From: Gustavo Figueira (gustavo.figueira@uol.com.br)
Date: Tue Jul 01 2003 - 10:36:41 GMT-3
Congrats....!!!!!!!!!
Welcome to the group.
Gustavo Figueira de Andrade
CCIE #11030
----- Original Message -----
From: "garnet ulrich" <garnet.ulrich@gmx.net>
To: <ccielab@groupstudy.com>
Sent: Tuesday, July 01, 2003 9:32 AM
Subject: woohoo - #11928
> After a very concentrated year of studying, I finally got my number on
> Saturday in RTP on my first attempt.
>
> From what I had read on this list, as of Saturday night I thought I'd
> failed. The proctor told us he'd be marking my pod and the one beside
> me as soon as we left on Saturday. Early Saturday night I received the
> dreaded email saying I could check the website to see whether I'd passed
> or failed. This email did not have a "Congratulations you are
> CCIE#xxxxx". From what I'd heard here, that meant I failed. To add to
> the mess, the page to check your lab score, book exams etc. was offline.
> Arghhhh. So I went to bed fairly sure I'd failed and trying to figure
> out where I lost those points. I thought about it a lot until almost
> midnight before getting 4.5 hours sleep to fly out early Sunday.
>
> By early Sunday afternoon, someone had kickstarted the lab score server
> (for lack of a better name) and I was able to log on back at home and
> get the news that I didn't need to be so down on myself. I got my
> number. Now I am the type that likes to look at a certificate quite a
> few times after getting it so I've tried to log on to that server ever
> since seeing my result. It has been down with a variety of ills every
> time I've checked. Fortunately the CCIE verification tool works and I
> can see that I am indeed #11928.
>
> I would recommend taking the exam in North Caolina. I can't imagine how
> anyone could be friendlier than the people of this state. Hotels are
> cheap on weekends. Airport and hotels are near the exam site. Simply
> beautiful surroundings if you care about that kind of thing.
>
> The usual data: Passed the written in July 2002. Bought my home lab
> heavy with Token Ring technology because how else can you run 12.1T for
> $125US. If you are building a home lab, at least think about it. With
> the saved cash, I had my own voice, ATM (Centillion) and ISDN so when I
> went to RTP, I was ready for these. I had some 3550s in the "sandbox"
> at work that I got real familiar with. The real workhorse in the lab is
> the pentium 200 linux box. Can't imagine not running with the penguin.
> TACACS, syslog, routing between token ring and ethernet, sshd for
> remote access, TFTP, DNS... I put in several hundred hours by casual
> calculation over the last year and topped it by taking two weeks
> vacation to study from 6 to 6 every day then headed straight to RTP. I
> started with Caslow and Solie but by December was using Doyle and Halabi
> a lot more. By January, I tried to use only the docCD at work when I
> needed something. In the end, I only used the docCD twice during the
> lab. Two other times I clicked on the master reference page and while
> it was loading (slowly) I decided that I actually knew what the answer
> would be and minimised Internet Exploder. I spent a lot of my time
> working on 4 or 5 router self-made scenarios where I'd hammer away at
> the technology, protocol or setup of the day. I followed groupstudy
> quite a bit. Thank you to the core experts that contribute so many
> definitive answers as well as everyone for so many insightful and
> sometimes humourous (you know who I'm talking about!) postings/rants. I
> paniced a bit during the first half hour but realised quickly that "I
> can do this". I got up from my chair many times during the day to get a
> water or something and this helped a lot. It breaks the mental lock you
> get in that causes you to make mistakes, get paniced etc. At least for
> me anyway. Finished with about 1.75 hours left and started checking
> stuff. I found a lot of errors and cleaned them up. When I left I
> thought I had a good chance of passing.
>
> A big thank you to everyone on the list. The biggest thank you goes to
> my super-wife who was really supportive. Among a million other things,
> she really helped pick up the slack around the house the last two weeks
> while I was buried in the office furiously typing away. As a network
> engineer herself, she also helped me work through a lot of issues during
> the year. Thank you again to my wife!
>
> Was anyone else on this list in RTP on Saturday? Just curious.
>
> Good luck to everyone on the list,
>
> garnet ulrich
> CCIE#11928
>
>
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