Archive for January, 2009

Short post…lab

Well, I took the lab exam yesterday in San Jose.  I’m going to make this post short as I’m still waiting on my results.  I guess I may not hear anything until Monday morning.  I really had no trouble sleeping at all before the exam, but last night I found myself waking up to nightmares [...]

Day before exam

Wow, it’s really almost here!  I can’t believe it.  I spent the last 2 days at Narbik’s bootcamp.  Most of the information was a nice refresher, but he has also added some new content.  It was definitely time well spent.  I didn’t attend the afternoon/evening session of the class because I went back to my [...]

Interesting week

It’s been an interesting week so far here in Pasadena.  I unfortunately did not make the first day of Narbik’s class due to being sick.  Yeah, what a time to get sick, right?  At least it wasn’t the day of the exam!  That WOULD be bad. 
I arrived in Pasadena around noon on Saturday and began [...]

Confidence slow in coming

I’m reappearing on the grid for a short time before my lab (yeah, 10 days out)  After my first couple 8 hour practice labs I was feeling beat up.  I was getting above or near above passing scores, but I was taking way too long.  My speed is now WAY better because I don’t linger [...]

Practice Labs…work in progress

I’ve now been through 5 - 8 hour practice labs and I think I’m starting to get a little bit faster.  I still seem to be wasting WAY too much time on small tasks in the IGP & BGP sections.  By the time I reach multicast, IP Services, etc I am down to about 1.5-2 hours of [...]