From: joshua lauer (jslauer@hotmail.com)
Date: Sat Oct 16 2004 - 18:23:11 GMT-3
Congrats on your pass.
I'm active duty military for 13 years, so I understand your dedication. I'm
just hoping I pass first try, I need a vacation on of these days :) Congrats
and have a couple beers!
jl
Josh Lauer
----- Original Message -----
From: "Cecil Jackson" <cejackson1@comcast.net>
To: <jean.paul.baaklini@accenture.com>; <jjoh850@hotmail.com>;
<ccielab@groupstudy.com>
Sent: Saturday, October 16, 2004 3:26 PM
Subject: Re: Passed; #13899
> 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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