From: Jaeheon Yoo (kghost@xxxxxxxxxxxx)
Date: Wed Mar 06 2002 - 20:49:43 GMT-3
Wow, great!!
Congratulations!!!
Now you deserve good rest.
Jaeheon
----- Original Message -----
From: "George Zhang" <gyzhang63@hotmail.com>
To: <ccielab@groupstudy.com>; <cisco@groupstudy.com>; <discuss-it@lists.netmast
erclass.net>
Sent: Thursday, March 07, 2002 7:57 AM
Subject: CCIE#8903
> All,
>
> The title says it all. I took my first attempt at the CCIE lab test
> yesterday (March 5) in Halifax and received the "Congratulations on Passing
> the CCIE Lab!" this morning.
>
> I was the only person taking the lab test in Halifax yesterday. I was told
> that there was another person scheduled yesterday but did not show up. My
> test started about 8:15 AM in the morning. We broke for lunch at about
> 12:20PM. By then, I only finished all the IGP stuff and felt some pressure
> on time. But I have already reviewed rest of the test and knew that I could
> go through the rest quickly. After the 15 min lunch break, I worked through
> rest of the test very quickly. By about 3:00 PM, I finished every thing
> except one small requirement that I had no clue how to do it. I decided to
> skip that item. Then, I started reviewing and checking my config. Along
> the way of reviewing/checking, I spotted and fixed a few issues. Just about
> the time I finished reviewing every thing, the proctor walked in and told me
> that it' time. I looked at the watch. It was 4:30 PM. My proctor was
> Steve. Steve is a great proctor. He answered quite a few of my questions
> and cleared my mis-understanding and confusion about the requirements of the
> test.
>
> I would like to take this opportunity to thank all people who helped me to
> achieve my goal. First, I would like to thank my wife for her support and
> understanding. Without her support, there is no way I could achieve my
> goal. Next, I will give my thanks to Bruce, Val, and Fred of
> NetMasterClass. As I said earlier, the NMC1 class is the most important
> part of my final preparation. Thanks to Katie Wong of Cisco who scheduled
> me to access the ASET racks. Thats my primary resource for hands-on
> practices for the past couple of months. Thanks to Eric Fairfield for
> lending me a few routers when I was in Wisconsin. Also thanks to those that
> I've either studied with or have helped me one way or another. Thanks also
> to Paul for putting this great list together.
>
> As far as my story, I started my quest of the Cisco certifications a little
> over two and half years ago. I got my CCNA and CCNP in the first year.
> Three months later, I passed the CCIE written test. I wanted to take the
> lab a year ago. However, due to work and personal reasons, I did not get
> time to do it until now. Last year, I was too busy to do much study. At
> work, as a consultant, I was billing at least 40 hours/week for the whole
> year. At home, my second child was born in February, my wife finished
> school in July, and we moved to New Jersey from Wisconsin in September. In
> October of last year, I foresaw a window of opportunity for me to take the
> lab test early this year. Then, I lobbed my manager to let me go to the
> ECP1 class. By the time my manager approved my training request, I found
> that Mentor Technologies went belly up. However, I learned that Bruce and
> Val founded a new company called NetMasterClass, LLC
> (www.netmasterclass.net) and offering the NMC1 and NMC2 classes. I
> registered and took the NMC1 class by the end January. By the end of last
> year, the project I worked on finished. So since the beginning of this year
> I got a lot of time to study. For the past couple of months, I have studied
> 8-10 hours every day.
>
> As far as how I prepared, I have read most of the books (Doyle I & II,
> Caslow, Halabi, Tam-Nam-Kee, Solie, Satterlee, etc.) recommended by people
> on this list. Among this long list of books, the only one I dont like is
> Solies book because there are too many errors in the book. There are a few
> topics I was more confused after reading the book. I dont have a home lab.
> So my primary resource for hands-on practice is remote labs such as Mentor
> Technologies vlabs (not available any more), Cisco ASET lab. Because I
> dont have a home lab, my preparation included more reading than hands-on
> practice. That actually worked out very well for me. Above all, the most
> important part of my preparation is the NMC1 class taught by Bruce, Val and
> Fred. IF I HAD NOT TAKEN THE NMC1 CLASS, IT PROBABLY WOULD HAVE TAKEN ME
> ONE OR TWO MORE ATTEMPTS BEFORE I COULD GET MY NUMBER. There are a lot of
> things that just cannot be learned from reading books or practicing. So the
> NMC1 class helped me to fill in that gap very well. It also helped me to
> access my strength and weakness. So I know what to study on the last few
> weeks. I strongly recommend taking the NMC1 class a few weeks before your
> lab date.
>
> Thanks again.
>
> George Zhang
> CCIE#8903, CCNA, CCNP
> Sr. Network Architect
> Compuware Corpration
> 1 Meadowlands Plaza, Suite 1050
> East Rutherford, NJ 07073
> 732-494-0288
>
>
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