Hope everyone doesn't mind me broadcasting it but I've just passed the last exam I need for my CCNP. I got just under 99% as well (988/1000). So chuffed to finish on a high note. I've been utterly working my t*ts off for 18mths now to do this in a sensible time, and another 6mths before that for my CCNA and MCSA so 2 yrs really. I can honestly say that in all that time I've never gone longer than a couple of days without opening a book or doing some lab practice. I've been taking on so much work to build my experience up and have always been up to my eyeballs in my job and have then been spending the rest of the day/night studying. My CV is looking pretty awesome now so I'm waiting to see how much extra wonga I get offered in my current job and then will probably shop around a bit. I need to make the effort pay off to finance all the Zeds and the Rex I've had over the last few years :wack: I'm going to rest for a few weeks now and then look at some more security specific stuff.

Cheers guys :) Mike - Not quite cracked the CCIE but working on it haha, got a shed full of books to work through! been doing some firewall work recently as well to broaden my skills a bit more. No rest for the wicked.

ASA?

 

we just junked all our pix for Juniper SSG FW's, I ran into a bug with PIX 7 that cisco said was a software issue they weren't prepared to fix :S:S:S

and what exam did you have to pass to learn the licensing pricing model? I heard that makes you CCIE S.A.L.E.S,

ASA?

 

we just junked all our pix for Juniper SSG FW's, I ran into a bug with PIX 7 that cisco said was a software issue they weren't prepared to fix :S:S:S

Been getting a bit more familiar with Checkpoint. Saves me hassling the firewall team everytime I need rule changes or monitoring for projects I'm working on :wack: I've got a Pix to play with as well but not got round to it yet.

and what exam did you have to pass to learn the licensing pricing model? I heard that makes you CCIE S.A.L.E.S,

??! :smash: