From: Ellis, Neil (Neil.Ellis@xxxxxxxxxxxx)
Date: Mon May 06 2002 - 18:10:06 GMT-3
Good Show!!! I took the lab about 6 weeks ago and will return June 20th
(Hopefully this trip will be more sucessful). One must be ready for this
test, to all that are aspiring for one of these famous numbers.......
practice, practice, practice and read the Jeff Doyle books! Once again
Congrats, and take a long deserved break! :)
Neil Ellis
-----Original Message-----
From: Lupi, Guy
To: 'ccielab@groupstudy.com'
Sent: 5/6/02 2:35 PM
Subject: CCIE 9275
Well, here it is, I have been waiting to send this email for a long
time. I
got my number in RTP this past Friday, CCIE # 9275. It has been a long
road
for me, I started in telecommunications when I was in the Navy, this was
about 8.5 years ago. I got a little exposure to networking gear then
but it
mostly involved communications systems. After the Navy I worked for
Lucent
for about 6 months where I got more exposure to networking equipment
with
different vendors, I found routing so interesting I decided that I was
going
to go find a job where I could get exposure. In February 2000 I got a
job
at a small ISP in NYC working the helpdesk, and every free second I got
I
was on the routers poking around. I was hooked, and from that moment on
I
have read every book I could get my hands on. I was promoted to junior
engineer (upgrading IOS, turning up simple customer routers etc.) and
then
to full engineer within 6 months, and I started to learn BGP, OSPF, and
other protocols in depth. After getting my CCNP, I met a couple of
CCIE's
that were working on a project, and they so impressed me with their
knowledge and comfort level with the equipment that I decided that I was
going to be one. I started studying in August of 2001, 9 months non
stop,
every weekend practicing on my newly purchased routers, and every day
reading on the commute to work. When I sat the lab, I found it to be
extremely challenging, I could not believe that I was finding it this
hard
after almost 3 years of non stop studying Cisco equipment. I am glad I
waited that 9 months before scheduling the exam, because if I had gone
any
earlier I would not have passed. It truly did require you to know how
the
protocols interoperate and function, if I hadn't then I definitely would
have failed the routing section.
I would like to say thank you to Paul for creating this list, it was
fundamental in building the kind of skills and knowledge I needed to
pass.
To John Neiberger for helping me with my first dive into the old
IGRP/OSPF
redistribution, Manny Gonzalez, Mas Kato, Dan Dorton, Howard Berkowitz
and
Priscilla Oppenheimer for their long and detailed explanations that
expose
the real world operation of a protocol, not just the "here is what you
need
to pass the lab" version. Brian McGahan who explained extended access
list
filtering, and Dave Madland. There are so many others that have helped
me
to get to this point. If there is anything I learned from this
experience,
it is that you never stop learning, and that the CCIE's value is in the
understanding that you gain while studying to pass the lab. I have so
much
more I want to learn, and I look forward to having an opportunity to do
that
with the exceptional people on this list. Good luck to everyone, I hope
you
get the satisfaction of achieving your goals.
Guy H. Lupi
NOC Engineer
Eureka GGN
39 Broadway, 19th Floor
NY, NY 10006
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