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That depends, but normaly 3 years

It's not a one time thing, you need to keep them up. If something changes you need to do an extra test (that also costs money). If you really wanna do it. Do it at the end of your schooling. Saves you a lot of money.

Interesting, the one I did (CCIE) was not easy at all. But that was some time ago and did not follow up on it. Because my current job i don't touch any cisco stuff. But did it change that much?

They are quite difficult. Because you need to learn a lot. It's a paper test and you can't use google or a book to anser the questions. You also need to learn the comments out of your head. Also they are not cheap and if you fail, you need to pay again. Personally I would just be good at it. And later in life try to get it on a company budget. It's kinda a waste to spend your own money on it. So a company later can say: Yes we have a certificate cisco network engineer. Maybe this is only a thing in my country ofc, No clue if company's even let you get certs on there budget.

Editing from home while the files are at your fathers company is gonna be a pain. Unless you have a direct fiber connection to the company, this is gonna be very slow. For the solution. You just need to setup a VPN connection to your fathers company with a site-to-site connection or have a vpn client on every system (Maybe look into openVPN). Then you need a simple SMB share if you wanna use it on mac and windows (if the gaming pc is windows). yes you can use that 10gen for it. It's not an heavy task to have a vpn connection and a file share.

This hurts my small heart, but yea you can. To add on the topic, if you are not sure you need it to make your day to day life easyer. Or save money on external hosting you don't need it. Unless it's your hobby ofc (but then you also know why you need it)

Tiny Core Linux, but i'm sure you could get a better notebook for free if you look around on the webs.

Did you set your windows firewall? Because you installed it on your personal computer right.

You can also do it with a simple ansible script. Then you don't need to setup a home wsus machine. But when the wsus machine is running it's easyer to control if the update get's pushed or not.

Just install all off them and try them out. That's how I learned way back. Try to install Proxmox and click around a little then move to freeNAS/TrueNAS or install that into a VM on proxmox. Then try ESXi with the opensource license (Still the IT standard for type 1 virtual environments). maybe even try the 30 day trail for vcenter when you have a host installed. I would stay away from platforms where there is no opensource or trail license. Untill you figure out what you need and what you can do with it.

They did that, i'm thinking (maybe a bit far) that windows fast boot is doing weird stuff together with an corrupted driver. Have you tried to disconnecting the SSD's and removing the GPU?

How does it show this error if the monitor does not show anything?

You could install a container platform on it, like a dockerswarm or any Kubernetes cluster (something like okd). Because with that it's easy to run a lot of gameservers (and to automatie if you want in the feature). It's also easy to setup because you can mostply pull the container images and deploy it. With that i would do RAID 1 for the more read performance or raid 10 if you can.

yes I just checked if i did order the cl16 and send an email right away.... No idea how I did not think of that before. No idea if they still need to swap them. It's been over 6 months.

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