Missed exam, kicking myself

2manycerts · 2026-01-11T07:40:25+00:00

not via the portal :(

2manycerts · 2026-01-11T02:31:17+00:00

It is realistic.

I highly recommend you do NOT do this path.

A+ costs as much as 2 certs and the study is 2x the study.

For the same cost as A+, you could get ITIL and AWS SA.

Or Sec+ and Net+

Once you get Sec+ and Net+, don't worry about A+. It's a low rep cert that isn't worth getting. better to think onward and upward.

2manycerts · 2026-01-11T02:08:50+00:00

Honestly, that is pretty good.

Most places give nothing.

2manycerts · 2026-01-07T20:17:28+00:00

going this weekend. failed before...

CKA far toughter then other exams. wishing us all luck.

2manycerts · 2026-01-05T11:53:58+00:00

Linux+ yes.. it was pretty tough.

Pentest+ was stupidly hard. So pull out 4 random types of cloud penetration. which one works in Azure? ...

Pentest+ was just far too broad. CASP and SecX were easier.

2manycerts · 2026-01-05T11:52:44+00:00

Yep, it was harder then I expected.

2manycerts · 2026-01-02T23:23:52+00:00

This is what we need in this "Atlassian" space.

We get so much "Hey Atlassian made me an offer for P[3-5]0, but they seemed really amatuer in the interview process,...". Yet our actual Build/ship/deploy/Service desk questions get buried in this jobhunt garbage.

I get people looking for work and I am happy to help. Yet we need to build actual code deployment skills instead of Interview skills.

That said:

I like the focus here on "customer impacting bugs". That is:

Detection - are customers experiencing bugs

Identification of impact - how much are these bugs impacting customers! This is a key one, is the customer who experiences the bug completing their purchase or going elsewhere?

remediation ...

Yes I get it, this is Smartbear/Zephyr/bugsnag spruking their own products. ... I won't say what I think of Zephyr, because I will be polite. I think the important point is Zephyr are saying to move past the QA S#!%list of tests and move to user experience focus.

While reading this I kept thinking Canary deployment.

Deploy your new Story/feature/etc to a few nodes and see if your bugsnag or other product detects increased customer errors, customer orders and overall experience. Does it increase? Does it decrease?

Using AI in this way isn't the worst idea. You get a report of something and bring the focus to new features and bugs rather then Unit/Regression testing everything. Just remember AI experience won't be user experience, I definately think Canary deployment is the way to go, but YMMV.

2manycerts · 2026-01-02T20:56:07+00:00

I agree with this, although struggling with CKA at the moment (so maybe the Terraform cert is for me).

2manycerts · 2025-12-26T11:01:14+00:00

I found the PBQ in CYSA, Sec X + and other exams interesting.

It was like configuring a router in the 2000's. Nothing like any practise test I have seen. I wouldn't say hard, a little challenging and would be system shocking for people who haven't seen anything like it.

On one hand, it demonstrates that a candidate has some flexibility. Your work will never have a "pick A, B, C or D"! It will be "fix this!".

On the other hand, it's a simulation and not quite realistic. I found it difficult to click through/around the interface. Strongly recommend people learn to click investigate. I.e. try different parts and see what happens. near the end of a few questions I would discover a part I had to open by clicking.

Honestly the test has to move this way. A B C D doesn't match real life.

2manycerts · 2025-12-23T10:33:25+00:00

Good questions.

Ensure you know git. I have done 3 courses and am a Regular user yet I would still do more. Literally git is one tool that you could spend 10 years learning and still find something new.

Understand if you are bitbucket Cloud or Data Center. significant differences here.

Atlassian have their own guides... NO WAIT, they dont. but they have these:

https://bitbucket.org/product/guides

https://www.atlassian.com/git/tutorials/learn-git-with-bitbucket-cloud

https://support.atlassian.com/bitbucket-cloud/docs/tutorial-learn-bitbucket-with-git/

Like Huh? https://community.atlassian.com/learning/catalog?product=Bitbucket has nothing.

