The load balancing exam hit my glass house with a solid brick and sent me crashing back to reality. All the 1's I earned so far, gave me a false sense of accomplishment and a consequential feeling of confidence. But this last exam just ripped my lovely cheerful painting to tiny little pieces. Looking back, it should have been easy. But I guess when you don't really use the Big IP software, 40 minutes of practical exam could be torture.
Although one final exam remains, I don't have to go all the way to school. This one will be about network planning and telecommunications platforms. This was like having the CCNA course compressed to just about 6 3-hour sessions, and this already includes laboratory work.
My instructor thinks it won't be an easy exam, and so do all of my colleagues. I won't be taking my chances on this one.
Let's see:
Command Line Interface;
Setting up console, telnet, and enable passwords for Router and Switches;
Setting up ip addresses for interfaces;
Static routing;
Dynamic routing;
VLANs and intra-vlan-routing;
Open Shortest Path First (OSPF);
Both versions of RIP;
Spanning Tree Protocol (STP) and Spanning Tree Protocol (RSTP);
Domain Name System (DNS);
Dynamic Host Control Protocol (DHCP);
Subnetting;
Classless Interdomain Routing (CIDR)/ Supernetting;
Variable Length Subnet Mask (VLSM);
Access Control Lists (ACL);
and Dijkstra algorith.
Looks like it's gonna be tough...
But what would Hanzo do?
