Routing & Security

Well, after establishing a schedule and pinpointing the lab exam date, I am starting to feel a little less scattered. I am now more focused on the study path that I have layed before myself and will try my hardest to fulfill my goals. So, I plan to take the exam on August 31, 2010. I will be booking that date and will be testing in San Jose (I hope I sit in the same seat as PacketU – aka Paul S. – as I know he is going to pass the exam next month). I will be flying into San Jose two days before the exam to give me a straight day in the hotel room touching up with no interuptions.

I have also figured out holiday dates and am going to take at least 2 Fridays off every month to dedicate to labs. I will also be labbing on Sundays (from 6am to 2pm). This will be roughly 288 hours of rack time between now and then. I will have 184 hours of rack time remaining so I am hoping to fit some of those hours into other days if possible.

I will be putting in at least 2 hours almost every night (except Fridays) for reading and theory studies. I may also include some light configurations at this point. This will be roughly 12 hours/week. I will also be doing light configuration during my lunch break at work so this will be another 4 hours per week roughly.

The last thing to do now is to set the study dates for the topics in the lab blueprint. This will be a very rough draft at first until I get a move on some of the topics and see how things play out. I will adjust the dates accordingly. As well, I will be studying alongside my good friend Vybhav (tacack.com) where he has posted a similiar study schedule.

I will still continue to help out on the Cisco Learning Network as much as I can in the meantime and will hopefully get some youtube videos uploaded to share the technologies that are being studied. Thanks for following the blog, there are definately interesting times ahead…..