From: Deji Steve-Fagbemi (deji500@hotmail.com)
Date: Mon Jan 15 2007 - 18:58:33 ART
GS,
To all those who offered various tips and advice and words of encouragement,
I am very grateful. I hope to share my experience with you after my lab
unless I am extremely miserable (in which case I'll just burn my lab and all
my Cisco books).
Once again, I am thankful for your advice.
Deji
-----Original Message-----
From: Danny Cox [mailto:dandermanuk@gmail.com]
Sent: Monday, January 15, 2007 8:58 PM
To: Scott Morris
Cc: deji500@hotmail.com; ccielab@groupstudy.com
Subject: Re: RE: Brussels next week
I didn't see the original for this - don't know why. Perhaps it got
caught in the spam filters or something .... anyway ..
Brussels - last time I went, I flew out from London City airport,
which worked very nicely. It's quick and leaves you by the airport
which is where you want to be - the train will leave you in the heart
of Brussels.
Near Brussels airport are a number of hotels, including Holiday Inn
and the Holiday Inn Express, NH and others. The Cisco office is only
a short walk from them. I suggest you get to your hotel the day
before and ask the reception where the hotel is. Once you've got your
bearings, take a walk to find the office so you know what you're doing
the following day. They'll want you there before 08.00 so you want to
have an easy time finding it if you're a night-owl (like me).
Holiday Inn has a little swimming pool in it, so take your trunks if
you choose to stay there and like to swim.
Getting home on the 20.25 is no problem at all - you're only about ten
minutes drive from the airport at the Cisco offices. You'll want to
kill time so just head back to your hotel, or another one and sit in
the bar for a bit, then get the free shuttle bus to the airport. Some
hotels need you to tell them and ask the bus to come, others just do
it in rotation, but either way, it's easy enough.
You'll have no problems with your belongings - they just get put at
the back of the room you're doing the exam in, and that's locked at
lunchtime when you're not there.
Don't let this bit get you down - it is easier than you might fear.
Have a quick play with what Victor's shown for the tcl scripts - it's
worth doing. You can collect your IP addresses for each router as you
go along and store them in files, or use a 'show ip aliases' on each
router then cut down the output in notepad and build the tcl script.
You can certainly do manual pings, but the script makes it easier.
Lastly, know that we've many of us been there and felt the stress, but
we've all come through the other side.
I wish you well and every success
Danny
On 15/01/07, Scott Morris <swm@emanon.com> wrote:
> I can't answer your questions about the flight schedules as I haven't
flown
> in/out of Brussels before. If you're only going to London, what about the
> train? That was what I had taken anyway. *shrug*
>
> As for anxiety, try hard to relax! Don't study the day before. You
likely
> will not retain anything new anyway, so spend the time relaxing. Site-see
> if you haven't been to Brussels before, just wander around. Have a good
> dinner (not much alcohol!) and go to bed early. Plenty of sleep will help
a
> lot!
>
> As for TCL scripts, you can get away with manual pings it's just that the
> TCL makes it faster. There are plenty of examples if you search the
> archives here and it really is not a complicated script just to ping!
> (There is much about TCL that is above my head and level of care!) but
> manual works just as well, just slower.
>
> If Brussels is like any other lab, they should have a place for your
> belongings while you take your lab. But I have no idea how far away from
> the airport it is, so sorry I can't help with that!
>
> Best of luck in your exam!!!
>
>
> Scott Morris, CCIE4 (R&S/ISP-Dial/Security/Service Provider) #4713, JNCIE
> #153, CISSP, et al.
> CCSI/JNCI-M/JNCI-J
> IPexpert VP - Curriculum Development
> IPexpert Sr. Technical Instructor
> smorris@ipexpert.com
> http://www.ipexpert.com
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: nobody@groupstudy.com [mailto:nobody@groupstudy.com] On Behalf Of
> deji500@hotmail.com
> Sent: Monday, January 15, 2007 1:04 PM
> To: ccielab@groupstudy.com
> Subject: Brussels next week
>
> Hi GS,
>
> I have my big day next week (1st attempt) and just want some tips from
what
> not to eat to what not to wear. Basically, anything that will make my lab
> experience more comfortable.
>
> Is it safe to book my flight to leave brussels at night? The last flight
> back to london that night is at 8.25 pm Brussels time. Will i have
> sufficient time to get back to the airport or should i just stay the
night?
>
> When will i know the big decision after the exam?
>
> How do i overcome anxiety the night before the exam? Its still a few days
> away and i am so nervous.
>
> Do i really need to use TCL scripts or can i just do manual pings (I don't
> know how to do TCL pings).
>
> If i check out of the hotel in the morning, will i be able to put my
things
> in a safe area while i take the lab?
>
> How far is the centre from the airport?
>
> Any suggestions would be very welcome.
>
> Thanks for your anticipated input.
>
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