Cisco Associate Certification Exams for Service Provider Operations

Associate level certification exams from Cisco are intended for IT professionals with intermediate experience in their field of expertise. These are not entry level exams, but are instead a step up from the basics. They cover the fundamental aspects of the focus area and validate you have the essential skills and abilities to configure, implement, maintain and troubleshoot the products or technologies in which your test.

With Cisco Service Provider Operations exams at the associate level, there are two tests you’ll be interested in learning more about: the 640-822 and the 640-760. Each exam validates a specific skill set in the Service provider focus area and can be beneficial in your career development path. Taken together, these two exams can also earn you a formal Cisco Certification in Service Provider Operations at the Associate level.

The 640-822 exam covers Interconnecting Cisco Networking Devices. It is the first part of a two part test series on this topic and can therefore be a stepping stone to other Professional level Cisco credentials as well. The 640-760 exam is associate level IT staff needing to validate their skills in Supporting Cisco Service Provider IP NGN Operations.

When preparing to take either of these exams, gaining hands on experience is crucial, so take every opportunity you are presented with for furthering your real world experience with Service Provider. You will also want to ensure you use a good cert exam prep package that includes practice test sessions like those offered by TestsLive.com and similar online providers.

Showing that you care makes you weak

This is what the great Harvey Specter said. That is why he does not show that he cares for his clients. He still cares, but he doesn’t show it. It will make you vulnerable, makes you pathetic. Be strong, don’t care, or don’t show that you care!

So if you want to be strong, don’t care at all. Just like what Harvey did in the mock trial.

Gotta love Harvey!

Damn! It’s 2012!

I missed blogging. I missed everything. I missed a lot of things. I missed miss lucy and miss candy! Oh darn. I haven’t been blogging for such a long time now. Anyway, I’m back in the world of blogging again! It has been a while since I lasted posted in this crazy sh!t blog.

Right now, I’m familiarizing myself in using WordPress 3.4.1. I haven’t been posting using WordPress for a very very long time. The latest version of WordPress that I’ve used is very 2.0. A lot of things have changed. A lot of everything have changed. But me, I’m still the same old me. I haven’t changed a thing.

Lyrics Jenny Dont be Hasty by Paolo Nutini

You said you’d marry me if I was 23
But I’m one that you can’t see if I’m only 18
Tell me who made these rules
Obviously not you
Who are you answering to?

Oh, Jenny don’t be hasty
No, don’t treat me like a baby
Let me take you where you’ll let me
Because leaving just upsets me

I’ll be around again to see the other men
They’re more adequate in the age department
I did not think you cared.
There’d be no problems here
But now you’re looking at me like you’re disgusted
Then I’m definitely waiting for you to smile and change your mind
Then I’ll say I’m sorry and I’ll wrap my arms ’round your body
I really hope that you forgive in a hurry
And don’t just ask me to leave

Oh, Jenny don’t be hasty
Don’t treat me like a baby
Let me take you where you’ll let me
Because leaving just upsets me

Oh, Jenny you are crazy!
First I’m perfect, then I’m lazy
And I was calling you my baby
Now it sounds like you just left me.
And it kills me!

My One Night Stand With Peter Petrelli

He was there, sitting in front of my computer, seemingly waiting for me to wake up – Peter Petrelli, clad in black, pissed.

“Get up, Jack.” He told me.

“Hey aren’t you Peter Petrelli?”

“There’s no time to ask. We have to save the world.”

“Ok, you’re being a bitch.” I responded wanting to give him a whole slew of rants about what I think about actors. But then, the house shook.

“It’s an earthquake,” I told him, and seeing that he’s in front of the window continued, “You cant stay there. If the house falls the shrapnels will kill you.”

(Trivia: I set my bed in the safest corner of the room just in case an earthquake hits while I’m asleep)

“It’s not an earthquake, let’s go!” He said in a nervous voice and started to run.

I tagged along until we reached a tunnel that resembled the Dust 1 Counterstrike map. Peter then told me to take the left path which led to the bomb site. So I did. I moved slowly as I overheard the ticking of a bomb (duh). And Further on, I was able to see it and its guardian, Sylar..

Darn it, these Heroes episodes never run out of twists. Good thing ’twas lunch time.

Turned aback from me, sitting on one of those picnic tables, Sylar was just about to eat his baon. He took a tupperware out of a bag and opened it. He was having rice.

The fast thinking Me immediately ran towards Sylar and pushed his head into the tupperware, pressing it hard intending to suffocate the wretched villain… with rice. (I know. lame.)

Seconds later, Sylar stopped moving. I hanged on just in case he was still alive.

Of course, he was.

“I dont know what you’re trying to achieve with this.” He said.

I realized the sonovabitch cant be killed through natural means and I knew instantly, sharp and fast thinking as always, exposed to the one man that could imperil me with such ginormous pain and suffering, that my only recourse was to run. I lifted Sylars head and snapped it just like they did in those kung fu movies hoping to break his neck. Then I ran as fast as I could knowing none of my TV-learnt tactics could ever work in real life (or, in this case, dream life).

Meeting Peter Petrelli awhile later, I told him that Sylar was after me.

He then replied to my distaste, “Thank you Jack. We had to divert him away from the bomb site so we could save the world.”

That other sonovabitch used me as bait to ..well ..to save the fucking world!?! I could have given Peter another bunch of rants of how this world is unfair and why I choose not to be the nice and angelic soul my mother wanted me to be. But, Peter Petrelli then flew away leaving me behind as Sylar caught up.

“Should I kill you now?” Sylar asked as blood started to drip from my head.

That’s when I woke up to a song I hadn’t played in a long time. Weird.