Ten years ago I passed the CCIE RS lab exam, now renamed CCIE Enterprise Infrastructure. I shared some considerations about my experience on LinkedIn, reposting here: Exactly ten years ago I was walking out of the Cisco office in Brussels after taking one of the most difficult technical exams of my career. It was the …

Today I passed the Cisco Certified DevNet Associate DEVASC 200-901 exam. Here's a quick note about my experience. DevNet certifications were announced this year at Cisco Live. I was busy on another track at the moment and added them to the backlog. Then some $bigProjects started, summertime priority went to outdoor …

Cloud computing runs on Cloud networks, when the cheese moves it's time to hit the maze! When AWS lauched the AWS Certified Advanced Networking - Specialty I immediately put in my ToDo list. After a year of light reading documentation and blogs about AWS I decided to focus more and do it for real. Preparation My …

Today I passed exam VCP550 and got VMware VCP5-DCV certification. Exam preparation For exam preparation I attended the official training that is mandatory to access the exam. The printed material provided with the training is good enough but I integrated with the great Mastering VMware vSphere 5.5 by Scott Lowe. The …

In really enjoyed to read all the blog post of people passing the CCIE lab exam over the years. I've found the stories very inspirational so now it's time for me to give back. I started working as a system engineer in 2001 supporting Microsoft Windows 2000 client and server for a bank. I had the opportunity to work …

I've passed the CCIE RS lab exam yesterday in Brussels, results arrived this morning:

After one week of training in Milan and passing the exam I've added an Alcatel-Lucent certification to my c.v.: "Alcatel-Lucent Certified Field Expert - ACFE - OmniSwitch R6/R6" OmniSwitch have some proprietary features, like mobile vlans, that may be very useful in some deployments. The new 10K platform with MC-LAG …

Passed Brocade 150-220 exam, another badge added to my c.v. Having a CCNP background and some CCIE theory knowledge I found this exam quite easy.On the exam blueprint just some QoS implementations, VRRP-E and Metro Ring Protocol are different than Cisco exams. STP and IGP/BGP are almost the same, and no EIGRP of …

Today I passed Cisco 642-983 DCUCI exam and it was a surprise to see two certifications on my Cisco curriculum: Cisco Unified Computing Technology Support Specialist and Cisco Data Center Support for UC Specialist The next step would be "Cisco Data Center Unified Computing Support Specialist" but since VCP is a …