Peter Noble, CCNA

WOOO HOOO!!!! I PASSED THAT STUPID TEST!!!! Ok, the CCNA exam is not a stupid test, but I am so glad to be done with it that it's not funny.

For all you to hear my story of success, I left work today to head to lunch and take the CCNA. My test was at 1 PM in the valley, so I figured I could get a quick bite before the test and relax a bit.

12:10 PM I find the testing center, flip the truck around to the pizza place I was going to eat at, parked it, and walked in the restaurant. Looked around and realized that this place only makes whole pies to go. OH NOES! No food?!?!?! So, I walk outside and find this Tex Mex place across the street, hop in the truck, pull what is probably an illegal manuever on a 1-way street and head in.


12:15 PM The waitress just noticed that I had been sitting at the bar for 5 minutes. I order the special for today: a Chili Dog. The waitress informs me that it will be a few minutes, and walks away with my order.


12:20 PM The waitress informs me that they ran out of chili (they might as well have run out of hot dogs too). At this point, I'm nervous because I'm supposed to show up to the testing center 15 minutes ahead of time...

12:30 PM The waitress brings this monstrosity of a hot dog. This thing has chili dripping off the sides and through the plate. She sets it down with a plop on the counter which creaked under the weight of the beast on top of it. I see $3 chili dog on the menu, I think "Hot dog with some chili on top". This was more like Chili, onions, cheese, jalapenos, and a a little bit of hot dog in with it all.

12:45 PM I strut my way into the testing center, thinking about my aching tummy and all the wonderful things Tex Mex makes you do.

The only part of the test where I completely froze up was this really awkward NAT configuration problem they throw at me. They gave me a bunch of internal and external addresses then said map them. However, the number of addresses implied that it should be static translations, but it also implied that it could be dynamic. I completely bombed the question because I never got the network working the way it was supposed to. Other than that, I did pretty good.