From: Loc Pham (ccie17030@yahoo.com)
Date: Mon Mar 26 2007 - 10:46:59 ART
Congratulation, Jerald.
Enjoy the rest & " free-time " of 8 hrs sleeping
;-).
FYI: Scott is not really an human. It's an alias for
a AI robot modeling to distribute-list out CCIE routes
on-demand ;-))) He he.
lP
--- "Hulbert, Jerald"
<Jerry.Hulbert@flukenetworks.com> wrote:
> All,
> Just wanted to say thanks to those who helped me
> pass the lab last
> Thursday in RTP. This was my third attempt, but my
> first since the fall
> of 2004. A special thanks to the Brian's at
> InternetworkExpert and of
> course, the folks (Bruce, Val and Bob) over at NMC.
>
> I went through the labs from both vendors noted
> above and the Class on
> Demand from IE. I have nothing but great things to
> say about their R&S
> products.
>
> I used the Core and Technology Labs from IE. These
> products were great,
> because I really was only getting about 4-6 hours a
> week in studying
> (other than the NMC classes below) and these
> products allowed me to
> focus on my speed and my weak areas.
>
> Last November, I took both NMC-1 & NMC-2 courses in
> Herndon, VA. These
> classes were terrific and helped me to prepare
> mentally for the actual
> lab. Another big plus about these classes was that
> I was able to
> utilize my GI Bill to help pay for them.
>
> I went through NMC's new IPv6 video as well. I
> would strongly recommend
> this to everyone. After going through the entire
> series, all of my IPv6
> tasks on my practice labs became non-trivial. It
> was easy to "spot the
> issue" and then implement the correct configuration.
> Thanks Anthony,
> and go Red Sox!
>
> I took several CheckIT's from NMC in January and one
> Mock Lab from IE
> last week.
>
> I also utilized two other "free" resources to help
> me. The first one is
> Group Study. I mostly lurked on this mailing list
> as I was usually
> about 2-3 weeks behind in reading the posts, but
> intelligence and
> experience that is conveyed here cannot be
> replicated anywhere else. So
> thanks to everyone! One quick question: Does Scott
> Morris ever sleep?
> Thanks Scott and everyone else for your efforts to
> this group!
>
> The second one is www.cisco.com. I would sometimes
> print a section out
> of the CCO and take it to one of my daily meetings
> at work and read
> through area's that I was really weak in. IE has a
> nice layout of CCO
> URL's based on the R&S Lab Blueprint that helped me
> with this.
>
> I only have a few tips:
>
> Don't wait long (30 months for me) in between lab
> attempts. Try to stay
> focused on the technologies in the Blueprint. I
> unfortunately have some
> serious ongoing medical issues within my immediate
> family that I'm
> dealing with, so the importance of taking the lab
> seemed to keep
> slipping away.
>
> Know the UniverCD well. I was and I still am
> horrible at this. Some
> people say that you should be able to find anything
> within "5 clicks".
> I couldn't do this, and it did slow me down a few
> times. I would have
> easily saved 15 minutes if I could locate certain
> areas within the
> UniverCD better.
>
> Read it and then "lab it up". Try to understand the
> technology first
> and then how Cisco implements this technology. Then
> "dumb it down",
> meaning make the technology and implementation
> non-trivial. Know what
> the additional command options are and what they
> were intended for. Use
> debug and show commands to see the before and after
> results each time
> you configure something, especially on everything
> that is considered
> "Core" to the lab.
>
> Thanks,
> Jerry Hulbert
> 17613
>
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