Which second time around I did and there is no better feeling than after all that hard work studying for all that time when you hit submit at the end of the exam and those magical words pop up “congratulations you have passed!” My social life was non-existent at this point as all I was focussed on was making sure the next time, I took that exam I passed. I then spent the next 6-8 weeks studying super hard, before and after work and on the weekends. Yep as you can probably guess I did not pass the first time – I think that in my first attempt I got around the 50% mark – which I will admit was very disheartening as I thought I had put in a fair amount of work to prepare for the exam but I think that if you ask anyone who has taken a Cisco exam before – there’s not much else out there like a Cisco exam, but once you had taken your first one and get a feel to how the questions are asked and worded you know what to prepare for. Not discouraged by this I realised that I was going to have to put a lot more of my own time into studying for this and after a few months I thought I was ready to take the exam. I soon found out as shortly into day 1 with little to none prior Cisco knowledge or experience, pretty much most of what the instructor was saying may as well have been Japanese and what I was being shown at first to me looked like I was getting ready to enter the Matrix! So, I booked myself onto a 5-day Cisco CCNA boot camp course thinking – how hard can this be? Well. I was now in my early 20s, still doing the wireless support role and had been advised “you should get your CCNA Routing and Switching” by a few of the senior guys at Sky – and at this point I had one eye on moving up to becoming a Wi-Fi engineer and knew this would be a good step in the right direction to enable me to move up to this position. From working in a support role for wireless I started to learn quickly what common issues there would be with Wi-Fi and more often than not it would come down to a cleaner unplugging the router to plug in their hoover or the magic of “can you turn it off and back on please” 😀 Fortunately, I was successful, and this is where my love for Wi-Fi really started. I did that for a couple of years and then applied for a role as a wireless support engineer at Sky (The Cloud). At the end of the training course you take a test and if you pass it they then start to recruit you out to their contacts – which I did and so my first job in the industry was to be a field engineer driving around to various shopping centres to fix different types of equipment such as hand held terminals (HHTs) and printers. So after that I went on a IT training course that taught you the basics for PC builds and networking. So how and what made you get into Wi-Fi? A relative of mine who was quite techie/ geeky showed me how to build and upgrade a computer when I was about 16 which I found interesting and then he showed me how to build and design my own website.
Hey, at the time of writing this post, I am 28 years old (Jan 2019) and have a love for all things Wi-Fi 🙂 Jan 2020 – I am super happy to announce that I have passed the CWAP exam and achieved CWNE & CWNT status! CWNE #369 I totally enjoy webinaring, podcasting, blogging, training and consulting 🙂 And that’s exactly what we do with my fellow Ninja Mac! Hey! I’m Matt Starling WiFi Ninja, CWNE #369, Director of Ekahau University & Product Marketing at Ekahau!
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