From: etaylor10@tampabay.rr.com
Date: Fri Apr 08 2005 - 11:18:58 GMT-3
Group,
After 7 months of very intense studying and dedication to achieving this goal and over 5 years of industry experience mainly in voice, my day was yesterday in RTP. I knew when I left there yesterday that I had passed. I was so confident that I didn't even attempt one of the QoS questions that wasn't worth alot of pts. I would classify that as a "rathole" question that could waste valuable time. Instead, I spent more time making sure all my other stuff was correct.
On my path to becoming a CCIE I first took the written exam in Sept of last year. I then went to Boson's bootcamp back in November that was taught by Steve Marcineck which does a great job. He has been in touch with me this whole time while working on it.
I did the CiscoPress Practice lab book and also read Solie's books which are an invaluable resource to learning some topics. I did alot of my studying on CCO as well. After my first failed attempt, I figured that I should try some of these labs out there so I bought NMC's labs. I probably did 15 of them and also used their tech library which has alot of good material and test taking strategies. I also joined GS at that time.
I went back and failed yet again on my second attempt. At this point I was really wondering if I want to continue doing this to myself. I licked my wounds and scheduled the exam again on the day after failing. This time I did more reading than messing around in the practice lab. I attended a online seminar that Brian Dennis and Brian McGahan on some test taking strategies. While looking at IEs site I noticed they had some white paper stuff and there was a really good document on frame-relay traffic shaping.
I then wandered over to their recommended reading on IEs site and went through all of that. I did alot of my final studying on the Doc CD. I read over some of the material at 911networks.
Well, my flight got cancelled last night so I'm still in RTP so I have to get going to catch a flight back home. Good luck to all of you future candidates.
Thanks GS and to everyone that contributed to my success.
Eric
CCIE #14551
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