I am taking the ICND2 at 3 o clock today...

pogue

I did not get to go through the Boson test exam for this test as thoroughly as I would have liked, but I am in a time crunch, and need to start my MCSE as soon as possible. If I did not take it today, I would not be able to take it until Tuesday, and with as long as I have been out of work, an additional 3 days of study for the next exam is priceless.

Here's hoping that I can get it knocked out today. I feel more comfortable going in though, as I know what to expect from the exam environment.

Russ

jmc012

pogue wrote: »

I did not get to go through the Boson test exam for this test as thoroughly as I would have liked, but I am in a time crunch, and need to start my MCSE as soon as possible. If I did not take it today, I would not be able to take it until Tuesday, and with as long as I have been out of work, an additional 3 days of study for the next exam is priceless.

Here's hoping that I can get it knocked out today. I feel more comfortable going in though, as I know what to expect from the exam environment.

Russ

Good luck Russ !! Let us know how it goes. I need to get mine scheduled.

/usr

Best of luck to you! I haven't even looked at the Boson practice exams for ICND2, but I found the ICND1 exam to be quite similar to Boson's practice. I was happy I went through it thoroughly.

LarryDaMan

Good luck. I'm sure you'll knock it out of the park!

For the first time in my life, I rescheduled an exam to an earlier date. Tomorrow at 11:30! Time to finish up this CCNA.

pogue

Passed with an 876.....

Meh.

The score reflects my being overloaded with Cisco studies for the moment and just deciding to take the test before I was completely ready, just to get it over with.

I was thinking I was a bit weak on WAN configuration and interswitch comms, and I was right, as I scored a 66% and 73% in those two sections, respectively.

What was not fun was when I kept mistyping a command in one of my sims, and could not figure out why I was not seeing what I was supposed to on a show command. I think I had to retype the command above 6 times, lol.

Russ

captobvious

Score doesn't matter, good job!

+1 for a Friday pass!

genXrcist

Congratulations!

mikej412

pogue wrote: »

Passed

Congratulations!!

JavonR

A pass is a pass, good job!

pogue

On to MCSE studies now. Trying to get a spare PC ready to run some sort of virtual environment. I have heard I can run a bare bones OS on a system, and then install a VM type installation and then install multiple VM units on top of that.

It's al a little confusing right now, but I am sure I'll figure it out..

Russ

adeetee

pogue wrote: »

On to MCSE studies now. Trying to get a spare PC ready to run some sort of virtual environment. I have heard I can run a bare bones OS on a system, and then install a VM type installation and then install multiple VM units on top of that.

It's al a little confusing right now, but I am sure I'll figure it out..

Russ

hey congrats!!! I am preparing for icnd2... any tips?

pogue

adeetee wrote: »

hey congrats!!! I am preparing for icnd2... any tips?

Make sure you know your frame relay, EIGRP/OSPF, and access lists.

The format is very similar to the ICND1, so make sure you know your "show" commands..

Good luck!

Russ

blackninja

pogue wrote: »

On to MCSE studies now. Trying to get a spare PC ready to run some sort of virtual environment. I have heard I can run a bare bones OS on a system, and then install a VM type installation and then install multiple VM units on top of that.

It's al a little confusing right now, but I am sure I'll figure it out..

Russ

Congrats on the pass. I myself have just started the MCSE and I would get VM workstation 6.5. You need a good host computer with lots of memory (I've 6GB). Try youtube for a video.

pogue

blackninja wrote: »

Congrats on the pass. I myself have just started the MCSE and I would get VM workstation 6.5. You need a good host computer with lots of memory (I've 6GB). Try youtube for a video.

I got a 2 year old Alienware gaming laptop with 2G of RAM, and I installed Virtual PC 2007 on it before I read your response. Already got a working Server 2003 installation running inside a VM, and I am currently working out how to connect it to my laptop's internet connection.

Cool stuff!

Russ

blackninja

pogue wrote: »

I got a 2 year old Alienware gaming laptop with 2G of RAM, and I installed Virtual PC 2007 on it before I read your response. Already got a working Server 2003 installation running inside a VM, and I am currently working out how to connect it to my laptop's internet connection.

Cool stuff!

Russ

There is a feature in VMware workstation called "Snapshot". Take a snapshot then do the lab, if you break/mess it up. Just revert to before the snapshot. This the main reson I choose Vmware.

I couldn't even try Virtual PC as it won't run on Vista Home Premium and I refused to get Ultimate or business.

LarryDaMan

Congrats!