14 days left…

Already into the arse end of Thursday, only two weeks to go!

Since Monday I’ve gone through the switching and OSPF Volume I workbooks. As expected there wasn’t anything in there I was unfamiliar with or needed the documentation for.

I’ve also gone through Volume II labs 1 – 8, but instead of reading through the PDF’s I decided to watch the breakdown videos from start to finish. Basically I’d read the question, and then pause the video while I do the configuration in my head, and then unpause it to see if my solution was right. The advantage of these is that they are for real equipment, so they include the proper switching sections, plus Brian discusses other ways to solve the task. If there was anything I didn’t know how to locate in the documentation, or didn’t get right….I’d find, it and read up on it.

Then yesterday since I was having withdrawals from not doing mock labs I decided that I may aswell do them all before I sit my lab, so I booked in number mock #4. Glad I did too, I learnt a couple of things….mainly how much of an absolute pig it is!

I haven’t got my grade yet, but to be honest out of all the ones Ive done so far, this one had the most ambiguous requirements yet, so its hard to tell what I’ll get points for and what I wont.

It was heavy on OSPF, and mainly due to interpretation and not having a proctor, I probably spent too much time on trying to get it right when there were points to be rescued in all the other areas. Once I’d bit the bullet, I flew through the other sections and got everything done except one question. I had only 15 minutes left for a review that I managed to save 4 points (i think!).

The grade and comments will be interesting, because I have questions for the proctor already if he marks certain things wrong!! :)

Hopefully I get my marks tonight so I’ll post something tomorrow.