From: Cecil Jackson (cejackson1@comcast.net)
Date: Sat Oct 16 2004 - 16:26:16 GMT-3
Joe,
Great job! That took a lot of dedication on your part considering the
environment that you are in.
Good job and good luck when you get out.
Cecil
----- Original Message -----
From: <jean.paul.baaklini@accenture.com>
To: <jjoh850@hotmail.com>; <ccielab@groupstudy.com>
Sent: Saturday, October 16, 2004 1:06 PM
Subject: RE: Passed; #13899
> Well done Joe, Congratulations!!!!!!
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: nobody@groupstudy.com [mailto:nobody@groupstudy.com] On Behalf Of
> Joe Johnson
> Sent: 16 October 2004 18:31
> To: ccielab@groupstudy.com
> Subject: Passed; #13899
>
> Hello everyone,
>
>
>
> Last Thursday I passed in Brussels on my 4th attempt. I know this
> message
> is a little late; I've been meaning to post it but kept finding other
> things
> I needed to do. I started this journey 2 years ago after finishing my
> CCNP.
> It took me a little longer than I would have liked but being a single
> parent
> and an active duty member of the US Air Force both take quite a bit of
> my
> time.
>
>
>
> I started out re-reading Cisco Press books and labbing them up, and
> after I
> did that for a while I got the NMC workbook. After nearly finishing
> that IE
> released their workbook and after reading many good reviews of it I
> decided
> to purchase it. I was pleasantly surprised/humbled by the difficulty of
> the
> labs and slowly worked through about 60% of them before my 1st attempt.
> I
> was surprised when I failed that one and more surprised by my score
> report.
> Unfortunately shortly after that I got deployed to the Middle East for 3
> months so I didn't have much time to study or research what I did wrong
> or
> much of anything during that time.
>
>
>
> After I came back and got settled in I started to study again. My next
> lab
> date was right before 12.2T was going to be on the exam and they hadn't
> announced IPv6 was excluded. I really wanted to get it this time so I
> took
> the IE online workshop which was a very good class. I passed each lab
> so I
> figured I wouldn't have a problem with the real one. Just to be sure I
> took
> the NMC CheckIt lab and got around a 70%. I thought I passed my 2nd
> attempt
> as well but sure enough didn't. I found a few mistakes I made but
> didn't
> think they justified my score. After that I scheduled my next lab about
> a
> month and 1 week later.
>
>
>
> One mistake I made before my 3rd attempt was not taking any vacation
> time to
> study and of course I was really busy at work so I didn't get any study
> time
> there. I studied as much as I could but it wasn't much. It really hurt
> when I failed that one because I was really close to passing and now
> over
> the "average" failure rate of 2 attempts. I again scheduled as soon as
> I
> could mainly because I knew I was really close.
>
>
>
> To prepare for my 4th attempt first I re-read the DQoS cert guide and
> bought
> and read Cisco Firewall Security (well R&S applicable sections anyways).
> After that I re-read the IE solutions guide for labs 1-7 and went over
> my
> notes a few times. A week before my lab date I did some of the later IE
> labs for a comprehensive overview. After I finished the lab I though I
> was
> probably close but after thinking that my last 3 times I figured I
> probably
> failed again. When I got home (4 hours later) to my surprise there
> wasn't
> an E-Mail from Cisco saying my results were ready. The past 3 times I
> had
> that message waiting so I figured it might be good news. About 3 hours
> and
> 5 beers later I got the E-Mail and saw pass; I was so excited. The next
> day
> when I woke up I had to re-check the website just to make sure.
>
>
>
> To everyone out there still working on this beast of an exam all I can
> say
> is don't give up. Failure is tough and the more you get the worse it
> is. I
> knew I had to keep going because if I didn't I would loose all the time
> and
> money I put into it (even though my networking skills improved so much).
> Also I'm getting out of the Air Force in about 5 months and I really
> wanted
> to pass before I got out. Now that I've passed it feels as if a huge
> weight
> has been lifted from me.
>
>
>
> I'd like to thank the Brian's and NMC staff for delivering such great
> products; they were instrumental in my success.
>
>
>
> I would also like to thank Paul for running groupstudy. Where I'm at
> there's no one else working on their CCIE so there's never any CCIE type
> discussion around. Although I've only been a passive listener it's been
> really great to know that I'm not the only one putting myself though
> this
> difficult process.
>
>
>
> Good luck to everyone,
>
>
>
> Joe
>
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