From: Radoslav Vasilev (deckland@gmail.com)
Date: Wed Nov 01 2006 - 16:03:44 ART
Yes, yes, I forgot to include my number.
Rado
#17147
On 11/1/06, Sean C <Upp_and_Upp@hotmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Rado,
>
> Congrats on the digits!!
> (Even though your digits are a mystery)
> Sean
> #17085
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Radoslav Vasilev" <deckland@gmail.com>
> To: "Cisco certification" <ccielab@groupstudy.com>
> Sent: Wednesday, November 01, 2006 4:29 AM
> Subject: Passed in Brussels
>
>
> > Hi Group,
> >
> > I've always wanted to write one of those big, inspiring emails that we
> > see every now and then sent to this group by someone happy enough to
> > have passed the CCIE Lab exam. But after what appears to be a couple
> > of hours of sleep in the last two days I'm afraid I'll go for a
> > shorter version of my success story ;)
> >
> > So, I passed in the lab in Brussels yesterday on my first attempt. The
> > experience of the exam was totally different that what I expected we
> > were eleven candidates that day, waiting at the nice reception,
> > nervously eating Cisco chocolates and waiting for someone to come and
> > pick us. Exactly on time our proctor for the day came and we were
> > given instructions for the lab, shown around, etc.
> >
> > The exam started incredibly quickly, some five minutes later and
> > everyone around me started clicking on their keyboards exactly like
> > everyone has said before in this group -people really start working
> > right way as opposed to sit, relax and actually read what's on the lab
> > scenario.
> >
> > My first warning to all of you guys that are due to go for first time
> > to the lab don't over-read the tasks and don't loose too much time
> > for this phase this was my only mistake I did yesterday I started
> > configuring after one hour and a half of reading and checking. I was
> > taken by surprise for reasons I can't mention for NDA reasons, but I
> > can say that you should expect any kind of format for the scenario and
> > work your way quickly to a format that you're used to from your
> > preparation. Anyway even after so much time reading, I didn't finish
> > reading the whole lab I left behind the IP services section,
> > security, etc because I knew this shouldn't break my lab and I
> > finally started configuring.
> >
> > You'll have roughly four hours before lunch time and after twenty or
> > so minutes for lunch we went back to the room to continue the second
> > part of the exam. At least in Brussels you can leave the room at any
> > time and go to bathroom or coffee room.
> >
> > I thought did pretty bad before lunch as I couldn't finish the IGP
> > sections I made a poll at lunch time and found out that all of the
> > people I asked couldn't completely finish it anyway it seemed that
> > everyone was just about to check connectivity or finish one or two
> > tasks more. Anyway after lunch you need to wisely manage your time
> > as you need at least two and a half hours for checking it's
> > incredible how much time it takes to confirm things you need to
> > check every little detail for every task if you want to have a nice
> > confident flight back home something I didn't have as I couldn't
> > completely finish my second round of testing this is usually when I
> > find my mistakes made when I originally configured a task I found a
> > single mistake only and was quite sure that I was missing more from
> > the last two sections.
> >
> > So give yourself at least two and a half hours for checking, which
> > means that you should be able to complete your configuration for four
> > hours and a half, after one hour of preparation, topology redraws,
> > etc.
> >
> > Otherwise I could say the lab itself was pretty straightforward I've
> > been using InternetWorkExpert workbooks for my preparation and can
> > definitely say that the lab was easier than their score-8 labs. I
> > never had to open the Cisco documentation CD throughout my
> > configuration and for me at least the lab was a clear matter of time
> > management you have tens of easy things you have to do within eight
> > hours so hurry up and do them, while checking them one time right
> > after configuring and one time after a clean fresh reload of the rack
> > at the end.
> >
> > As for preparation here are the facts about mine:
> >
> > I started with IP Expert workbooks they were good but since I bought
> > them before the ATM/etc removal, I decided to not upgrade with their
> > newer version and instead got the Internetworkexpert workbooks.
> >
> > I find the latter definitely the best preparation tool I like the
> > way the IEWB are structured, I like their general approach, they are
> > also closer to the lab format. After going through half of their
> > volume one, I decided to step back and get their CoD product which got
> > me some additional understanding of the technologies things you
> > don't usually read in a cisco press book or on the DocCD if you have
> > some extra money buy it, I'm not saying you cannot pass without it
> > though. At the time I purchased the IEWB books, I realized that
> > studying every weekend and in the evenings is not getting me anywhere
> > so I negotiated with my company to have two extra days off each
> > week.
> > This completely changed my preparation I wasn't anymore tired every
> > day I started working on my CCIE preparation from Friday to Monday
> > and I could really feel how the labs got easier and easier with every
> > next week. My preparation strategy was simple don't just do the lab
> > always stop when you come across something you don't understand
> > read all possible theory behind the subject, make notes and keep all
> > your notes this notes are the best last-day preparation tool.
> > At the end of the IEWB workbooks I realized that the worst think that
> > could happen in the lab is to have a basic connectivity task I can't
> > implement for example, what if they ask me to do PPPoE link between
> > the two parts of the network , or give me an Frame-relay task I'm not
> > familiar with. That's why I took the Core Workbook from IE and started
> > working on the ten labs from there. You really want to make sure you
> > know how to resolve any possible connectivity task frame-relay,
> > Ethernet, PPP.
> > As you see, my preparation was completely messed - I started with lab
> > workbooks, then read some theory again and watched the CoD, then went
> > on with the corebooks this worked for me and I'm sure something
> > completely different will work for you!
> >
> > The lab exam is doable it is definitely not as much as you think
> > right now, while preparing. Just keep one thing in mind at the end
> > of the day it's a "Routing and Switching" Exam this is the most
> > important part of your preparation. Don't expect to have the most
> > complex tasks coming from the security section or from the IP Services
> > section. And after all complexity is subjective and always depends
> > on how you have prepared!
> >
> > Good luck!
> > Rado
> >
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