Maitta! Always - Daily Amazing Confusions -

2017 was the year I made small but steady progresses. I acquired several entry level certificates of information technologies and business etiquette. Also I felt much better in this year than in the past 2-3 years. There were much less chances to spill or fail to measure hot water, when I drip coffee. On the other hand I have gotten a bit weaker in outside noises. There were a little more chances than the last years to use earplugs when I sing worship songs. I also doesn't try to hide the nature that I'm prone to jump up and down when I was uneasy at a worship service, but I took a few minutes of timeout and went out to the hall, and wait until I feel much calmer. I will go on in 2018, the coming year, piling up small efforts and I hope I will be able to report substantial progresses.

I use frequently a Japanese learning site "ping-t.com" to prepare for information technology exams such as CCNA or LPIC. I started the studies for these exams from almost zero knowledge. For example, for CCNA, I hardly knew about differences between IP address and MAC address. Using quizzes of the learning site helped me greatly to learn the knowledge required for the exams. I owe greatly to the learning site the successes of the tests, especially to its selection of knowledge and its design of practice quizzes. There are two types of quizzes there, multiple choice quizzes and typing quizzes. Also I have learned that rote learning can help me understand technology, when I don't mistake what to learn by rote. If I had learned by rote only the answers of multiple question, I wouldn't have passed the test. I learned tables of commands, options, and paths in the description for the questions which I can see after I answer and click the "check (correct answer) b...

Yesterday, I acquired LPIC Level 1. I'm having a few glances of LPIC Level 2. Most people may want to take the 201 exam first as the natural course, but I'm thinking of studying for the 202 exam first, because knowing further about web servers and other application servers matches my interest. Now I'm having a glance about LDAP server, which is new to me and is asked a lot in the exam. I took a brief look at some practice questions and viewed a few videos which explain LDAP and configure LDAP servers.

I made it finally. In the morning, train delayed with heavy snow. 10:00 a.m. was due. I had planned to get on a train starting at 8:35 a.m., left home 8:22 p.m., saw the lights of level crossing blinking. The train of 8:20 a.m. was delaying. I wanted to catch that, because otherwise I wasn't sure I would get the venue in time. The delay turned out to be about 20 minutes and arrived at Kita-Sendai station a few minutes past 9:00 a.m. From there I took the subway. I got to the venue at 9:35 a.m. Time, IDs were OK, and it was time for the exam. I put my properties into a locker according to the exam policy, and got into the room. The procedure was the same as how I took the LPIC 101 exam. I sat in front of the exam PC, read terms of the test, accepted them, and then I started answering questions. In a few minutes I started answering, I was surprised because I saw a question which I was asked also in the 101 exam. From then on I answered every question carefully, checking quest...

LPIC 102 exam for tomorrow morning. I have prepared a lot but still there are many things I'm not sure. However at least I can easily answer correctly practice quizzes, so all I have to do is take the test tomorrow and see the result. And, to have enough sleep, not to catch a cold, and to be sure to bring valid IDs

I have to hurry up, pace up my action in 2-3 days, preparing for an appointment and LPIC 102 exam.

No time to lose for LPIC 102 exam. Tomorrow night, I have an appointment. The exam is in 3 days. The time left is tonight, next morning and the morning and night after tomorrow.