From: Darby Weaver (darbyweaver@yahoo.com)
Date: Wed Jun 07 2006 - 11:23:30 ART
Very well said Eric,
Again, my compliments and sincerest congratulations
for your achievement.
Thanks for everything,
Darby Weaver
--- Eric.Stuhl@ferguson.com wrote:
> 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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