From: Mushtaq A. Khan (mak.ccie2b@gmail.com)
Date: Thu Mar 16 2006 - 01:15:54 GMT-3
Jon
CONGRATS!!!!!!!!!!
WELL DONE.
Mushtaq
On 3/15/06, Christopher M. Heffner <cheffner@certified-labs.com> wrote:
>
> Congratulations Jon.
>
> Welcome to the CLUB.
>
> Next step - vacation?
>
> May I suggest VEGAS say about June 18-24.
>
> I will buy you a beer to celebrate.
>
> Later.
>
> Christopher M. Heffner, CCIE 8211, CCSI 98760
> Strategic Network Solutions, Inc.
>
> www.certified-labs.com
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: nobody@groupstudy.com [mailto:nobody@groupstudy.com] On Behalf Of
> Jon Mitchell
> Sent: Wednesday, March 15, 2006 11:18 AM
> To: ccielab@groupstudy.com
> Subject: R&S passed yesterday RTP
>
> Hello -
>
> Long time lurker, not often poster. Wanted to post to say thank you and
> hopefully provide a nice story like the many that I enjoyed reading
> sometimes which were just as helpful for encouragement as the technical
> advice on here was for practical. Sorry for the ramble, I'm still very
> tired.
>
> Was studying for my CCIE, and passed written 5 years back. After taking
> a job at an ISP and moving accross the counry gave it up due to lack of
> equipment and wanting to focus on my new role. Less than a year ago got
> back on the horse and passed my written in August. Started rigourous
> lab study in November after getting some equipment together and
> purchasing the Netmaster DoIT V2 practice labs. These were very helpful
> for pointing out technologies I needed to get further involved in (usual
> suspects: QoS, Multicast, IPv6, Security) as my experience was mostly SP
> Routing. I read and reread many books both five years back and recently
> that were critical to understanding topics, all of which are CiscoPress:
>
> Routing TCP/IP Volume 1 & 2 (mostly found V1 useful) CCIE Practical
> Studies (only found partially useful, but then again didn't actually do
> the labs in here so I'm not best source) Cisco QOS Exam Certification
> Guide (new version of DQOS, very helpful) Developing IP Multicast
> Networks Vol 1 (great, but dated: Beau, how about a V2?) Implementing
> Cisco IPv6 Networks
>
> I also read almost every configuration guide on all Blueprint topics in
> the 12.4/12.2(25)SEE docs for the routers and switches on the lab and I
> will spend most of the next week finding them all laying around my
> house. I also surfed to these topics manually whenever I got stuck on a
> requirement in one of the NMC labs, and having never tried to use the
> search function was not overly impacted by the email when it came saying
> it was broken.
>
> Tips on the actual lab:
>
> 1. Know your basics and use the published blueprint to evaluate
> yourself.
> 2. Practice drawing (I am not artistic and this made my life hard).
> 3. Don't eat a lot at lunch, use the time to think through your
> problems and strategize about remaining time, sometimes it's easier to
> think without the computer staring back at you.
> 4. Check and double check work. In the last 45 minutes I found several
> goofs in my work, referencing things by wrong name, configuring
> requirements on the wrong router. Whenever I read this from someone
> else, I ignore it thinking it never happens to me, but under the gun of
> the lab it did. I also realized on the flight home that I totally
> forgot to configure a 3 point requirement and was beating myself up
> until the email came. Use the often mentioned TCL reachability tests.
> 5. Do what the exam asks, no more, no less. Ask the proctor when
> something is unclear about what fork to take (if you don't know see the
> roads, this is more your issue) needed, that's what they are for.
> 6. Relax on exam day, if you are overly anxious to pass during the
> exam, this will work against you. I just (tried) to treat it like one
> of the NMC practice labs...
> 7. Your exam is graded by someone else (see point 5), so results may
> take longer than some people here mentioned, mine took 12 hours.
>
> Good luck to all,
>
> -Jon
> #15953
>
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