From: Rodrigo Paes (rpaes@pobox.com)
Date: Tue Sep 13 2005 - 19:39:48 GMT-3
parabens :)
Rodrigo Paes
CCIE #14054
On Mon, 2005-09-12 at 20:17 -0300, gladston@br.ibm.com wrote:
> I would like to thank you to participate, in some way, on the achievement
> of the CCIE R&S certification.
>
> Thanks to Groupstudy. Allow me to express how much I appreciate this
> group. It is a company on this difficult journey. I might apologize to
> submit so many questions, sometimes several of them just a day. I am happy
> to receive answers for some of them. I thought about not mention names
> because I am afraid to be unfair, so many nice people out there helping
> us.
> But allow me to give special thanks to Chris, from Cisco, who helped me
> consistently on the last months.
> Thanks to Alexei, from NetMasterClass, that answered several questions
> last year, when I was using their material.
> Thanks to Arun Arumuganainar, Sean C, Simon Hart, San, Tim, Balaji, Bob
> Sinclair, Brian's from IE, Scott Morris, Marvin from CCBootCamp, Arun
> Baskaradoss, Ed Lui, Andrew Edwards, Kumara, Larry Letterman, Lee Carter,
> Lee Donald, Mani Poopal, Thomwin Chen, Tony Schaffran, John Matijevic,
> Carlos Mendioroz, among so many other.
>
> Thanks to my wife, who was on my side during the three years on this
> effort and did not give up me, even when she had to give away free movies
> tickets, because after 10 hours in front of the computer I could not stay
> in front of anything else that required my eyes. I can not express in
> words how much you have helped me.
>
> Thanks to my soon who understood my dedication to this goal, and helped me
> to relax on the weekends (the ones I was not studying).
>
> Thanks to my sister, to teach me visualization and meditation techniques,
> and offering financial support when I was worried about how much I would
> still expend this year. Thanks to Jorge, the brother in law, for the funny
> moments.
>
> Thanks to doctor Lie, doctor Amelia and doctor Lino. You were angels
> helping me keep the health.
>
> Thanks to my last manager Esper for trusting me. It was an honor to work
> with you. I really appreciate your organization, education and capacity of
> analysis. Thanks.
>
> Thanks to my provisory manager, Antonio Wilson. I worked with you just a
> few months and you bring me encouraging words that helped me keep strong
> on the path.
>
> Thanks to my new manager, Regina. For you patience and trust and help me
> to mix the daily works with the lab time.
>
> Thanks to the managers responsible for the certification on my company for
> the trust and financial help.
>
> Thanks a lot to Wilson Medio, that always let me use the company lab.
>
> Thanks to Anderson, from Nec, for sharing your organized way to see the
> technology.
>
> Many thanks Leornardo for sharing your logical view of the CCIE process
> and words of inspiration. One day working with you was enough to help me
> stay calm (as possible) asking the LORD for serenity on the day of the
> lab.
>
> Thanks to Wilson, a CCIE that I spend just few days but helped me to keep
> in mind the importance of the Strategy. On his words: ?the feeling that
> the exam is not fair is because we study so much and do not get it; the
> cause is that no matter how much you study, the exam is also strategy?.
>
> Thanks to Jay, from Expert-labs, which have a wonderful rack rental
> service.
> Also thanks to Ccie-rack, which I used.
>
> Thanks Marco, for the opportunity to be the instructor of the
> Troubleshooting course, which helped me with the expenses of the CCIE
> Bootcamp.
>
> Josi, thanks to took me as a CCNA instructor back into 2000 year, for the
> CCNP course and to trust my work.
>
> Thanks Reginaldo, for your words when you thought I had passed.
>
> Thanks to Maurilio. I have wanted to have you as a Proctor for a while.
> Elaine, thanks to be friendly all the times the candidates seat there.
>
> Thanks Mr Bruce Caslow, to phone me last year and spend more than one hour
> with advices. I really appreciated that. Also thanks to the lovely Indy
> Teller.
>
> Thanks Mr Santana, for your weekly kindly words that bring us serenity and
> faith.
>
> Vernon, thanks for the words. Keep on it. You are getting it.
>
> Dianna and Ed, a lovely couple, thanks to receive me at your adorable
> house on the weekend after the Bootcamp in NY, allowing me to forget the
> CCIE preparation for a while.
>
> THANKS TO LORD CHRIST. Please help me to keep on your path and serve your
> cause.
>
> As it is common on Groupstudy, let me do what I have requested several
> times to the candidates that passed: advices.
> Just remembering, it works a different way for each person, being the
> process itself a self discovering work.
> If you are starting the process, please do not take these words. Remember
> the history of the guy that did a job because did not know that it was
> difficult.
> With that in mind, I would recommend:
> -Stay on the PRESENT: Study to learn, instead of studying to pass. Because
> it helps to get small pleasures on the process of learning itself, instead
> of just get frustration of failing.
> -Study using the devices and IOS current used the lab. Do not spend your
> time using older IOS versions or routers. Beside as much as I used and
> appreciate the 2500 series, forget them (well, they are still good for
> backbone routers). Renting a lab when your own lab is not up-to-date is a
> great deal.