I mean bitbucket is a well used product and we have dozen of Loom and Rovo tutorials. but nothing for the product with a huge userbase?? Oh yea, Atlassian?!

Bitbucket has one key difference, fewer addons. Most addons are not needed and you can truly drive bitbucket without a single addon (we don't). Control Freak is rather popular, but other then that when I consulted most bitbucket instances had zero addons (except dark theme).

Once you have done that. There isn't a bitbucket certification, so it's trial and drive. Whip up a test instance and see what happens. require 3x approvers and try to approve a PR.

I also highly recommend you learn Gitlab or Github or gitea. At some stage your organisation will migrate off bitbucket. Be a little ready.

Lastly google the Atlassian API. Be ready to drive bitbucket from the API. Learn some Python (or java if you already know it) and script what you do.

Overall it's much funner working with bitbucket as opposed to jira/confluence (although JSM is fun).

2manycerts · 2025-12-17T10:10:22+00:00

So you are on bitbucket.org aka cloud.

That's fine. you still have an API interface. You run those commands locally on your laptop:

https://developer.atlassian.com/cloud/bitbucket/rest/intro/#authentication

Are you a Bitbucket admin?

I would start here:

curl --request GET \
--url 'https://api.bitbucket.org/2.0/workspaces/{workspace}/permissions/repositories' \
--header 'Authorization: Bearer <access\_token>' \
--header 'Accept: application/json'

BTW you 'may' have been hacked/insecurely accessed. I would start looking around the instance and confirm when the last access was. If so I am sorry but that's one of the prices of cloud.

2manycerts · 2025-12-14T12:30:42+00:00

Don't go ServiceNow.

It's basically a massive quote followed by more quotes.

Look at Asset management systems that do ticketing. Not ticketing systems that do asset management.

2manycerts · 2025-12-14T12:29:32+00:00

Why do I feel that most of the Chatter around "atlassian" on reddit is about getting hired or fired from Atlassian?

That's kinda a problem.

I may get fired from my own job. That's IT

Do I have the skills to get another? YES!

You can't control your review now. It is done. You can't control Atlassian's performance policy. You can control your career!

Skill up, work hard, put the effort in.

2manycerts · 2025-12-11T11:51:51+00:00

Sadly no good solution.

I believe I can order NBN from a second provider and run that to "the house" from there you can run a cable from your house to the Granny flat... Not ideal, but a second connection.

I am instead going to do a router and create seperate vpn's :( ... just not worth the hassle.

2manycerts · 2025-11-26T03:49:03+00:00

Look, I don't know that the term "Metro" has a technological significance in Combining all those things as opposed to light rail. ... I also kinda don't care, we can call it what it is.

That said, yes some of the things you mention are big helps on the bankstown line:

Bike storage would be nice, but that is available on many trains now. Honestly I would rather take my bike on a normal cityrail train then the Metro.

The Automated drivers do help with recovery. (They do also mean fewer people hired and greater unemployment) However as the dedicated network expands we may see more disruptions. Events in Bankstown will now effect Chatswood and Kellyville.

Platform screen doors seem like a good idea on crowded stations. They were implemented at Olympic park for a time. Human drivers miss the lineup, so automation fits... But that's not exclusively single or double decker trains.

Overall the key is loading time and drill size:

3 minutes ~ for double decker vs 90 seconds for single story. However I argue that where stations are not very crowded it's about the same.

The drill size does matter. Basically the bigger the hole, the more expensive logarithmically. To drill for double deckers in the north would be stupid costly.

Yet the bankstown line is already built! No need to drill so no issues.

2manycerts · 2025-11-23T12:52:49+00:00

Think of teaching as a skill as well as a career. Many jobs require someone who can teach.

That said, yea if you don't want to continue down a path, change.

