Darby Weaver Weekly Report 05.08.2010 #2

Darby Weaver Weekly Report 05.08.2010 #1

Chapters 1/2/3/4 Progress Check:

It's been a busy week for me. It really has. In addition to taking on the CWNA certification, I was also given a copy of the Cisco Press CCNA Wireless book to review and perform a write-up for, and I have to re-study my BSCI/Composite (Route/Switch) exams in order to complete my CCIP certification this year.

Not to mention work as usual which I worked an over-nighter before taking a personal day off for my 17th Wedding Anniversary, and I had to get some minor repairs, updates, and maintenance performed on my automobile too.

Finally, this week has landed me two contracts that are both in the proposal stages for which is how I sometimes pay for parts of my lab, my certification exams, and all those loads of books and software I own.

Ooops! My full immersion program for the CWNA of Bust Challenge has led me to the www.cwnp.com forum and I have around 350+ posts there this month alone.

And I've been researching and constructing my Wireless Labs - I have 3 models that I am working on:

1. Cisco's Fat AP and Bridge model.

2. Cisco's SWAN model with the WLSE.

3. Cisco LWAPP model with at least 12 AS-1200/1250-ABG-INT/EXT APs + 4 Cisco 1131AG APs.

No I'm not done yet. I had to order some stuff to complete my CWNA Wireless Dream Lab like APs, Cisco ACS Appliance, 4GB DRAM/(2) 160GB HD upgrades, and my VMPS server, and a few more Cisco ABG Cardbus Wireless NICs - so most of this is in transit.

In addition to all of this I bought myself a decent Wireless library to add to my existing collection - mostly everything Cisco Press has on Wireless - so do I now. No CCNP-Wireless yet, but I'm told it is coming soon.

I worked out a set of at least 3 interesting sets of labs that meet each one of the three Wireless Lab models I've proposed up above.

Some of these labs are very detailed and very thorough. Remember I'm studying my way to the CWNE and CCIE Wireless along the way - so I'm taking my time to not take any shortcuts along the way.

I'm in real rush and I want to be very much at the expert level when I complete the certification exams and pass. I'm patient like an elephant.

I got a little behind in my self-imposed assignments but tomorrow I'm supposed to be up to date at least to Chapter 4 to stay on track with the other "CWNA Busters!".

1. Chapters 1-4 Vocabulary assignments.

2. Chapters 1-4 Review Questions assignments.

3. Chapters 1-4 Objectives and Summary assignments.

4. Chapters 1-4 Notes.

5. Chapters 1-4 Conference Call.

6. Chapters 1-4 electronic quizzes (the review questions all over again) till 100%.

7. Flash Card Decks 1-3 at least 1 time each per week.

8. Complete a re-read of each of the 4 chapters.

9. I've watched the 802.11n video offered by www.cwnp.com

10. Quizzes per chapter.

11. Flash Card Deck at least 1 x each ~350+ open-ended questions.

Note: I've been doing the old CWAP's assignments too while I'm taking the CWNA class to help me bolster the knowledge required for the CWNA.

Note: I've been working on the job with Cisco Wireless and so it has been keeping me fully submersible even if I did rely heavily on the CCNA Wireless and Deploying and Troubleshooting Cisco WLCs.

I think that is it for this week's review.

FYI - Briefs from our conference calls have been posted on the http://www.cwnp.com forum.