Bear with me, I'm quite POed/disappointed
ramble/rant: on
Just missed my second attempt , I missed my first one about 5 weeks ago. Missed them both by 50 points, but in different areas. The first time the test crashed on me twice but I (stupidly) soldiered on and ran out of time. This second time I was afraid of getting a simlet/big Q right at the end like I did last time and running out of time, ended up with 12 mins to spare.
The same sort of questions kept reappearing VoIP and Wireless, which means I was missing them. When I get two questions in a row about what button in a GUI do you select for this feature on this tool, it bothers me. That's a freaking tool that you can lookup, its not underlying baseline knowledge. It seems like a stupid thing to put in a test.
And they kept drilling me about the QoS trust boundary and trusting/extending via the IP phone. This pisses me off because you don't trust anything out of your control! If you actually care about security you don't trust the IP phone, you do all the QoS classification on the switch itself. So the question is irrelevant!
I don't really know what I'm getting at other than I'm just really disappointed in myself and angry as I do this for a living. A little background - I'm the only net guy for a 400 person, 230m online retail company that runs a call center on a network comprised of almost completely L3 switches. The fundamentals of this test parallel most of what I do on a daily basis very closely. And everything works great, so when I fail (twice!) it reaaalllly eats at me.
rant/ramble (or is that angst/emo?): off
On a more productive note, I will be needing new study material as it's now obvious that this book (Cisco Press CCNP BCMSN 4th Edition) won't do me any more good. Anyone have suggestions? Specifically on the wireless portion, as a lot of the questions on the test were out of left field relative to what was covered in the book.
ramble/rant: on
Just missed my second attempt , I missed my first one about 5 weeks ago. Missed them both by 50 points, but in different areas. The first time the test crashed on me twice but I (stupidly) soldiered on and ran out of time. This second time I was afraid of getting a simlet/big Q right at the end like I did last time and running out of time, ended up with 12 mins to spare.
The same sort of questions kept reappearing VoIP and Wireless, which means I was missing them. When I get two questions in a row about what button in a GUI do you select for this feature on this tool, it bothers me. That's a freaking tool that you can lookup, its not underlying baseline knowledge. It seems like a stupid thing to put in a test.
And they kept drilling me about the QoS trust boundary and trusting/extending via the IP phone. This pisses me off because you don't trust anything out of your control! If you actually care about security you don't trust the IP phone, you do all the QoS classification on the switch itself. So the question is irrelevant!
I don't really know what I'm getting at other than I'm just really disappointed in myself and angry as I do this for a living. A little background - I'm the only net guy for a 400 person, 230m online retail company that runs a call center on a network comprised of almost completely L3 switches. The fundamentals of this test parallel most of what I do on a daily basis very closely. And everything works great, so when I fail (twice!) it reaaalllly eats at me.
rant/ramble (or is that angst/emo?): off
On a more productive note, I will be needing new study material as it's now obvious that this book (Cisco Press CCNP BCMSN 4th Edition) won't do me any more good. Anyone have suggestions? Specifically on the wireless portion, as a lot of the questions on the test were out of left field relative to what was covered in the book.