From: Tony Schaffran (tschaffran@cconlinelabs.com)
Date: Wed May 28 2003 - 16:05:09 GMT-3
Congratulations!!!
Enjoy the rush. You deserve it.
Tony Schaffran
Network Analyst
CCIE #11071
CCNP, CCNA, CCDA
NNCDS, NNCSS, CNE, MCSE
http://www.cconlinelabs.com/
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-----Original Message-----
From: nobody@groupstudy.com [mailto:nobody@groupstudy.com] On Behalf Of
Robert Yee
Sent: Wednesday, May 28, 2003 9:57 AM
To: ccielab@groupstudy.com
Subject: I passed! #11716
Hi All,
I passed yesterday in San Jose. This was my second time to taket he lab. I
got the e-mail sometime after midnight and clicked on the link. My heart was
ready to pop out of my chest as I waited for the page to load.
The first line I saw was on the page was:
Current Status
- Certified (CCIE # 11716)
I couldn't believe it. I woke up my wife to tell her the news! I have not
really been able sleep since finding out and have checked the web site many
times to make sure I didn't dream it.
If you are curious, these are the tools I used to study:
1. Groupstudy (of course). I have a 20k worth of groupstudy e-mails. If I
ever have a question on a topic, I seach locally and put the e-mails that I
find useful in it's own folder for future reference.
2. IPExpert labs. I bought the lab set from IPExpert and used that to
practice scenarios. The new lab (lab 36) is really good, but all the
multi-protocol labs are worthwhile.
3. Rack time. I'm luck to have my own rack. I prolly spent about 400-500
hours on racks in the last 2.3 to 3 months and well over that during the
last 8 months. I do not have VOICE or ATM on my rack, so I rented some time
from 6CoLabs. That worked out great.
4. CyscoExpert. I spent the last 7 days at CyscoExpert in Chicago. They were
great. I have to give them a lot of credit. I was about 95% prepared for my
second attempt when I went to CyscoExpert. They were able to help me with
the other 5%. This is the stuff that you have just not thought about. For
example, some of their IGP redistribution scenarios were very very
difficult, but in order to get it to work, you had to think outside the box.
The class was a good assesment of my skills and knowledge along the way I
picked up a few very important techniques that helped on the lab.
I was very nervous about the lab until I sat down and stated to type, then I
was just concerned about the lab. I one overriding strategy this time.That
wasto ask the procotr about ANY questions that needed clarification. I must
have been up there about 20 times.
I finished my IGPs by lunch, pinged all interfaces saved and reloaded.
Sitting in that cube really gives me a back ache, so I brought some Tylenol
with me and also went for a walk during lunch to decompress a bit and
stretch. I think that really helped.
Thanks GroupStudy!
Robert Yee, CCIE #11716
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