From: Roberto Iannuzzi (twinturbos@xxxxxxxxxxxx)
Date: Thu Dec 13 2001 - 21:10:50 GMT-3
Congratulations! You earned it. Good luck!
----- Original Message -----
From: "Asbjorn Hojmark" <Asbjorn@Hojmark.ORG>
To: <ccielab@groupstudy.com>
Sent: Thursday, December 13, 2001 6:05 PM
Subject: CCIE #8525
> Group,
>
> I guess it's my time to write this, as I passed the lab on my
> second attempt in Brussels today, 13dec.
>
> First, I should thank my wife Kirsten who's been extremely under-
> standing for the last couple of weeks where all she's gotten from
> me has been comments about route-map that didn't work the way I
> expected and stuff like that. Boy, preparing for this does put a
> tax on your personal 'network'...
>
> I've been in the IT business since 1990, where I started out as
> a COBOL programmer, but have been working with internetworking
> since sometime in the early 90's. I worked for an enterprise
> customer and they weren't very interested in certifications...
> But changing to working for a gold-certified partner certainly
> changed that.
>
> I started the certification race back in 1999 by passing CCNA and
> shortly thereafter CCNP. The CCIE written was done by early 2000
> and my first attempt at the lab was summer 2000, where I missed
> by a few points.
>
> After that, I changed jobs and have been working a lot with IP
> Telephony (CallManager and stuff) and really haven't done too
> much 'IOS time' for the last year and a half. My preparation for
> this attempt started about a fortnight ago, where I set up my
> lab with 6 routers, a Catalyst 2948G, a Lightstream 1010, and
> another router for terminal server and frame switch. Since then,
> I've been hitting the command line pretty hard, working about 16
> hours a day.
>
> For those interested in the differences between the 2-day and the
> 1-day lab, I find this one harder. I missed the troubleshooting
> part, which always was one of my strong sides, but the pressure
> on time is simply unbelievable. I know some people have commented
> that they had plenty of time, but I guess they must be a lot bet-
> ter at this than I am. There were lots of tasks that I simply
> configured blind without having time to check anything. And there
> was a task or two where I didn't have time to configure anything.
>
> I haven't used books very intensively. I do have the All-in-One
> CCIE Lab Study Guide and the Caslow book, but haven't used them
> much. One book I'd recommend to anyone remotely interested in
> BGP is Internet Routing Architectures, which is very well written
> and pretty easy to understand, even for someone who don't do BGP
> much. Highly recommended.
>
> The greatest resource of information for me has actually been
> the Net, with WWW, Usenet and mailing lists such as this one.
> I've used those a lot throughout my career, and can say without
> hessitation that without all you great knowledgeable people out
> there, willing to share information, I surely wouldn't be where
> I am today. Thank you very much! I hope I'll be able to return
> just a little bit to the Net community.
>
> Another good source of information is obviously colleagues, if
> you're lucky to be working for a company that has many technical
> people. Speacial thanks should go to Anders Mussegaard, who's
> been my training partner for this and our first attempt. I do
> hope he passes, but he hasn't received his e-mail yet.
>
> Finally, I think I should thank Nycomed. They manufacture the
> strong painkiller Ibumetin, and without it I wouldn't have passed
> today. The last couple of days, I've had a strong pain in my neck
> and back, and basically have been eating the pills like candy...
>
> But I'm rambling.
>
> FWIW,
> -A
> PS: If my spelling is bad, bear with me. English isn't my native
> language, and I don't think Ibumetin and champagne go very
> well.
>
> --
> Heroes: Vint Cerf & Bob Kahn, Leonard Kleinrock, Robert Metcalfe
> Links : http://www.hojmark.org/networking/
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