From: Sean C (upp_and_upp@hotmail.com)
Date: Tue Feb 13 2007 - 15:48:14 ART
Hi Anuraag,
Congrats on the digits!!! Considering you passed the lab 4 months ago and
are only posting now, perhaps my congrats should wait a few months. ;-)
Also - I like the CCIE number - 17083
Sean C #17085
----- Original Message -----
From: <akbhardwaj@sympatico.ca>
To: <ccielab@groupstudy.com>
Sent: Tuesday, February 13, 2007 10:39 AM
Subject: Number 17083! Sorry that I forgot to post about it..
> Hi folks,
>
> this email is a bit delayed and I apologise for it, but I passed my CCIE
> (Service Provider) lab exam in Brussels back in October, 2006, on my first
> attempt.
>
> My reference material primarily came from Cisco's univercd: every article
> that touched upon a subject in the lab blueprint was read and incorporated
> into my lab scenarios. I had read Vivek Alwayn's "Advanced MPLS Design
> and Implementation" from cover to cover; kudos to the author for
> delivering this dense topic so skillfully. Several IETF RFCs referenced
> in the univercd were read, and finally Jeff Doyle's Routing TCP/IP Vol. 1
> and 2 were used as a desk reference.
>
> Winnet Systems provided my lab scenarios. The instructors were very
> skilled at challenging my knowledge of the subject material: it took me
> many, many attempts to get the results that they wanted. I estimated that
> at least four hours of every day for the last six months were spent doing
> these scenarios from left to right, upside down, and backwards :) .
>
> The lab exam was pretty challenging, but touched upon all the subjects
> covered in the blueprint. My advise to anybody attempting this lab is to
> read up on the material in the blueprint before starting your lab
> scenarios. Keep hacking away at your scenarios: try to configure your
> rack in different ways to understand the interaction that MP-BGP/MPLS has
> with the various routing protocols. Then try to break this relationship
> and view the results. At the least, you'll feel confident that you can
> deal with anything that Cisco can throw at you in the lab!
>
> Good luck to everybody attempting the Service Provider lab. I had a lot
> of fun studying for it! Now if I could only write shell scripts as good
> as I could configure a router ... my next area of study :) .
>
>
> Cheers,
>
> Anuraag K. Bhardwaj, CCIE # 17083.
>
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