From: Yurchenko, Michael (michael.yurchenko@xxxxxxxxxxx)
Date: Mon Jan 15 2001 - 14:39:55 GMT-3
Hello,
Last week in San Jose, I have passed the lab on the first attempt and became
the CCIE #6695. I would like to thank all of the participants of this
mailing list for the discussions, suggestions and other posts that were
great help in achieving that. The postings have made me think of the things
I would not have thought of otherwise, and allowed for better preparation.
Besides this mailing list, I have used Doyle's book, Halabi's book, Cisco
manuals, doc CD, and Cisco's website. I also found the Internetworking
Technologies Handbook an incredible resourse, which, although does not
provide an in-depth view of the topics, does give you a very good general
idea of what is out there, and allows you to look in the right direction if
you're presented with the technology you're not familiar with.
You definitely want to familiarize yourself with the doc CD, and know where
to find most of the things. Also, in the earlier posts there are suggestions
on what to do, what configs to put on all routers before starting to work,
and how to keep yourself calm. That is the most important part - to keep
yourself calm and to be able to concentrate on what you're told to do, and
not on your worries that you may not pass. I was surprisingly calm, perhaps
because i did not even look at a Cisco book for 2 days prior to the test,
and my hands only shaked a little when I learned that I have made it to the
troubleshooting :)
I also have done almost every practice lab on fatkid's website, and spent
quite some time with 6 2500's in my basement, practicing stuff. It is
important that you can do basic things without even thinking, because time
is very precious on this exam.
Well, good luck!
-Michael
CCIE# 6695
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