From: Vikas Gupta (vicky_gupta1803@xxxxxxxxx)
Date: Sat Feb 09 2002 - 00:25:30 GMT-3
Good Job Ravi! Congratulations!! Take care of your
fingers man...Enjoy your trip to India.
Vikas
CCIE No. 7137
--- Ravi <s_ravichandran@hotmail.com> wrote:
> Guys,
>
> I made it . It gives me a nice feeling to be a CCIE.
> This is the mail the most
> I dreamed to write. I am so happy to see the
> four-digit number behind my
> name.
>
> I passed the lab on 22nd of last month. As everybody
> said, current lab format
> is tougher than the two-day format, though the
> contents are the same but one
> has to be extremely fast, not only in typing but
> also in finding right
> solutions for each question.
>
> It would have been an impossible task without my
> Instructor Harith. All
> credits goes to him. I took all my Cisco
> certification courses CCNP, CCDP,
> Voice, Security etc. at his school called Winnet
> Systems at Toronto location.
> It is an excellent place to learn.
>
> I used my home lab with 10 routers, and I had
> unlimited access to routers and
> switches at my School Winnet Systems (about 40
> routers, ATM switches, Cat
> 3920, Cat 5500, ISDN simulators, POTS simulators
> etc.) I would highly
> recommend Winnet Systems to anyone who is looking
> for a school that can
> prepare well for CCIE certification.
>
> I concentrated only on CCIE preparation for last 6
> months. Spent about 10 to15
> hours a day on either lab or books or Cisco site.
> Cisco.com was more useful
> than any books in the final stage. I am a book
> lover; bought most of the books
> that has CCIE written on them. But liked Jeff's
> TCP/IP vol I and II, Parkhurst
> BGP, Caslow's Bridges, Routers and Switches and
> Internet Architecture by Sam
> Halabi. My advise you guys to go thru Cisco site
> until new books come. Most
> books have old information and that can mislead in
> some cases example new ios
> features does something totally different than what
> the book says.
>
> When I came out from the lab, felt pretty confident
> of passing but still could
> not be so sure, it was the most stressful day. Next
> day I started checking
> mail every minute from morning, finally the mail
> came about 5.00 P.M. It is
> very hard to explain my feeling when every minute I
> waited for the mail and
> after receiving the mail. Now I forgot all the
> stress and pain, everything I
> did to achieve this is wonderful. I did not realize
> that two of my fingers
> does not work after coming from the lab, the doctor
> says, it is due to stress
> and will take about six months to get cured and no
> medication for that. Still
> I feel it is worth. My wife is the one more worried
> about my fingers. With the
> joy I don't feel any pain at all.
>
> I took a week rest, slept well without any
> configuration problem dreams; no
> access list prevented my sleep. This week arranged
> visas and ready to fly to
> India to see my parents and relatives and spent some
> time far away from
> routers.
>
> I see a lot of openings for CCIEs, it is going to be
> a tough job to choose a
> best one when I come back from vacation. Already I
> received 2 solid offers.
>
> Thanks to all members of this list and special
> thanks to members who answered
> my questions. Undoubtedly this list is a great tool
> for CCIE preparation.
>
> Good Luck to everyone. You can do it.
>
> Regards,
> Ravi
> CCIE # 8671
> ravi_ccie@hotmail.com
> Cell: 416 837 9886
> Tel: 416 2897411
>
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