From: Brad Ellis (brad@ccbootcamp.com)
Date: Wed Nov 22 2006 - 17:34:41 ART
Alexei,
congrats again! You're the first person I know to pass the "new" format.
It's quite an achievement!
thanks,
Brad Ellis
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Alexei Monastyrnyi" <alexeim@orcsoftware.com>
To: <ccielab@groupstudy.com>
Sent: Wednesday, November 22, 2006 10:37 AM
Subject: Re: was in Brussels yesterday...
>A bit of details.
>
> It was my 5th attempt on R&S Lab.
>
> My life with Cisco, in a nutshell :-)
>
> 18-08-2001 - CCNA
> 03-12-2001 - CCNP
> 24-11-2003 - CCIE R&S Written Exam
> 15-11-2004 - CCNP recertification
> 19-05-2005 - Lab Failure 1
> 11-01-2006 - Lab Failure 2
> 28-02-2006 - Lab Failure 3 (it was very close)
> 03-04-2006 - Lab Failure 4 (same close)
> 21-11-2006 - Lab Passed
>
> As you see, had I got a failure this time I would have had to re-take
> the written exam. :-)
>
> First attempt I was far cry from understanding things, then it got
> better but still not good enough, last two times I failed only due to my
> "phenomenal" distraction. like putting FCE in link-local IPv6 instead of
> FEC on the third one...
>
> Taking IE MOC lab I scored 55 two weeks before this exam. I missed 23
> points because of distraction. (and another 12 because of wrong scoring,
> the rest was my bad). Thanks IE team and Brians et al for their great
> job! So, last two weeks I was working on my attention to tasks
> implementation.
>
> About the exam itself: without breaking NDA, I can safely say that with
> introducing more than 2 switches one can logically expect a heavier L2
> section in terms of access/distribution/core interaction, modern STP
> implementations etc. I think it will be covered in all workbooks soon,
> IE sample lab proves that. And that is it. One shouldn't be scared out
> by that. You are all good to go, not a major change. :-)
>
> About Brussels Lab facilities and proctors. As you may safely guess, I
> know it pretty well. :-) They recently upgraded stuff to better PCs at
> work places, very nice. Proctors are friendly and help with clarifying
> questions, no probs here. I was probably the most asker last time. :-)
> Just to make sure I understand things right and feel more confident
> during the Lab. But Brussels is no-go for me for a while, too many
> visits. :-)
>
> And finally THANKS. Thanks to Brians, Scott, Brad, Narbik, Andrew Bruce
> and other gurus for contributing their time and efforts to this SG. Your
> participation here is just priceless.
>
> Thanks to Petr, Victor and many others (you know your names, guys) for
> the inspiration and help with word and did.
>
> Thanks to all SG readers for reading my posts, sometime off the
> track.:-) Concerned of correct answers I always tried to check before
> posting. And this approach helped me a lot to learn stuff I was talking
> about.
>
> I firmly believe you are ALL gonna make it, sooner or later.
>
> Just believe in yourself (different from being opinionated :-) )
>
> Cheers,
> A.
>
> PS
> and proudly added "CCIE #17234" :-)
>
> Alexei Monastyrnyi wrote:
>> .... and got my digits!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
>>
>> 17234
>>
>> just lost for words for now..... :-)
>>
>> It finally happened - I'm slightly mad
>>
>> Will give you more details later today.
>> But on the first hand - THANKS A MILLION to all of you guys, we did
>> that together.
>> A.
>>
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