From: Narbik Kocharians (narbikk@gmail.com)
Date: Thu Nov 23 2006 - 15:48:36 ART
All the best mate.
On 11/22/06, Beomsu Kim <beokim@earthlink.net> wrote:
>
> Congratulations!!!!
>
> Your track record is very similar to mine.
> I passed my R&S Written on Nov 23, 2003.
> And I claimed my number on Sep 1, 2006.
> The difference is that I have more failures than you do.
> But I am not mad at all, nothing but happy and still enjoying the
> moment. :)
>
> Have a good holiday!!!
>
> Beomsu Kim
> R&S CCIE#16814.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: nobody@groupstudy.com [mailto:nobody@groupstudy.com] On Behalf Of
> Alexei Monastyrnyi
> Sent: Wednesday, November 22, 2006 12:37 PM
> To: ccielab@groupstudy.com
> 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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-- Narbik Kocharians CCIE# 12410 (R&S, SP, Security) CCSI# 30832
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