It was more than faith, because faith where networking is concerned, I have
very little.....I am equating that to practical
experience of which I have none.
Bookwise, for Xmas last yr, my brother-n-law gave me the sybex switching
guide. I had just passed the ccna. I read it
back to back twice and read all the mail here at this site....There are
several really really smart knowledgeable people
and occasionally they really get to talking and it is conductive to learning
at that time. Then about 3 weeks ago, a
friend of mine gave me the Tim Boyles book and after looking it over I saw
it included much much more information and
so on the similiar topics I compared notes. It was strange because on some
subjects, sybex would explain one thing
and then I would look in the cisco press and it had another way of
explaining or even adding to slightly. Enough to
make you want to read more. But because of the two explainations on whatever
topic, and the fact that they were
different is what made me seek a third souce and that was the online
university. And then I would look it up in the
cisco on-line university and start reading and comparing that. I also took
every online test I could find. Over and over
again. And then over again. I made myself charts that made things appear
organized to me. I am a comparer of things
and so this is exactly how I tackled this material. By comparing things....
And that cisco university online......You can get pretty deep in there.
Links go on forever. I get very immersed in that
site. It's my home page. I think that is one of the most interesting sites
I have ever seen or enjoyed.
Something else that is strange is the fact that I don't really know how to
do this. I only understand the things I know by
reading and comparing. What really works.... is in some other world from
me.
And that was my studies.
Jennifer Cribbs
6/12/2001 12:34:45 PM, "hal9001" wrote:
>Faith paid off then, Jennifer what EXACTLY bookwise etc did you use to pass
>and could you have bettered your choice of study tools if so then what. I'm
>currently building my library up for my run at it - all the subjects that
>is.
>
>Karl
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Jennifer Cribbs"
>To:
>Sent: Tuesday, June 12, 2001 6:37 PM
>Subject: passed switching test! [7:8207]
>
>
>> I did it....890 on my test and there was one question that I didn't even
>> answer. It had two screens and was a fill in the
>> blank where I was supposed to write in domain name, ip address and the
>vlan
>> numbers and name. I hit the wrong
>> button and went to the next question...darn... It was relatively an easy
>> easy exam and only took me 20 minutes.
>>
>> My scores were:
>>
>> CGMP 100%
>> Cisco Fundamentals 100%
>> Multicast 100%
>> Multilayer Switching 83%
>> Spanning Tree 75%
>> Switching Interconnectivity 90%
>> Troubleshooting 100%
>> Trunking 75%
>> VLAN Operations 66%
>>
>>
>> My next test will be the routing one. But first I want to figure out what
>> the heck falls under the catagory of vlan
>> operations. With no experience, I will be sadly lacking in skills if I
>> don't know that.
>>
>> Thanks everyone for all the wonderful discussions. That and tim boyes and
>> sybex and the cisco university helped me
>> achieve this. And my very very very patient husband.
>>
>> Jennifer Cribbs
>>
>>
>> Have a great day!!
>> Jennifer
Have a great day!!
Jennifer
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