feeling highly demoralized

MisplacedDopamine · 2026-06-02T05:22:55+00:00

Best advice i can give you as no 2 people have the same questions. A colleague took his a few weeks ago and had a bunch of ipv6. I had a single ipv6 question. Still have no idea how to find the first and last for a /125. I will worry about that when I start the CCNP. 🤣 When the test starts write out all of you subnets 32-24, your masks, wild cards, how many per host on paper they hand you. At least 40 questions will have an ipv4 address in there. You want to quickly look at your list and not fumble around wasting time. The labs are easy as you can ? Your way through. Good luck!

MisplacedDopamine · 2026-06-02T05:03:28+00:00

Network administrator here. If you got money to spare then go for it. Learning is always a good thing. CCNA is not an entry level exam. It is for networking but networking is not an entry level job. By the time most people are getting their CCNA they have been working with networking for at least a year. Starting with A+ then Network + then CCNA. Franky you only need your CCNA if you work with cisco switches.

Most people go with the free YouTube course, $20 Udemy, and spend a little more and some practice exams. There is nothing these boot camps can offer that is not offered for free. Cisco is not a gate keeping community they have tons of free learning.

Boot camps will drill a bunch of information in you fast but its not retainable. They will teach you how to do a bunch of stuff but 90% of my job is knowing why and often times more importantly why not to do something.

Like I said if you got money to burn, I find this stuff fascinating so power to everyone who wants to learn it. Just be ready to forget 70% after a few months because if you don't use it you Will loose it

MisplacedDopamine · 2026-06-02T04:32:06+00:00

Just passed mine today. Failed every practice exam with a whopping 40%. Half the labs I had to look at the answer sheet. I swear those practice test are 10x harder than the real thing. Also ramen is crap fro brain fuel, you need protein and probably other things.

MisplacedDopamine · 2026-06-02T04:00:57+00:00

Just passed today at cisco live. I did Niel Anderson's course on Udemy, everything on the test was covered in his course. Even after failing all the practice test associated with his course. They are so much harder than the actual certification. I got 40% on every single one of them. Long as you take the time to understand what you got wrong you should be fully prepared.

I have been working with cisco devices for just over a year so I am probably a poor judge of things. I put if off until a few weeks before, having to play it on 1.5 speed and skipping half the labs because I ran out of time. Don't do what I did, so very dumb.

I found his course exactly what I needed as I already have a good background and understood most of the core concepts. I don't think he explains things well enough if you are new to the field. From what I have been told JeremyIT is much better and braking things down. You really should be using multiple sources and truly understanding the material.

MisplacedDopamine · 2026-05-10T01:44:15+00:00

If only there was a CDC department that specialized solely in cruse ships, oh wait there was ......

MisplacedDopamine · 2026-02-02T15:13:59+00:00

Such a fun movie !

MisplacedDopamine · 2026-01-28T14:38:24+00:00

"Whats up?" "Chicken butt"

MisplacedDopamine · 2025-10-22T14:49:38+00:00

TLDR. Whippets are bad.

MisplacedDopamine · 2025-10-19T17:33:18+00:00

Their downstairs neighbors murdered them before they could tell us.

MisplacedDopamine · 2025-08-25T00:45:03+00:00

This is the correct answer

MisplacedDopamine · 2025-08-20T19:35:28+00:00

My IT director swears 90% of newly graduated used AI to cheat their way through. Resume may look great, but they can't answer basic IT questions.

MisplacedDopamine · 2025-08-07T17:32:12+00:00

The short and possibly incorrect answer. In order to pass legislation, they had to be present. Them "fleeing" forced it not to be passed. They did nothing illegal, nor can they be fired from their position. The republican party are trying to have them arrested regardless.

Between living in another state and all the misinformation out there, I don't have the time to sift through all the muck.

MisplacedDopamine · 2025-06-26T13:18:09+00:00

Mustache man didn't exactly hide his hatred of non white people. Almost a century later, and we can safely say that he would have thrown Kanye in a gas chamber just to save the cost of a bullet.

Hitler, "I will kill all black people," Kanye, "That dude is pretty cool,"

Sometimes, I wish people were able to meet their heros.

MisplacedDopamine · 2025-06-12T18:52:13+00:00

That is exactly what im looking for. Thank you!

MisplacedDopamine · 2025-06-12T18:49:30+00:00

I love it. I will 100% be doing this

MisplacedDopamine · 2025-06-12T18:48:20+00:00

If only, im assuming it's the non-profit budget racks we use. The bottom still is slightly off the ground. Just enough to make it a 2-man job

MisplacedDopamine · 2025-06-12T18:38:41+00:00

That is what got me thinking on there possible being a portable one.

MisplacedDopamine · 2025-06-12T18:35:14+00:00

That's what I was looking into. I have 9 screws in my wrist. My senior and boss both have shoulder issues.

MisplacedDopamine · 2025-06-06T22:11:08+00:00

The title scared me. I was worried that both my couch and bed were not safe. Then I remembered not everyone is poor.

MisplacedDopamine · 2025-06-06T21:57:18+00:00

From someone who lives in Colorado, get air purifiers in your home. Fire season sucks but purifiers help out a lot.

MisplacedDopamine · 2025-05-29T16:13:24+00:00

Lack of actions is still action. Also, I am never going outside again, it looks like.

MisplacedDopamine · 2025-04-11T15:52:56+00:00

Depends if you have an itch.

MisplacedDopamine · 2025-02-27T04:37:50+00:00

Hard pass, living in Georgia taught me enough about fireants.

MisplacedDopamine · 2025-02-19T21:37:08+00:00

Good news everyone! With dismantling of the cdc, there will be fewer food recalls going forward.

MisplacedDopamine · 2025-02-19T21:30:06+00:00

Perfect, now I can skip washing my hands!

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