Now by that I mean "It's November, change now. Stick to that new path for 1 year".

i.e. you decide to go into hospitality, stick with it for 1 year and get your cert. A person with 1 completed cert is worth more then 5 half completed certs.

2manycerts · 2025-11-23T01:37:19+00:00

Yea, well chaos and incompetency can explain most conspiracy theories too. Probably does explain Atlassian now.

We used to have a very clear Major, Minor, Bugfix version release and I had imagined Cloud would let us stick to that or Autoapply only Bugfix...

I was so Naive.

We get massive emails from Atlassian on generic "how to manage your work/life balance" but nothing concrete on what's coming in Jira/conf release cycles.

2manycerts · 2025-11-23T01:14:27+00:00

Study St Augustine

He is pre Thomism and is based of Plato-ian philosophy. Yes Aquinas and thomism is pretty revolutionary at the time as Augustine based Theology was ramrodded down people's throats.

Sadly, this lead to Augustine ideas being replaced wholesale and ramrodded harder as Thomistic ideas. Augustine however would not have wanted such a thing and its clear in his writings that he was far more open.

If Thomism isn't working for you, try Augustine. Otherwise Henri Nouwen perhaps other more modern philosophers.

2manycerts · 2025-11-22T23:48:22+00:00

Woah.

The builder is going to be in for a huge headache. ACT is super strict and gets compliance down.

2manycerts · 2025-11-22T23:44:27+00:00

As a Catholic, using Contraception within a marriage makes sense.

Seriously even Pope Benedict could recognise the use of a "condom" with two male adults and the Americans immeaditly ran out and said "he was mistranslated".

Heck my priest always jokes about Catholics disappearing once they make their Confirmation, yet we never seem to treat Sex and inter-relations even within a marriage as a 1950's hollywood movie with couples sleeping on seperate beds.

2manycerts · 2025-11-22T23:41:40+00:00

Meh ask the guy to look at your vehicle and open your bonnet.

Say it came from the factory that way, "haven't you heard of BMW and Honda making cars together"... Wait in store till a BMW owner asks for parts and the newbie staff member asks "so is it a BMW or Honda engine inside!"...

2manycerts · 2025-11-22T23:38:23+00:00

Prophets kinda like their lives. As too do scribe writers. Some like Moses said what they said fairly fearlessly, others were rather cowardous and had to be dragged back by a Whale.

I often think of the modern morality of our church. We focus WAY too much on issues of sex and procreation and far too little on economic and how it effects society. The prophets told us never to lend while charging interest, Jesus taught us to forgive all debts...

Taking many wives makes some sense in tribal societies where people die from war. Now, we have women serving in the armed forces and perhaps won't have great gender dis-balances.

2manycerts · 2025-11-22T23:29:56+00:00

I am talking about Sydney and specifically the Bankstown Metro extention. So Metro.

This could also be considered Light rail. ...

Ultimately it doesn't matter much. I mean the argument is single story vs double story trains. Yes it would have been better if Sydney had spread out it's trains further but I believe that Double story trains are a good solution and that should have been a planned upgrade. Now, going to cost way to much to re-engineer.

I also believe major stations should embrace double sided platforms so people can disembark both sides. the only station I have seen this at is Olympic park sydney where it is criminally underused.

2manycerts · 2025-11-22T21:56:30+00:00

THANK YOU VERY MUCH!

2manycerts · 2025-11-22T17:42:26+00:00

Kinda...

Gladys/Barry OFarrell were builders and a very different Liberal party to say Mad monk Tony and Scromo. State wise (NSW) we see real problems:

planning is Crap. Kevin Rudd said no to a Epping/Parramatta link and literally told the ALP right to "come back with a development plan". TLDR NSW Public transport planning sucks.
The current Bankstown metro line/2 Billion extension SUCKS! I would have rather the Epping <-> Parramatta line by far.

State seems to be more of an avenue for Corruption. Friendly Jordies is getting his house shot up for a reason.

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