From: Tony Schaffran (groupstudy@cconlinelabs.com)
Date: Wed Jun 07 2006 - 10:28:55 ART
Only 4 months of study?
You make it sound easy.
Congratulations!!
Tony Schaffran
Network Analyst
CCIE #11071
CCNP, CCNA, CCDA,
NNCDS, NNCSS, CNE, MCSE
www.cconlinelabs.com
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-----Original Message-----
From: nobody@groupstudy.com [mailto:nobody@groupstudy.com] On Behalf Of
Eric.Stuhl@ferguson.com
Sent: Wednesday, June 07, 2006 6:04 AM
To: ccielab@groupstudy.com
Subject: 16349
Hey Folks,
I'll keep this short and sweet. I passed at RTP on Monday on my
second attempt at the R&S lab. I started down this path many years ago,
took a long break, then when my CCNP/DP were about to expire last August
I decided it was time to get back on the horse. I passed the written and
scheduled a bootcamp in January. (NMC-1, www.netmasterclass.com) I then
did completely nothing until it came time for the bootcamp itself. At
NMC-1, I actually formed a reasonable plan about how I would attack the
lab. Val, Bob, Bruce and company really helped me see where some of my
weaknesses were and gave me some direction for how I'd spend the next
couple of months. Walking out of NMC-1 on 1/27, I scheduled my lab for 3
months later on 4/28. The next three months were spent exhaustively
perusing the Do-IT workbook. I tackled all of those ridiculously
challenging scenarios and then proceeded to knock out the Assessor and
the full spectrum of Check-IT labs, finishing the last Check-IT the day
before my first attempt.
My first attempt was odd, in many ways. I finished the lab
shortly after lunch, checked it briefly and left two hours early, firmly
convinced that I had passed with no issues. My score report proved
otherwise. I immediately rescheduled for a month later on 6/5. The next
time I was much more careful, still finishing shortly after lunch, but
checking over my work multiple times, proving exhaustively that
everything was performing as expected. I left knowing in my heart that I
had passed but scared to death that I was missing something, had
suddenly lost the ability to read, or having some partial blindness that
would have caused me to fail again. I spent the evening obsessively
checking my score report until I finally got the news that I passed.
I'd just like to thank my wife for putting up with me, the folks
at NMC for providing me with the plan to success and the tools to
achieve my goal, my boss for sending me to NMC, and my classmates from
NMC-1 for helping me to continuously improve my understanding of
technology. I'd also like to thank all of you on Groupstudy for putting
up with some of my asinine emails and for forcing me to rethink some of
what I thought I knew.
Good luck to everyone still on the path to the number and
remember that it is certainly an achievable goal.
Eric Stuhl
CCIE 16349
Ferguson Enterprises
eric.stuhl@ferguson.com
(757)-969-4146
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