From: Scott Morris (smorris@ipexpert.com)
Date: Mon Mar 26 2007 - 16:39:25 ART
Congratulations!!! Glad to hear that things went well for you and made all
your efforts feel worthwhile now!
Now what are you going to do with all that free time? :)
And, occasionally I sleep! Heheheh...
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
Hulbert, Jerald
Sent: Monday, March 26, 2007 9:22 AM
To: ccielab@groupstudy.com
Subject: Passed R&S in RTP
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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