From: Dillon Yang (dillony@gmail.com)
Date: Fri Apr 08 2005 - 08:27:58 GMT-3
Congratulations!
Our first attempt may be the same day.
dillon
On Apr 8, 2005 3:57 PM, Jelle Borsje <borsjej@yahoo.dk> wrote:
> Hej all,
>
> In the last few days I have seen a few success stories
> flying around. I have now sufficiently recovered from
> the shock to write my own story about it, mostly for
> those who are still in pursuit after their number.
> During the learning process I have often had the
> feeling, that is was never going to happen, that I was
> simply not smart enough to obtain this certification,
> that there was too much to know, etc, etc. There are
> probably a few of you out there feeling the same way
> at times.
> I passed the written exam towards the end of 2003 and
> after a year of preparing for the lab exam, I finally
> went down to Brussels towards the end of October last
> year. I didn't feel too bad about the exam after I
> came out, but what I did know was that I hardly had
> enough time to finish the exam. It was not completely
> unexpected, but a huge disappointment anyway, when I
> found out that I FAILed. I worked out that I must
> have been around the 70% mark... I could hardly
> oversee how I to proceed. I had used a lot of my time
> and money on this thing, and failing at the end of
> november meant that I could first sign up again in
> Jan. 2005. This meant, that IPv6, which I knew nothing
> about yet, was to be included.
> Anyway, I used December to read everything I could
> about IPv6, and to find spare equipment at work to put
> a lab together. After the holidays I have used every
> single evening practicing and configuring routers,
> building up to the exam, which was scheduled for
> 1/4/2005. Some people a talked to thought it was a bit
> over the top to choose such an exam on April Fools
> Day, but, I do well on such days (Friday the 13th as
> well). This time, I was prepared much better, and had
> a battle plan, which reminds me much of Jongsoo's,
> posted a few days ago. I had worked out for myself
> when I had to be finished with various topics at
> various stages into the exam. I was able to stick to
> it... and even managed to perform better than I
> planned. Around lunch time I had completed everything
> up and until BGP (including ISDN) and when we were
> called in for lunch, I was almost halfway the security
> section. During lunch, I was already working on the
> next section in my mind, and was not very social
> (there is a time and place for everything, I guess). I
> managed to completed the remainer of the exam
> (skipping only 4 questions) in the next 1.5 hours
> after lunch. This meant, that I had 2 hours remaining
> to test, verify and improve on the configurations, as
> well as look at the questions I skipped (worth about 8
> points). I spent an hour testing everything I could.
> Universal connectivity, NAT, the funny security
> features, QOS and maybe more. HOW DIFFERENT from last
> time, when I just managed to get the exam finished in
> time, without testing!!! The last hour I spent working
> on the 4 questions I skipped. I managed to come up
> with a solution for 2 of them, increasing my maximum
> score by 6 points to 96. The last 4 points I had to
> abandon. It was a good run, felt good about what I had
> made, but felt unsecure after last times failure and
> the fact that I was not able to solve everything. The
> results were on the Cisco website 3 hours later!!! A
> big fat PASS showed, along with my new CCIE number. I
> was, and still am, on top of the world. Shocked, happy
> and soooo relieved that I dont have to make the
> journey again. It was the happy ending of 1.5 years of
> on and off preparation.
>
> I'm very greatful to the people that have supported
> and helped me. Those people include my girlfriend, who
> has supported me through thick and thin. She never
> complained in the last months, when I was spending all
> my time at the computer, or with my nose in Cisco
> books. I'd like to thank all the people on both this
> forum as well as the NetMasterClass forums. Lastly,
> I'm very grateful to the staff of NetMasterClass, of
> which I have used a lot of the materials, including
> the DOiT workbook (with IPv6 and 12.2T features) and
> the associated AnswerKeys with the solutions. It has
> absolutely helped me to get ready for the exam, and
> get used to the type of questions I could expect. In
> the 2 weeks before the exam, I completed a lot of
> CHECKiT exams. It has completely prepared me for the 8
> hour exam experience. I am aware that the performance
> has to be delivered by oneself (no one can do the exam
> for you), but they have definately given me the
> structure and guidance I needed to get to this result.
>
> I will probably stay on my pink cloud for a bit
> longer, and will always think back fondly about this
> experience and the helpful and kind people I met along
> the way.
>
> Thanks again! And all of you still in pursuit... keep
> up the good work. It can be done!!
>
> Greetz
> Jelle Borsje
> CCIE #14524
>
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