From: Kim (support@isolvesystems.com)
Date: Mon May 28 2007 - 09:21:54 ART
Haukur,
Congratulations!!!
Kim
On 5/28/07, Haukur ^srparson <haukur@sensa.is> wrote:
>
> ________________________________
>
> From: Haukur ^srparson
> Sent: sun. 27.5.2007 10:22
> To: ccielab@groupstudy.com
> Subject: CCIE # 18026
>
>
>
> Hi GS,
> I just got my number in my third attempt, I've been a silent listener on
> GS
> for about 10 months now and the thoughts going around here are very
> informative and helped alot in my preparation.
>
> About my study, CCIE has been my goal from 1999 when I took my CCNA, I was
> not
> studying the whole time but last one and half year I've been studying
> pretty
> hard for the CCIE.
> I took CCNP in 2001 and then I took some break until 2004 when I took
> CCDP
> and year after that, late 2005, CCIP. I thought of CCIP like a way to
> prepair
> for CCIE written the exams there filled in some of my gaps for CCIE
> written,
> like BGP and QoS. I finished the written in begining of 2006 and began
> the
> study for the lab.
> I desided to keep my studying on both lab workbook and then I also
> wanted to
> take a bootcamp.
> I used the workbook from Internetwork Experts which I thought was pretty
> good.
> In october 2006 I went to a bootcamp with H. U. (CCIE#1561) in Denver
> and
> that bootcamp got me to look at all the little things that I thought
> doesn't
> matter but they certainly matter when you are taking the lab. Also the
> speed
> improvements on configuring, I probably got 2x faster after that bootcamp.
> After my two attempts that didn't go that well, I decided to take a week
> mock lab to find out where I was failing so I went to a mock lab with
> Narbik
> Kocharians (CCIE#12410 R&S,SP,Security) at NLI. During that week we sat
> configuring all day from 9 o'clock in the morning until late in the
> evening
> and Narbik was with us all the time and was always ready to answer
> questions
> about everything and explained everything very well. In that mocklab week
> we
> also went through a focused material on certain subjects that Narbik just
> wrote, that material I think helped me alot getting maximum knowledge in
> each
> area.
>
> R.
> Haukur Thordarson
> CCIE#18026
>
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