Passed Switch

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So I failed Switch by a pretty large margin back in December. But then I figured, might as well get back on the saddle and studied on and off over the next couple months. Today I conquered Switch by a pretty decent margin and it didn't even seem that hard (maybe because I studied my tail off the last couple weeks?!).

Materials used:
OCG
FLG
CBT Nuggets

I'd say I had a pretty distributed topic list, so know it all lol. I didn't feel like buying a lab to practice, so I did the limited Layer-3 stuff on GNS3 and did show commands on the production network at work.

On to Route!

Jason0352

Congrats on the Pass! With your materials used, what does "OCG" and "FLG" stand for? thanks

mattau

fantastic effort if you didnt even have a lab at home - wow

ocg - official certification guide
flg - foundation learning guide

SharkDiver

Great job. Congratulations!
Switch was the hardest of the three for me and alot of other people.
Good luck on ROUTE!

MrBrian

Congrats on SWITCH! And good luck on ROUTE! I'm testing on that one soon and then it's on to switch.. route is a fun one I really liked it.

networker050184

Congrats!

waragi

any ideas between the 1st and second attempt what was the difference interms of preparation, not enough theory or too little practical?.

ITtech2010

waragi wrote: »

any ideas between the 1st and second attempt what was the difference interms of preparation, not enough theory or too little practical?.

Good question!

This is great that you used the show commands on a production network. That's what i've been doing over the last few days. Thank god we're almost set with our lab. We have 3 3560 switches.

ASUSTeK

Congrats!

ddcengineer

Congratulations!

Shanman

Congratz!!!

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waragi wrote: »

any ideas between the 1st and second attempt what was the difference interms of preparation, not enough theory or too little practical?.

Well, that's a tough question because it was a little of both. The first time I went in, I felt pretty comfortable with the material. But when I got into the test, it was a bit more detail-oriented than I expected. I was pretty disappointed when I failed the first time, but then I went back and really hit the nitty-gritty details of whatever feature I was looking at. So not only did I refresh about how it worked (theory), I focused on the small configurations that can radically change the operation of the feature (practical).

Doing the show commands on my customer's various production networks also helped me to solidify the various commands in my head. During my study, I found out GNS3 wasn't very helpful in doing Layer-2, while I didn't feel like dishing out cash for Layer-3 capable switches. So most of my studies regarding configuration were through show commands or me typing stuff out in notepad.