and chapter test for IS-IS. I ran across a question that I didn’t see [...]
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I hate it when I cut cables wrong and don’t check them before I need to use them. I cut a T1 x-over cable for the T1 WICs I have sitting around and didn’t bother to check it. I went to use it tonight and I have the wrong 4/5 pin pair. [...]
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I finished up with the OSPF sections in the books yesterday. The Network Academy curriculum has a few specific labs on OSPF with Frame Relay. I’m going to use the remaining WIC-1DSU-T1 and WIC-2MFT-T1 cards with the additional 2600’s I have to create a smaller mini lab for the rest of the OSPF/Frame [...]
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I got through Chapter 4 of the Authorized Self Study guide today and completed the lab scenarios listed in the book. I’m starting to become more and more concerned about the labs provided in the book. The EIGRP chapter covered stub configurations and authentication, but there was nothing in the labs to cover the configurations [...]
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