Posted by Aragoen Celtdra on 24th August 2009
I thank you all who have left me comments and personal messages on this blog and twitter offering prayers and encouragement about my mom’s condition. I’m relieved to say that my mom is no longer suffering and has passed on this weekend (late Saturday night) to join our Lord and Father in heaven.
The outpouring of love and support I’ve received from a few friends all over the world has been a source of great comfort for me. It’s amazing how simple messages of encouragement from someone you hardly even know or have never met can effect such a positive result.
Again thank for all the prayers.
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Posted by Aragoen Celtdra on 18th August 2009
It appears that my BCMSN exam will have to wait for an indefinite time. My mom’s condition has taken a turn for the worse and we are told she has only days to live. She was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer and the doctors have declared that it is terminal.
I’ll probably take a short break.
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Posted by Aragoen Celtdra on 6th August 2009
Just peeking in to let you all know I’m still here. Apologies for the absence. Most of you know that I have the BCMSN exam coming up and yes, that is the reason I have been MIA. Absence really makes a huge difference as I’ve watched my hit count go from an average of almost 300 clicks a day down to just around 150 – lower on the weekends and special holidays. And you all know that my confidence and my worth is based on how many hit counts I get on a daily basis. It’s the sun to my superman. 
So far I’m a little behind as far as what I had planned to have reviewed by this point in time. But that’s okay. I tend to do well and catch up on my reviews towards the last week when adrenaline is high and the fight mechanism in me is at its optimum level.
I got sick towards the latter part of last week and obviously, that hampered my progress over the weekend. I intended to cover a bulk of my reviews this past weekend but just didn’t have enough juice to keep it going.
So far here are the chapters that I have covered:
- VLANs – Fundamentals, operation, implementation/configuration, verification, troubleshooting.
- VLAN trunking
- VTP
- Spanning Tree (802.1D, 802.1W, 802.1s)
- PVRST+, MSTP
- STP enhancements such as Root Guard, BPDU Guard, BPDU Filtering, Loop Guard, UDLD
- Portfast, Uplinkfast, Backbonefast
Still left to go:
- Inter-VLAN
- EtherChannel
- CEF
- Redundancy (HSRP, VRRP, GLBP)
- Multicast
- Layer 2 Security (802.1x, VACL, etc)
- Voice
- Wireless
- There’s more but I’m too lazy to list all of them.
I was going through the BCMSN Study schedule on this blog and I realized how sorely lacking it is in details. So I figured after I pass the exam, I’ll make an attempt to organize this list with the dates I covered them and publish it on the schedule page for others’ reference.
Anyway, that’s all for now. I may or may not update before the exam so just keep checking your feeds. 
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