From: wing_lam@jossynergy.com
Date: Tue Jul 01 2003 - 11:01:03 GMT-3
Hi, Congrats!
I just curious are you just practise with own designed complex scenario but
no any other product? And how did you test RSVP and CBWFQ stuffs?
Thx,
BBD (Big Black Dog)
garnet ulrich
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garnet ulrich
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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