klonk
so after five years of being CCNA i finally took my first (real) steps into CCNP land, i was all set to throw in the towell, no cash, running out of time, no equipment blah blah and toxic came round and gave me a well needed kick in the raas, and plugged me in to gns3, so i got stuck in, and on saturday i got 877, which i was pleased with, i got 766 first time round…
as you probably know, the ccna needs re-certifying every three years, which kinda makes progression a must, last time i re-certified with the Wireless Lans for Field Engineers, this time i chose the BSCI or CCNP 1, i didn’t book my exam until the last minute, so i was a bit stressed about what would happen if i didn’t get it first time, my ccna was due to expire two days later so i re-booked that very night and my certifcation appeared held open until the result for my re-booked exam came through, a bit risky but i didn’t hae much choice as i’d left it so late.. unfortunately though, the cert bods went back and expired my CCNA, so now i gotta do it again… hey ho, back to the books
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November 10th, 2008 at 2:01 pm
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August 12th, 2009 at 8:07 am
Can you provide more information on this?
August 18th, 2009 at 12:51 pm
not sure what else to tell you really, don’t do what i did and arse about until the last minute.. seriously, if i had started working a week or even a couple of days earlier then i would have been fine, and i’d still be an official CCNA..
GNS3 was a godsend, without a lab setup or good virtual lab i don’t personally think you have a hope, well, you may have a hope, but you won’t really have a clue, while TestKing is great for cramming, and helping you blaze through the Questions, i personally feel that the understanding you gain from a good simulator makes all the difference, BTW, i tried the boson CCNP sim and i wanted to kill someone…
..using GNS was a dream by comparison, because to all intents and purposes they are real routers, the only problem is the need for a bit of a power-horse PC to run multiple routers, see my other post ‘adventures in simulation’ for deeper GNS3 business..