From: Scott Morris (smorris@ipexpert.com)
Date: Sun Jul 08 2007 - 21:10:23 ART
Congratulations on your great accomplishment!!!
And be VERY nice to your understanding wife! (Congratulations on that as
well! It will make the CCIE seem quite insignificant!)
Scott Morris, CCIE4 (R&S/ISP-Dial/Security/Service Provider) #4713, JNCIE
#153, CISSP, et al.
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-----Original Message-----
From: nobody@groupstudy.com [mailto:nobody@groupstudy.com] On Behalf Of
James Russell
Sent: Sunday, July 08, 2007 12:26 PM
To: ccielab@groupstudy.com
Subject: CCIE #18397; Cliffs notes included
Ultra-short version: Passed R&S on 1st try at RTP. Woot!
Short version: Passed R&S on 1st try at RTP. Thanks to (in no particular
order) my pregnant wife for being so understanding, The Brians, Scott
Morris, Narbik, those of you who took time to answer my unicast questions,
and everyone who posts on GS.
Long version: Wow, I'm still shaking! I started my journey in June of last
year. I had no Cisco experience at all, but I started the CCNA. Got that
on July 19th. Got hired as a network engineer and got my CCNP in October.
Started on the written in Jan of this year and passed on Feb 3rd. Then I
started on the lab. I used a well-known vendor's workbook, and the
following books:
Routing TCP/IP Vols I and II
Internet Routing Architectures
Wendell Odom's QoS Exam Cert Guide
BCMSN Exam Cert Guide
The DocCD (duh!)
My study routine usually consisted of renting 11 hours of rack time every
Saturday, and doing one of the labs 2 times. I would then spend the next
week reviewing the lab and configuring any confusing parts on my mini-lab at
work. As the weeks progressed, I would take some labs and do them all in
Windows notepad. No tabs or question marks to help. I also read the
complete command references several times for all routing protocols, QoS,
frame relay, IP applications, IP addressing, switching, etc etc. Anything I
couldn't understand, I labbed it up until I did understand it.
Ok, now for the lab itself. While doing the lab, and after completing it, I
was kind of confused about the whole thing. Either the test was pretty
straightforward and I had passed, or I was completely missing stuff and I
failed miserably. My initial feeling was that it was pretty
straightforward. By lunch, I had read and at least attempted to configure
every single question on the lab. There were 3 or 4 that I had to skip and
come back to, though. After lunch, I went back and did those, which took
about an hour. I checked the whole thing and found a few errors. Checked
it all again, and found 1 or 2 errors. Checked it all AGAIN and found
nothing that looked wrong. By this time there was about 45 minutes left in
the lab.
People say time management is key, and they are right. In my case, it was
make sure you slow down and triple-check everything. In other cases, it
might be to not spend too much time on 1 problem. The proctors were very
nice and helpful. They even asked me about one of my tattoos!
Well, that's it. I'm going to eat some lunch!
James Russell Jr.
CCIE #18397
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