Study

Happy New year… Welcome to 2026.

I actually failed my blog aspirations for 2025.. I didnt post a single time. Work and real life issues took up my time in 2025. I also didnt progress much in the first 9 months study wise.

“All that matters, is where you are going” is a favorite quote of mine.

With that an update as well as a plan to move forward.

I have now finished Narbik’s Volume 2 Service Provider workbook. It took a little while longer than I had planned. This is mainly because i took some time off during the holidays (well, studied less at least 🙂 ).

Welcome to 2011.

I hope that you have had time to enjoy the holidays and all the festivities that come with it.

Personally i have been doing alot of work stuff. Moving data centers is no small task when the customers want constant uptime. Of course for some customers this couldnt be done as they dont have fully redundant systems to switch over to. However a large part could be done very fast, but they all needed to be done at night and preferably during the weekends.

Its been just over two weeks since my lab attempt.

I have basically done no studying at all during that time.

Time has come to get back in the game. I do have alot of work to do in the near future, but i will still try and do all the studying i can squeeze in.

I wanted to give a status update on my study progress as it stands on February 28th 2010.

At the moment im still hitting Narbik labs. There are alot of good ones, and i havent even hit the troubleshooting labs yet. This weekend has completely wasted though. Mainly because of my birthday this friday, and moving my girlfriend back in with me (we had two appartments for her to goto school in a different city). Now back to a single rent!! Put on top of that the fact that im still not over the flu by a longshot. Im coughing, my throat hurts and im constantly nauseaus.

I had a very long day at work yesterday, but still felt like doing a lab when i got home.

My next lab was about fallback-bridging. Yet another topic i know nothing about 🙂

So today/tonights plan calls for figuring this technology out. It doesnt seem overly complicated to configure, but its more of a task to understand the technology.

The link below is an excellent read from INE that you should really take the time to read.

I am working on a post about the OSPF forwarding address, as well as some MPLS stuff. Stay tuned 🙂

I just wanted to get the link out there.

Lately I havent been keeping up my chores on the blog. Theres a good reason for this.

I have really been studying hard to do the written exam again. Done lots of practice tests, a lot of technology focused labs on especially some edge areas where I wasnt 100% sure of things. And especially a lot of Cisco documentation. Every time I reached a snag I looked up the documentation from Cisco and read through what it was supposed to do and how.

I am happy to report that I managed to pass the CCNA exam yesterday. What a relief.

Here it is:

Hopefully Maibrith passes her exam today as well!!

Update: She did pass it!

Since starting my now almost infamous Cisco course, I have become very interested in ways to learn new material.

How do you plan out a semester, how do you organize a study schedule, where do you study? what kind of tools do you use to get you through it all?

Been doing alot this week. Mainly been studying some more. Couple of important chapters, I need to get down really well.

How do you get hard information into your brain, and get it to stay there, and understand it for good? Im not sure, but Im starting to think that writing down things manually really helps me personally.