Woohoo, I passed the Network+ exam!

I wanted to finish by the end of the year, and when December came I realized I would need to take the exam before the kids finished school–because once they’re home all day every day, and with my husband planning on being home most of the days during the break as well, I want to be able to be present for the festivities! So I scheduled the exam for the day before their last day of school.

Then life got unpredictable, of course, and I ended up having way more work to do for my husband’s business (I’m his admin and tech support for all the business things). Test week crept up on me and I didn’t feel ready! So I added Jason Dion’s Udemy course and extra practice exams (The courses were on sale for $10 each and for me it was so worth it!) to my list of resources, doubled down on all the practice tests–going through them afterwards to see what I missed, which helped me learn a ton–and went through the exam objectives to make a good list of the things I was weak on.

I was kind of surprised how helpful it was to read the sections in the textbook on the things I struggled with. Subnetting was hard to really get down with the videos, but going through that chapter in the book brought it home for me! I was still consistently failing the practice tests the first time through, so on test day I was super nervous.

But guys, as I went through the test I was surprised at how many answers I just knew. And a few I worked through carefully, and one or two I ended up guessing. And it felt so good to get the Congratulations message!

Then I celebrated with some In-N-Out on the way to get the kids from school. ‘Cause what’s an achievement without a little celebration after?!