I  believe certification is a very big business and important for newbies as an evidence they are going to do things according to the manual and make it work...

I always had that dream, a home lab. Actually I have one with Windows  10 pro  Laptop with 32GB of RAM - you really must get as much possible memory...

I always had and have fun when I could experiment, when I tried to have the things done and  hadn't had these guys holding strict to protocol only to protect...