It's been a crazy couple of months recently. With what began as a temporary lockdown & mandatory work-from-home has now become a question of "Will we ever return to the office"? Luckily I have a decent home office setup, as my job is already primarily work from home.…
Hey there! First thing’s first – Hope all is well with everyone. The past few months have seen all sorts of craziness going on in the world. I’ve been lucky in the sense that my current job role was already well set up to make an…
Things That Helped One of the big things that helped me was just the experience I had prior to starting on the CCIE. My experience going into the studying likely gave me a huge step up compared to if I tried the exam earlier in my career. If I tried…
In the weeks leading up to the lab exam – I felt very unsure of where I was at. On one side, I felt like I was doing pretty well at most of the practice labs I was working on. But on the other side, I felt like I didn’…
Written Exam Finally in early 2019 I gave up on trying to gauge where I was at – and figured it was time to just give the exam a shot. I had already been studying for almost a year and a half, and I was craving some definitive way of…
Now that we’re firmly into 2020 – I finally decided it was about time to get this posted. I actually wrote most of this shortly after passing the exam, but it just sat unedited and collecting dust since them. In about a month, most of the exams will…
Update 2020 / 05 / 19 – I’ve added a video above that walks through the steps detailed in this blog post. If you’re using the ‘Basic’ Wireless setup, you may see an error when trying to apply the policy: “switch 1 dbm wireless Use…
Over the past year and a half (and still ongoing), I’ve burned through a handful of books and other resources while working toward the CCIE. I know quite a few people have already dumped out their recommended reading lists – but I figure it’s still worth…