It has been awhile since my last update and as of today I have only officially studied about 10 hours, not quite where I expected I would be by now. I say officially because I don’t count the time I spend reading before I go to bed (usually GWGK or QoS book) because I find the retention rate to be pretty low when I read half asleep… I also don’t count hours per week I spend at work working with the technology.
I still plan to take the written test in mid February. If I had to estimate where I think my study hours will need to be by then, I would say somewhere in the 30 hour range. I haven’t posted many of the notes that I have taken from studying for the written because it has mostly been notes on theory, but I will post in detail soon.
I recently bought an ATA-186 from Ebay for about 30 bucks. They seem to be fairly simple to configure, but with not much hands on with them in the past, money well spent in my book. I also have VMware images of IPCC, CCM and Unity. I’m trying to convince myself to let go of some cheddar for a CME / CUE, probably a 2801. I don’t see a CAT6 finding its way to my house, so I think if I get the 2801 I will have a pretty good setup at home to run through scenarios.
