This time I went to RTP instead, stood at the Wingate hotel near the testing site, for 2 days before the exam, doing one full scale lab a day to study, and not studying on the day before the exam. Again, I felt pretty good to ahead and pass, but this time I missed the mark by 3 tasks instead of the 2 from my first attempt. I finished the exam in 5.5 hrs, but had a lot of problems with the vpn section, main reason is I didn’t practice the...

Well, I got to SF early, to a friends house, spent a couple of days just trying to relax and doing not much but trying one lab a day, and while I felt I was 100% ready the day before the lab and even though I drove from SF to SJ to get to know where the lab was and everything, to try to wear down some of the fear, shake off the deamons, oh boy was I wrong. In my previous 2 failed RS attempts I didn’t go feeling as prepared as I did this...