this is it..

Candidate: Andreas Rüdel

Exam: 640-802: Cisco Certified Network Associate

Test Center: Global Knowledge – Amsterdam

Appointment: Thu, 21 Feb 2008 / Start Time: 09:15

…my ticket out of customer service and into the engineering world. About time! :)

I realized today that it is getting serious when I did a “dummy” exam and encountered the following:

fig. 1-17:
R1# show frame-relay map
Serial0/0 (up): ip 172.16.3.1 dlci 100 (0×64, 0×1840), dynamic broadcast,, status defined, active

When analyzing Figure 1-17, what does the term dynamic mean as indicated in the output of the show frame-relay map command?
a) The Serial0/0 interface is passing traffic.
b) The DLCI 100 was dynamically allocated by the router.
c) The Serial0/0 interface acquired the IP address of 172.16.3.1 from a DHCP server.
d) The DLCI 100 will be dynamically changed as required to adapt to changes in the Frame Relay cloud.
e) The mapping between the DLCI 100 and the end station IP address 172.16.3.1 was learned through Inverse ARP.

and I had no problems pointing out the answer…
Anna just shook her head and said “well, it seems like you are an engineer now. I don’t understand any of this!”

I guess she is right. I guess I have my new passion :)