From: Ouellette, Tim (tim.ouellette@xxxxxxx)
Date: Thu Dec 20 2001 - 11:50:21 GMT-3
Congrats!
I have 1 question for you. You had mentioned you spent an hour reading and
diagraming the lab. Was there not a diagram already done for you?
Tim
-----Original Message-----
From: Ben-Shalom, Omer [mailto:omer.ben-shalom@intel.com]
Sent: Wednesday, December 19, 2001 11:28 AM
To: 'ccielab@groupstudy.com'
Subject: CCIE #8540
Slightly after me fellow in San Jose as for some reason they forgot to send
me the score report
until I asked for it and just got it ...
I really don't have much to add to the previous 'did it' mail, it was a hard
3 month that I put into the (final) preparations, I only had 2 weeks full
vacation for this and in the rest of the time balanced my wife, 10 month old
daughter, Thesis in the University and my project at work somehow which left
me with no life to speak of.
I put together a 10 routers + LS1010 lab but got very little time on it.
My wife's support is probably the main thing that got me to finish as I did,
she went our of her way to allow me quite study time at home.
I did a one week preparation course with NetMastersClass which was better
then great, my thanks to Bruce and Val and all the other students in the lab
and especially to Tammy.
I found the lab itself to not be too difficult, could very be my luck in
getting an easy scenario, the test was more then fair and, as Jose kept
telling me when I came in with silly/paranoid questions 'everybody keeps
looking for traps, I tell you this test is straightforward' (or similar
words to the same event.
I got me congratulations note on the same day 2.5 hours after the lab was
over (which is probably why I got the first CCIE# of the bunch in San-Jose),
guess the proctor wanted to know if I was a moron who cannot read or just
paranoid (obviously the latter).
To some up some key points I can make:
1. I took a full hour before ever touching the keyboard, I think reading
through the whole exam and making a good diagram in that hour more then paid
off, you see something in one section and remark to yourself to do something
else in another sections that might be related then don't forget it and so
on, also it allowed me to do the whole thing once, I changed only one thing
to a different method later.
2. I did not look at the documentation more then once until all was done
(with almost two hours to go), then I used the CD extensively for testing.
3. I completely mishandled the one protocol I know best (do my thesis on),
never be too confident, thinking back about it I missed 2 elementary
statements and since this was the section I checked least did not see it and
lost 50% of the points, if not for the fact the rest of the test was very
good I would have failed for this, overconfidence is a killer !
That's all , happy to be able to send this mail and again, thanks to all the
people who helped me in this.
Cheers
Omer.
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