From: Digital Yemeni (digital.yemeni@gmail.com)
Date: Wed Mar 28 2007 - 02:12:16 ART
Ah you reminded me of my first time! I almost wanted to forget about not
only Cisco but also IT altogether! until now i sometimes feel like so ;-)
though it was close and i knew my mistakes, the pressure was just intense!
with bad time management, made the lab a BIG FAIL!
I'll give myself one more chance and see how it goes! it was horrible, it
was painful, it was...ah man it's money that i paid not papers OK! hahahahah
:D
On 3/28/07, Darby Weaver <darbyweaver@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> Olayemi,
>
> You put up a good fight my friend. Some of the last
> minute items we discussed showed that you do have a
> superior knowledge of each topic.
>
> The first time is always a learning experience and it
> sounds like you have learned a lot.
>
> My compliments.
>
> Let me know if I can be of further assistance.
>
> Darby
> --- "Salau,Olayemi" <Olayemi.Salau@southampton.gov.uk>
> wrote:
>
> > 1st Lab Attempt - Once Beaten, Twice Bold!!
> >
> > Hello Lads,
> >
> > To be honest, I don't know where to start from,
> > never envisage that I
> > will have to put up such a mail after my first
> > attempt. There was
> > nothing uncommon, which happened to me, it's been a
> > norm that people
> > don't pass at first attempt, I was baptised into
> > this norm 24hrs ago.
> >
> > It all started when I decided to pursue my magic
> > number, based on my
> > background and lots of commitments here and there,
> > couldn't afford the
> > pricey trainings and bootcamps around. So I decided
> > to do it all alone,
> > believe me it was 99% successful. I didn't even have
> > to buy any
> > textbooks ... my textbook was the DocDVD from which
> > I read in-to-to. But
> > I must give credits to the IE team for without their
> > materials, I
> > wouldn't have learnt so much from this wonderful
> > experience.
> > Surprisingly, in the exam didn't had to use DocDVD
> > much, I spent less
> > than 30mins altogether checking the DocDVD in the
> > Lab. Believe me, I was
> > very close to getting my magic number. I think I
> > knew what went wrong
> > and I'm saying this for those who are yet to have
> > the baptismal
> > experience of R&S Lab. I knew my stuffs, not
> > boasting now but as
> > expected, I knew how things work in and out ... very
> > thanks to the
> > GroupStudy Members, can't begin to start mentioning
> > names now ...
> > writing this on the train back to London. As a
> > matter of fact, I
> > finished all the tasks in the Lab, so why did I fail
> > then ... only one
> > answer.... I learnt on the 26th of March 2007 that
> > the almighty CCIE Lab
> > is not only a test of technologies but also a test
> > of time management.
> >
> > I literally completed my final task when the proctor
> > asked us to stop,
> > the approach I used in the exam was: verify after
> > each task, although it
> > works for some and don't for others. Being my first
> > real test under
> > pressure, this affected me, big time. I was so
> > nervous, by the way, I
> > found Diegem to be the most boring town that I've
> > ever been to. Maybe
> > partly due to the "Industrial Estate" - Pergasus
> > Park where I stayed, it
> > was too quite for my liking. But like I told someone
> > earlier today, I
> > wasn't there to watch the sky scrapers, so I kept my
> > focus, but I was so
> > so nervous. I arrived 2 days before the exam which I
> > regret doing now, I
> > couldn't sleep for 48 hours, finally got the Lab,
> > Proctor was so nice,
> > He made me undo the idea in my head about how evil
> > Proctors can be. He
> > even noticed I couldn't eat during launch and
> > persuaded me to take
> > something even if it's Banana and water. But didn't
> > have the course to
> > approach him, I was very conformable with the tasks.
> > Again what went
> > wrong ... ok, I'm don't feel bad, disappointed,
> > disgusted or sad at all,
> > I really am proud that I had to fail on first
> > attempt in other to learn
> > about time management in the hard way. With CCIE one
> > thing, is knowing
> > the technologies and how they work, another is time
> > management in the
> > Lab. Personally, I discovered you must have a TIME
> > MANAGEMENT APPROACH
> > to the tasks and think at a very high and fast
> > speed. Oh! I was so close
> > to getting the number ... now is not the time to
> > feel sorry for myself
> > at all, infact, I've quickly booked another Lab for
> > July 1st in Dubai,
> > that was the closest I could get, by the way, if any
> > of you (outside US)
> > want to drop your Lab Date, I need one in May very
> > badly. I won't
> > relent, no retreat, no surrender ... It's such a
> > mixture of salt and
> > sugar, an awful and wonderful experience. At least,
> > now I have first
> > hand information of what it takes to pass the CCIE -
> > that would be not
> > only the technologies, but also a good management
> > approach to things.
> > Troubleshooting wise, I discovered all the bad
> > configs injected for the
> > sake of testing whether candidates know their stuffs
> > ... but on 2
> > occasions ... had memory block, and it took about
> > 90mins to figure out
> > what went wrong. Before I knew it, it was launch
> > time, and before I knew
> > it, it was all over. You guys want to know the most
> > difficult of all the
> > tasks .... Waiting to know about your result ... a
> > part of you says
> > PASS, another says FAIL ... I had to wait close to
> > 14 hours to discover
> > that Cisco gave me another opportunity to attempt
> > the Lab, ofcourse, I
> > don't see myself as a failure, but saw that I needed
> > to work on speed,
> > speed of thinking and managing, and trust me ... I
> > WILL BE BACK ... I
> > will not stop until I get those numbers, even if it
> > means going into the
> > Lab every quarter of each year ... I now see how
> > honourable the CCIE
> > logo and number is, I commend all those who have
> > them, and for those who
> > are aspiring, never relent, it's not that difficult
> > afterall, don't let
> > anyone scare you, if you know your stuffs and can
> > beat your chest to it,
> > then work on speed and time management ... I had to
> > learn the hard way
> > ... But I'm proud of this, once beaten - twice shy
> > in deed.
> >
> > I've ordered some new kits, I will start practising
> > and brush up on
> > speed asap, if any one has a free slot in May/June
> > (Outside US, US Visa
> > is proving difficult to get these days, got Belgium
> > visa in 2 days), let
> > me know ...
> >
> > KEEPING THE DREAM ALIVE!, LIVING THE DREAM SOON!!
> >
> > Olayemi Salau
> >
> >
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-- Best Regards! Digital, CCIE# to be assigned by Cisco when it collects enough $$ out of me! :p
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