It came as a bit of a shock to me that my last post was on the 14th of August and several days have come and gone and I haven’t touched my studies. I have had to sit down and think about what has been going on that made this happen.
The company I work for is a big-ish Hewlett Packard house and about a week ago (14th of August) I was forwarded an email stating Certification criterea required for continued partnership at our level. The email also very bluntly stated that for partnership status to roll over without side-effects in Quarter 1 Certification had to be done by September (Whether this was beginning or end September is anyones guesse but I am going to try and play it save and assume beginning September).
Most of my attention has been focused on getting everyone else prepped, ready and geared for the Exam. This has included helping with study materials, creating in-house study material that can be printed (The HP material doesn’t allow for that) because some of the people don’t have internet connections or computers at home and translating some of the more Business Jargon / IT Jargon in the material into Afrikaans for those that aren’t as strong in English.
Along with this I am also trying to get myself up to speed as I will probably be writing all the technical tracks, sales tracks and marketing tracks to take load off other employees and hedge bets should there be failures. The content for the Exams aren’t rocket science but like any Corporate Certifications they are written in special “HP Speak” and the exam will not only test your abilities but also your knowledge of “HP Speak”.
Other than that my week has been totally normal, my Cisco studies have just taken a back seat to HP studies for a little bit.
That’s kinda unfortunate you have to put your Cisco studies behind the HP. I mean what could be better and more fun than Cisco, right?
I am in a similar situation but not quite as regrettable. I had to cut back on my BSCI studies to give more attention to learning about VPNs and IPsec/GRE connectivities. But at least it’s still within CCNP, as well as touching some parts of CCSP.
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I have found new respect and love for Cisco training. I think I needed this to find my passion and love for Cisco training all over again!
This HP training reminds me alot of Microsoft training with the overly gratuitous use of words like revenue, brand, customer, sales, margin, quantity, drive, satisfaction, number one, and best in every other sentence.
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Lately Ive been in the same position as both of you, having to spend free time learning more about AToM, L2TPv3, QinQ and EoMPLS… Most of which aren’t covered on the CCIE, or at least not on the R&S exams. I actually think its a good thing, it helps break the pattern of studying roughly the same old stuff over and over and gets me excited to get back on the CCIE train.
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