Well, I took my CCDA exam (640-863) on December 23rd, and I ended up scoring an 80%. While needing an 82.5% to obtain the actual certification, I missed it by literally a question or, maybe a question and a half. While very discouraging at the time, I do feel good about myself now, having to take a certification exam on a subject I’m not schooled in, and never had any official trianing in, to still score an 80% is fairly good in my book.

The CCDA will not defeat me, I’ll be getting some money together and going to take it again after I study a bit more.

Now that I’ve got my feel for how the Cisco exams work, I feel much more confident about things, and plan to pass this one the next time. I should be taking my CCDA again and then my CCNA shortly after.

In other news, things have been going pretty well, the apartment is coming along nicely, getting a new dishwashter installed today. Christmas was a blast, I’ll have to post an update about that in the coming days. Flickr update expected soon as well.