{"id":985,"date":"2019-06-23T11:12:31","date_gmt":"2019-06-23T10:12:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.p2vpro.com\/?p=985"},"modified":"2019-06-23T11:12:31","modified_gmt":"2019-06-23T10:12:31","slug":"some-good-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.p2vpro.com\/?p=985","title":{"rendered":"Some Good News"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Actually, the day after I wrote the last post, I managed to fix my old bricked phone. It certainly helps if you read the instructions properly. That&#8217;s what we call a picnic error (problem in chair, not in computer).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So, I can use the tool now but I haven&#8217;t yet enough courage to try newer firmware on my newer phone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Also, I took the GCP Associate Cloud Engineer Exam on Friday and passed (at least provisionally). They send you a confirmation in about a week and I guess it would be unusual and somewhat unfair if they changed a provisional pass in to a fail!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The exam itself is 50 multiple choice questions and if you don&#8217;t know the answer 100% then it&#8217;s relatively easy to eliminate obviously wrong answers and make a good stab at the remaining 2 by carefully reading the question. In fact, careful reading of the question if the most important thing you can do &#8211; as important as revising!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">My main learning resource was Linux Academy. The lectures and labs were good and their practice exam excellent preparation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8230;So it&#8217;s a week later and I forgot to post this. On the plus side I can confirm Google confirmed my exam result!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Actually, the day after I wrote the last post, I managed to fix my old bricked phone. It certainly helps if you read the instructions properly. That&#8217;s what we call a picnic error (problem in chair, not in computer). So, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.p2vpro.com\/?p=985\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-985","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.p2vpro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/985","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.p2vpro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.p2vpro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.p2vpro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.p2vpro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=985"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.p2vpro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/985\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":987,"href":"https:\/\/www.p2vpro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/985\/revisions\/987"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.p2vpro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=985"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.p2vpro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=985"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.p2vpro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=985"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}