Passed the written, a lot tougher than I expected. The exam was more heavy in certain areas than I had anticipated. When I finished the test I thought I would pass or fail by a question or so but it
235
That is the number of hours put in as I take the written tomorrow. Only studied some in the morning nothing during the evening. Time to hit the bed to be prepared for tomorrow.
INE deal on rack rental tokens
INE has a deal on rack rental tokens. Got myself some more and I now have enough to keep me busy for a couple of months and combined with Dynamips I can probably do most of the labs in the
Final rush to written
Doing a lot of practicing with Anki reviewing the concepts from the CCIE cert guide. Will do a final review of notes I have and then some more Anki and Boson practicing and that should get me ready for the
Spaced repetition with Anki
As many CCIE candidates know, the blueprint is massive and gaining knowledge in all areas and then remembering it is difficult. Sometimes when you learn something new an old subject is no longer kept in memory. The problem is that there is
CCIE – 350-001 booked
Written test is now booked, next tuesday is the magic date. Doing some questions in Boson and the cert guide and going through my notes one final time and hopefully that should be enough to earn a pass. Time will
Dynamips – findings
So I have made some more findings about Dynamips Running more hypervisors is not more effecient than running one, will load balance over cores anyway GNS3 is just a hassle, stick with Dynagen if you have a set topology This
Dynamips – loadbalanced hypervisors
As most CCIE candidates know Dynamips runs much better on Linux. Many of us run Windows at work or as our primary OS and might be afraid to mess around with partitioning and dual booting. There is a safer alternative
Practicing with Boson
I’m doing most of my practicing right now with this wonderful product and the cert guide. I have to give Boson a lot of credit for this. It has a lot of questions, they are very well written. The explanations
2010 in review
The stats helper monkeys at WordPress.com mulled over how this blog did in 2010, and here’s a high level summary of its overall blog health: The Blog-Health-o-Meter™ reads This blog is doing awesome!. Crunchy numbers A Boeing 747-400 passenger jet