From: Danny Lane (techtips@comcast.net)
Date: Fri Apr 08 2005 - 23:16:34 GMT-3
Dude
Thanks for the Tip on the partners site. I have been able to access this
for years and had no idea of the training available.
I have just returned empty handed from my 1st attempt in San Jose. I am
not discouraged at all rather, I wished I could go back tomorrow.....
I am feeling real confident, but not over confident. I know my
weaknesses, time management being the biggest, and I am working on this
and other weaknesses.
Again Eric thanks for your tips.
-danny
-----Original Message-----
From: nobody@groupstudy.com [mailto:nobody@groupstudy.com] On Behalf Of
Eric Taylor
Sent: Friday, April 08, 2005 4:33 PM
To: ccielab@groupstudy.com
Subject: RE: CCIE #14551
Well, I'm finally at home now. Thanks for all the nice emails from
everyone.
I didn't have the time to put everything that I used to study so I will
continue...
If your company is a partner with Cisco, make sure you get your CCO ID
updated so you can access the Partner E-Learning. They have some
specific
CCIE labs in there for different stuff such as BGP, Multicast, ISIS,
etc...
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/partner/partners/index.html
From there, try accessing the the Partner E-Learning(PEC).
You actually do the labs on routers that they give you access to
instantly
when you request that course. I did some of these labs and learned a few
things from them.
HTH,
Eric
CCIE #14551
-----Original Message-----
From: nobody@groupstudy.com [mailto:nobody@groupstudy.com]On Behalf Of
etaylor10@tampabay.rr.com
Sent: Friday, April 08, 2005 10:19 AM
To: ccielab@groupstudy.com
Subject: CCIE #14551
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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