> -Have almost all the books recommended by Cisco. This is my list:
> Doyle I and II
> Solie I and II
> QoS by Wendell
> QoS by Vegesna
> Frame Relay by Chin
> Security by Deal
> Catalyst QoS by Flannagan
> Switching by Barnes
> Switching by Clark
> Multicast by Williamson
> BGP by Halabi
> IPv6 by Desmeules
> CCIE Labs by Maurilio
> Troubleshooting, by Shamim
> OSPF, by Parkhurst
> Cisco Cookbook
> -You should be familiar even with the bugs, which can occur during the
> lab. I am not breaking the NDA saying that it happened three times with
> me: the last time it took me just few minutes to recognize it, tell the
> Proctor and reload the router; on the first time I did not identify it at
> all; the second time it took me around 30 minutes. What I want to say is:
> practice enough to be used with the bugs of the IOS version used on the
> lab, so if you run into some of them, they are just one more detail,
> instead of surprising you.
> -Saying it again, strategy is a key point. And what is strategy? Basically
> it is to recognize that the question will take you 30 minutes that you do
> not have, so use the time to recheck other work.
> -CHECK the results. This is a key point. Learn during your training how to
> check the results of every feature.
> -Make your all scenarios. Add features to them, make them big, but similar
> to the structure you have on your real lab. Treat it as a network that
> must be stable and reliable. That means that when you return to it one
> week later, after pasting the saved configuration the connectivity and
> services like HSRP, IRDP, Security features, QoS features, NTP and so on
> should be working like a clock.
> -WorkBooks: they are all great.
> --I heavily used NetMasterClass last year. But as you have heard, it
> is a lot more complicate that the lab. I would say that it is necessary to
> make the labs twice;
> --InternetworkExpert: I studied some lab with a workmate. They have a
> consistent material
> --IPExpert: good, but I can not say much; although I bought it I did
> not do the labs.
> -Bootcamps: if I had the money and time, I would do them all:
> CyscoExperts, InternetworkExpert, NetMasterClass and IPExpert
> -To help keep motivated, remember that we study technology instead of just
> a specific company product, which is useful to understand many products on
> the market.
> -Forget about the number of attempts. This test has nothing to do with our
> previous experience. It was funny when a workmate said: ?I was so
> frustrated; I never failed an exam on my life??. It was funny because I
> felt the same way. Remember that the structure is very different from a
> regular exam. There is practically no feedback pointing what went wrong,
> the exam is extremely expensive, which makes the pressure go to the sky,
> there is not a second day to review what just come as a solution to our
> mind. Considering that, no number of attempts would be big, if you are
> still learning. I am trying to be honest here, and in fact repeating what
> one guy told me using different words, about a year ago, and now I can
> understand better what he said. The guy was Flannagan (author of Catalyst
> QoS). Thanks.
> -As we stay so many time involved with this goal, is takes a level of
> importance on our life that may not help. Keep in mind that this is just
> one of many goals on our life (past and future), and there are lot of more
> important things that you already have, as your family, your health, you
> spirituality, your capacity to choose and do infinity options.
> -Balance the lab practice and theory. Do not study without a lab and do
> not lab without available books and access to the Doc CD. They complement
> each other.
> -Do not go for the lab just to test it. You surely will fail. (Oh, that is
> not valid if you are submitted to the technologies present on the lab on a
> regular basis, which improve the chances of passing it first way, and
> there is no other way to discover it besides going for the lab). First do
> many labs testing the IOS and platform present on the lab. I would say the
> number 400 hours is a good one.
> -After testing ways to study to accomplish it, you will find your way.
> -Soft Yoga, Tai-Chi-Chuan and Meditation are wonderful tools to keep the
> health and low stress.
> -Doing the lab can be similar to a driver who takes a new path. He can
> easily loose the faster road and take more time than he thought it would
> be necessary to arrive on the destination. On the day of the lab, after
> your meditation, pray asking for serenity and protection, so you can make
> the right decisions. Don?t pray to answer correctly what you have not
> studied :)
>
> Do not use the words ?I will be a CCIE? (with all due respect to the
> Cciesecrets Jim?s e-book, which I appreciated). Use the words ?I am
> becoming a CCIE?. Because it is true, you become a CCIE on the present, as
> a process, during the days we spend training and discovering new ways to
> test the configuration, verifying points that we really did not know that
> well, learning the behavior of the IOS (even the bugs), using all books
> available to go deep on the technology, being pleasure to see how many
> good authors are out there to help us.
>
> Although we found many bugs on this journey going deep on the technology
> (that make us crazy adding difficulties to the process), Cisco still is
> one of the most stable and logical platform I have worked with for the
> last several years. And I mean companies like Ericson, Synoptics, Hughes,
> Nec and Newbridge.
> The documentation is by far the best and accessible on the market, and the
> small mistakes are just part of the great work.
>
> A little history of my certification:
> I am involved with the CCIE lab for the last two years (one year for the
> writing). Considering the beginning, Cisco certification brings me back to
> 2000, when I bought my first certification book, by Wendell, at that nice
> bookstore in the World Trade Center (I think second floor). CCNA and the
> four CCNP tests were like a flash. Then, CCIE was like a wall in front of
> me. A 100 feet wall, while I am about 6 feet tall. The support of the
> LORD, Family, Managers, Workmates, Groupstudy, Authors and so many helped
> me to find a way to go over it. Thanks.
>
> Well, sorry to bother you with so many words.
> Good Luck!! Keep on the Road!!
>
>
> Cordially
> ------------------------------------------------------------------
> Gladston
>
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