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How Dangerous Distractions Can Become For A Network Engineer

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I am going not to talk about being distracted for an hour, a day or even a week. I am talking about year long distraction, the kind of distractions that deviate you from the person you wanted to become… one day. I was filling some applications online and I stumbled upon an exam paper issued by my high school: Lycee Pilote Ariana exam sheet – Graduation Year 2002/2003 It is the graduation year that followed mine. This exam sheet was taken by high school pupils, 9 months after my high school graduation in 2002. I took some minutes to contemplate the content of this exam sheet. Boy did I do this kind of stuff when I was younger? To be able to solve three Math exercises, two in Algebra and one in Geometry, all under two hours, with no “practice exams” available to us at that time, with all the fucking stress of a naive pupil back then, with no perspective into the future other than to study and hope for a better tomorrow. Yes, with no perspective. I was a regular guy...

How I passed the Cisco ACI Exam on The First Try

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You probably read about the Cisco exam update launched recently. A lot of folks are consequently studying harder to reach the deadline of february 23rd. 2020, let alone those who are studying for one-of-its-kind-exam; the Cisco ACI exam. As my CCNP status is also at stake I needed to pursue one exam to renew it. Since I did two trainings in ACI as part of work requirements and owned Cisco Press ACI books, it definitely makes sense to study for the CLDACI exam. Goal: I pass CLDACI exam successfully by February 1st, 2020. Time to achieve: 5 Months. Cisco CLDACI 300-475 Exam Blueprint My Collection of Cisco ACI Exam Study Material (Paid) Cisco Press: The Policy-driven Datacenter with ACI Packt Publishing: ACI Cookbook : good resource you can use to see how we configure things in ACI, because it includes a lot of screenshots. Cisco Press: Deploying ACI : This was my favourite and my main study ressource. Pluralsight, Fundamentals of Using Cisco ACI : there are two good introductory cour...