From: Mike Bausenwein (mbausenwein@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx)
Date: Fri May 05 2000 - 22:16:14 GMT-3
Well gentlemen, as has become tradition in the mailing list,
it is my turn to say I passed. I took the Test in Halifax on May 4-5
in Halifax. It was an interesting 2 days, to say the least. But in
the end I was rewarded with number 5865.
Here's some info on what it took to get here(and boy does it feel
good!!!!). I started the CCNA stuff in October 1998, Finished the
CCNP in June of last year, I took the CCIE written test while going
for the CCNP to avoid the new test. I took my first attempt in San
Jose back in January. This was my second attempt. I used the
cciebootcamp.com labs with at home lab consisting of about 8 routers.
The labs from Marc at cciebootcamp are excellent. They were just as
sick and twisted as the real exam. I took a class in December that
was very worth while, at ARS Limited, Bridges Routers and Switches
for CCIE. The instructor for that class was exellent, James Park.
Books I used are as follows:
First and formost: Caslow's Bridges routers and swithces
Next: Doyle's Routing TCP/IP
Halabi's INternetwork routing book
Halabi's white papers on BGP and OSPF
Hutnicks CCIE all in one lab guide: Not deep
enough, but good if you haven' t touched certain topics before.
Cisco press books on desktop protocols,
and Bridging stuff
My wife had the pleasure of turning off my routers tonight. She had
threatened to either mow my CCIE number into the lawn, or cut
the hedges into the number. She said throughout the ordeal over
the last 6 months of solid study, that she was going to start the CCIE
widows support group. I'd bet she would have a bunch of takers.
This list has been very good, some of the questions that people
asked really made you think.
Michael Bausenwein
CCIE # 5865 (GOD THAT FEELS GOOD TO TYPE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)
Senior Network Engineer
Greenwich Technology Partners
mbausenwein@greenwichtech.com
(973) 476-9697
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