SNAF Scheduled for Monday

powerfool

Well, I scheduled it just a little bit ago. I need to have it done by Tuesday, so I scheduled it for Monday so I had a day to get my expense report filled out in time. Cramming this weekend. I have already gone through the CBT Nuggets once, but I am going to go through again. Then, I am going to play on my ASA 5505 here at home.

powerfool

Well, I passed this one... but not with as much clarity as before. I did not do a significant amount of preparation for this exam as I have a considerable amount of experience with the Cisco PIX and ASA. The two areas that I am weak, as I have not implemented them, are failover and downloadable ACLs.

I was very impressed with the failover capabilities, especially the active/active firewall setup where you create virtual firewalls on each hardware firewall and have each hardware firewall contain a single active virtual firewall and a single failover virtual firewall. The failover virtual firewall on one hardware firewall supports the active virtual firewall on the other physical firewall, and it is reciprocal.

Anyhow, I have until April 8th to prepare for SNAA. I am going to review some of the concepts on SNAF this weekend and then move on to the SNAA studies. After that, I have a CEH bootcamp, and then I have a solid month and a half to study the IPS exam.