From: Scott Morris (swm@emanon.com)
Date: Thu Sep 09 2004 - 01:05:10 GMT-3
Interesting subject line... Sorry for the grabber there.
I've had a number of you guys send me e-mails, which I appreciate! But I
figure I'll take this time to send an e-mail that I have seen plenty of
other times over the years!
On Tuesday, I was out in San Jose sitting for a CCIE lab, just like many of
you are! Granted, it was for the Voice CCIE and not the R&S, but all in all
the status and concept is all the same. :) I went out and took the lab,
of course always hoping for the best, but in my case, expecting otherwise.
At least I met the expectation (grin), as today I received the e-mail that
many do containing the availability of my score report as opposed to a
simple congratulatory e-mail.
As I hope many of you accomplish when you move across this exam is an
appreciation for many things:
1. What a royal pain in the ass these things can be!
2. Just how much studying is involved, and even then, there are always
different methods of thinking that you may not have approached before.
3. No matter how much you know, there is always more out there. (In a
nutshell, having passed four other exams didn't help a whole heck of a lot
at this stage other than people have lofty expectations for some reason!)
My exam was interesting. There were some hardware-related issues that I
could have done without. Did that affect my passing score? Not likely. I
counted up the points at the end of the day, and there were enough things
that I wasn't happy about or sure about to make that grey area too wide.
As hard as it may seem, the focus should always be on 'next time'. I
thought the exam was challenging. I thought the exam was fair. I thought
they came up with things that I hadn't pondered before. But that's all well
and good, because next time I will be prepared for that! (and the other
holes I left this time!)
Anyway, I just wanted to thank those who had sent me e-mails offline, but
also take the time to point out that everyone is really in the same boat
when it comes to taking a CCIE lab exam of any variety. No matter what the
experience level, or overall expertise, there is a LOT of technology and
information to cover. What is selected for one particular exam may end up
being the bane of one person's existence while a cake-walk for another.
It's all in the name of learning, and hopefully anyone taking the lab finds
a way to get a positive experience out of it all!
For now, I'm still the same obnoxious guy that I have been and my head
hasn't grown any larger (smirk). All kidding aside though, at some point in
time, we are all peers as CCIE candidates.
Scott Morris, CCIE4 (R&S/ISP-Dial/Security/Service Provider) #4713, CISSP,
JNCIP, et al.
IPExpert CCIE Program Manager
IPExpert Sr. Technical Instructor
swm@emanon.com/smorris@ipexpert.net
http://www.ipexpert.net <http://www.ipexpert.net/>
This archive was generated by hypermail 2.1.4 : Fri Oct 01 2004 - 15:00:40 GMT-3