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Well, your up late if you are taking an exam tomorrow......

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Good luck to you! Been there, done that, failed that exam several times! But, if you have subnetting down pat, you should be OK.

Crossfire wrote:Good luck to you! Been there, done that, failed that exam several times! But, if you have subnetting down pat, you should be OK.

Andy tried to explain subnetting to me once over a cup of coffee, and it gave me a migraine.

AndyC wrote:Taking my CCNA exam (Cisco networking) in the afternoon. After months and months of practice, I can now do binary and hexadecimal in my sleep, IP addressing and subnetting, VLANs, TCP/IP, switches, routers, wireless and WANs... yadda, yadda....

Once I get certified, I'll be job-hunting locally (and then be able to shoot skeet again - yay!). I'm cautiously optimistic about my chances for success, so wish me luck...

My son got that certification. He now manages the network operations on a military base as a contractor.

I never got beyond an MCSE+I, so I know just enough to know when to call somebody who really knows what he's doing.

Good luck - CCNA is a great certification to have in this job market.

The Annoyed Man wrote:

Crossfire wrote:Good luck to you! Been there, done that, failed that exam several times! But, if you have subnetting down pat, you should be OK.

Andy tried to explain subnetting to me once over a cup of coffee, and it gave me a migraine.

Subnetting cannot be explained over coffee. Understanding subnetting requires hard liquor.

Crossfire wrote:

The Annoyed Man wrote:

Crossfire wrote:Good luck to you! Been there, done that, failed that exam several times! But, if you have subnetting down pat, you should be OK.

Andy tried to explain subnetting to me once over a cup of coffee, and it gave me a migraine.

Subnetting cannot be explained over coffee. Understanding subnetting requires hard liquor.

Or hallucinogenic drugs.

Crossfire wrote:

The Annoyed Man wrote:

Crossfire wrote:Good luck to you! Been there, done that, failed that exam several times! But, if you have subnetting down pat, you should be OK.

Andy tried to explain subnetting to me once over a cup of coffee, and it gave me a migraine.

Subnetting cannot be explained over coffee. Understanding subnetting requires hard liquor.

It isn't so difficult once you've done it a few thousand times.

Good Luck Andy!

I will be praying for your success!

Saul

Good luck.

cougartex wrote:Good luck.

So how was it Andy?

I'm one of those learned it and then taught it to the Admins at MSN but never bothered getting the Certs type guys.
(There were no certs to get when I learned stuff, and never bothered getting them later, probably should have, and would have if I intended to keep working)
Subnetting is only tough until as you say "it clicks"
I've had to clean up access lists many times after new employees fiddled with things too

(Why can't any AOL user anywhere connect to MSN today? .... call RPB to fix it quick)

Glad I'm retired

Good luck, Andy. I hope that they get your class rescheduled before the "bloom is off the rose" so to speak. I can remember studying for my Project Management Institute certification exam and fearing that I would forget or mix up the formulas for things like the critical path calculation. I crammed them one last time in the car and then the first thing that I did when I got into the test room and was given the scratch paper was to write them all down again. That test was 8 hours long then (1993) and I was afraid I would forget them before I was tested on that section of the knowledge base.

Ahh.. Hexadecimal. I haven't used that in years. When we could program 360/360 mainframes from the front panel (the mod 65 had a full double word full of switches), I could do hex automatically in my head. Now, I'll bet you I couldn't do it if you held a gun to my head.