From: Michael Le (mmle@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx)
Date: Thu Oct 12 2000 - 00:49:38 GMT-3
That is awesome.
Congratulations!
Mike
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From: nobody@groupstudy.com [mailto:nobody@groupstudy.com]On Behalf Of
CKORENT@PILLSBURY.COM
Sent: Wednesday, October 11, 2000 7:00 PM
To: ccielab@groupstudy.com
Subject: CCIE #6288
I made it on my second attempt last Saturday in RTP. I have not been a real
active participant on this list, but I read it almost every day and got a
lot of
good information from it. I don't know if I have any useful insight to
give, as
most of what I would say has already been said somewhere in the archives.
For
those that are interested, here is my story.
I have been working with Cisco gear for 3 years now. Almost exactly a year
ago,
I decided to get my CCIE. I passed the written exam in February this year
and
took the lab for the first time in August in RTP. I did really well and was
the
only one to make it to the second day. Unfortunately, I made a couple of
stupid mistakes on the first day, so I barely made it to the second day.
This,
of course, meant that I needed to be almost perfect in the morning of day 2
if I
was going to make it to troubleshooting. I missed it by about 2 points.
This
was tough to take at first, because I was really confident that I would be
one
those people that passed on the first try.
I scheduled my next attempt right away and the earliest I could get was in
December sometime. I felt that I was at my peak and just needed a little
work
before I took the test again. A December date would make that difficult
because
there was no way I could stay at my peak for 4 months. Luckily, I switched
with
someone from this list so that I could get a date in October. So after a 2
week
break, I began studying again for my next attempt in RTP. I had put a lot
of
pressure on myself the first try which caused me to have difficulty sleeping
and
eating. I tried to have a different attitude this time. I did not worry so
much about passing...if I didn't make it, I would just try it again. I
think
this attitude helped, because I was much more comfortable this time. I only
missed one 3-point question on day 1, so I had a nice cushion going into day
2
(one other person made it to the second day also). Day 2 was a long one. I
think we had fairly new proctor, because it was 4 hours between finishing
the
morning of day 2 and starting the troubleshooting section. But, about
8:00PM
the proctor shook my hand and handed me my number. What a feeling!
Here is what I found most helpful for studying:
I had a nice rack of equipment to play with every night (9 routers). For
VOIP
and ATM, I bought a couple of days of rack time at the University of
Minnesota
CCIE lab.
I had two ISDN lines for testing dialup scenarios.
I went through all the ccbootcamp labs. Some of them I went through a
couple of
times.
I went through all of the fatkid.com labs.
I read through a lot of books over the last year...just about every Cisco
Press
book. The books I found most helpful for the lab were :
Doyle's Routing TCP/IP
Halabi's Internet Routing Architectures (I think the 2nd edition is easier
to
read then the 1st...better typesetting)
Caslow's Cisco Certification: Bridges, Routers and Switches for CCIE's
I spent a lot of time going through the Documentation CD and building
scenarios
on the areas I was weak in.
Some of the Networkers presentations were useful, especially the CCIE Power
Session from this year.
Well, that's about it,
Chris Korent
CCIE #6288
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