The Glory of a UPS

Since I have last posted I have passed my 70-290 exam.

I am now working on the 70-291 and CCNA 60-801 exams. The 70-291 seems to be mostly about technical knowledge and the use of Network Monitor.

Back when I passed the 70-290 I had registered for the CCNA-INTRO exam. I missed a PASS by about 2 questions (12 points or something) which was a bit of a bummer. So, now I am going to take the CCNA full-on in the next few weeks, as the exam completely changes in early November 2007 and I REALLY do not want to lose any study hours I have put in thus far!

So last week I migrated a box that had the role of file server. This basically meant that most of the company's important stuff was there, and everything else scattered about where there is space. In the throws of a last-minute rushed migration, I hooked up one of our nice new APC UPS's. Coincidentally the following week (This Monday morning!) the local power company decides to yo-yo the grid for the entire morning. The bonus? Our UPS works wonderfully. The drawback, everybody still experienced down-time at their workstations.

It has been a late night of studying for the CCNA. Now I am off to bed and ready to take on tomorrows onslaught of machinistic demands :-) Now if I could just learn how to master a PIX in a couple hours... That would bode well for my network overhaul project!