From: A Molica (ajmgrd-groupstudy@yahoo.com)
Date: Fri Apr 08 2005 - 23:01:18 GMT-3
Congrats! You worked for it! I'm taking my lab next
tue:
Curious: Did you get any of the following: ISIS, DLSW,
Multicast, IPv6, RIPng, wireless? Also, anything
funky?
--- etaylor10@tampabay.rr.com wrote:
> 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 Taylor
> CCIE #14551
>
>
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