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...

It’s been a while since I wrote something to the blog, reason being is that it’s not easy to juggle your time between too many things at the same time, yeah, even if you are studying a lot for it does not mean that you can write that much on your blog! My lab is in SJ, Oct 17th, I’m going to crash at a friend’s that lives in SF, I’m charging that whole week to vacation so I don’t get swamped into work related...

Read this, taking a training with Khawar was awesome! This guy never took a peek at documentation or anything, he just knew the stuff, hands down, and corrected himself whenever he came up with a mistake once or twice in a whole week, yes, 7 days of 12 hours of Cisco Security training at its best. On the last day we were talking and he persuaded me of doing the Security track now that I had built some momentum, it seemed right, so back from...