From: Earl Aboytes (earl@xxxxxxxxxxxx)
Date: Sat May 06 2000 - 04:19:07 GMT-3
Congratulations Mike!!!!
Earl
At 09:16 PM 5/5/00 -0400, Mike Bausenwein wrote:
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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Earl Aboytes
Senior Technical Consultant
GTE-Managed Solutions
800-483-5325 x8817
earl.aboytes@telops.gte.com
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