Everyone wants to be certified. If you're certified, you're bonafide. If you are bonafide, your value is amplified.
In order to get certified you could spend all kinds of time and effort studying, or you could find a boot camp and cram. Well, in 2005 I was in the latter group. I packed my bags and headed to Schaumburg, Illinois for a week-long Cisco boot camp in the hopes of being CCDA certified.
The classroom lessons packed tons of information into a tight period, and we all went back to our hotel rooms each night with homework to complete before the next day. Maybe you remember those ads where General Mills asked, "How do they cram all that graham?" I was asking how we crammed all that test prep.
Friday came and we took the CCDA exam, which had to be in an official test facility with a live proctor. And you can stop holding your breath, I'm pleased to say
