From: Doug.M.Pallette@alltel.com
Date: Mon Aug 09 2004 - 17:04:07 GMT-3
Congrats
-----Original Message-----
From: nobody@groupstudy.com [mailto:nobody@groupstudy.com] On Behalf Of
Tim Borgert
Sent: Saturday, August 07, 2004 4:53 PM
To: ccielab@groupstudy.com
Subject: Re: CCIE 13772!!!
Congrats, your hard work finally paid off!
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jon Campbell" <jcampbell2000@earthlink.net>
To: <ccielab@groupstudy.com>
Sent: Saturday, August 07, 2004 2:06 PM
Subject: CCIE 13772!!!
> Hello all,
>
> Yesterday I finally passed the CCIE Lab. It was a long journey. I
have
> been in the networking arena for 15 years building networks all over
the
> U.S. And until I started this journey of obtaining my CCIE 3 years
ago,
> I thought I was a pretty smart network engineer. Not until I started
> the CCIE process did I realize I was an absolute idiot (ok, maybe not
> absolute, but pretty close).
>
> I started like most people, Cisco Press. Talk about a wealth of
> information. At work I built a lab consisting of 10 routers, 2 3550s,
> Adtran 800, and an LS1010. I ordered labs from CCBootcamp and
IPExpert.
> And like many, I started doing lab after lab. I began to realize
> quickly that I was wasting time on the labs, because I didn't
understand
> the concept details well enough. So, I read and I read, and I wrote,
> and I wrote. Things that I didn't understand I setup in the lab and
> made it fail and made it work. While I still did labs, I started
doing
> configs in a notebook and then set them up to see if they would work.
> This technique made me think, not just blindly type in configs.
>
> All of this I learned by trial and error. But for some reason it
wasn't
> enough, I came extremely close to passing 2 labs. So, close as a
matter
> of fact, that I asked for re-scores on both. But I received nothing
> from either. So at the suggestion of Micah Byers (whom I thank), I
> decided to spend 2 weeks at CyscoExpert. There, experts like Mitch,
> Bocho, Bahram, Peter, Tom, and Naran helped me fine tune the little
> details I was over looking.
>
> Now that I have this 300 pound weight off my back, I am going to start
> living a little.
>
> Jonathan Campbell MCSE, CNE, CNX, CCNP, CCIE #13772
>
>
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