Hello All,
These past 22 days have been GRUELING (except for last night). Studying 7 days a week, sleeping for 4-6 hrs a night, and repeating it for 22 days has worn out my body and my mind.
I took my final test today, Advanced IOS Unified Communications (VoIP) and passed with a 906. One of the hardest tests, however, I had the most time to prepare for this one.
In all, out of the 20 people who started only about 7 of them are going to leave with their certifications complete. This is still pretty good considering the last time I took my certifications, only 3 people out of 22 passed.
Cisco certifications are hard, very hard. I was reading in one college course that I could get my CCNA within a year. A YEAR!!! We do it here in a week. I was here for just over 3 weeks, and that covered 3 years of materials, they say.
I'd really like to hear from others on their certification experiences. For me, this is the hardest thing I have ever done. Some have shared with me...."I could go take all the tests in an afternoon, all 7 of them...because I know a lot about technology..only I have no incentive" I say HOGWASH! I don't know anybody who has ever taken a recent technology certification class/test who has come out saying, "That was easy!"
Anyway, it is done for another 3 years. Yep, 3 years is all the longer a Cisco certification lasts. There have been A LOT of new features and functions introduced in the past 3 years. While I was here, I was also remoted into work about 50% of the time during the day, and nearly ALWAYS at night. I changed roughly 1500 total lines of IOS statements. I changed a few routing protocols, removed Rapid-PVST+ and installed MST, put in VRRP, turned off some times, turned on other things. Overall, I am seeing about a 25% increase in performance.
So...goodbye from Ft. Lauderdale. It has been nice. Too bad we didn't get to enjoy the 70-80 degree weather.
Tom
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