From: A.G. Ananth Sarma (GMail) (ananth.sarma@gmail.com)
Date: Sat Sep 22 2007 - 01:30:46 ART
Congrats Prashant.
Hoping to clear my R&S by mid next year.
Regards,
Ananth
On 9/19/07, Prashant Shukla <shukla_cisco@yahoo.co.in> wrote:
>
> Hey Guys,
>
> It seems many of the gentlemen here have questions, here are the excerpts:
>
> My technical experience standing at 8 yrs has initials of being a network
> trainer the moment i landed in networking field.After few years of network
> trainings i joined a firm primarily which was into campus networking which
> gave real world experience.
>
> As far as CCIE is concerned i picked up this track in early 2006 ,
> starting March, i gave my Qual in June '06, going through TCP Vol 1/2 9 .
> After which my hunt for dates began and got my first date in 24th Feb '07, i
> spent a savage 7 months of preparation from the IEWBs/CoDs/Doc-CD, trying
> and testing almost every cmd i could lay my hands on, this period was the
> most intense in my tech career.
>
> My first attempt was a disaster from the lab perspective, as i had full
> knowledge of the solutions, but didn't know how to attack the lab.Ialmost did everything i shouldn't be doing, I panicked, went into a rat-hole
> troubleshooting things and loosing ample time.
>
> Second time, I managed to book for 18th May, the dates came for few hours
> on CCO and we all wannabe-sharks pounced on those dates, second time i was
> more relaxed and finished FR/Switching/IGP section by lunch time, could
> almost see my number coming , till post lunch where i got rogered between
> troubleshooting BGP and Multicast. :-(
>
> 3rd time, i had narrowed my scope of learnings, i did not do any thing
> which i was comfortable with, switching/FR per se, just refreshed my IGPs
> and attacked "non-comfort-zone " areas viz , BGP/Multicasting/Route
> filtering and Route redistribution.This time i had kept many things for
> Doc-cd on which i can swear any time. Doc-cd is rich !! :-).
> With careful time management i could squeeze in 45 minutes of verification
> in which i found out 3 mistakes in configs.
>
> Key is to keep calm, read the questions "carefully", oversight can prove
> to be the thin line between the magic-number and another attempt.
>
> The Proctor was Brazilian , Maurilio Gorito, from San Jose, he was a gem.
>
> In GS i had only heard about good/helpful proctors, i encountered one this
> time.
>
> and dates in Bangalore are a big problem , still we had to hunt then down.
>
> Apologies for the long mail.
>
> Cheers
> Shukla
> CCIE#18868.
>
> mail: shukla.cisco@gmail.com
>
>
>
>
> Scott Morris <smorris@ipexpert.com> wrote: Congratulations!!!
>
>
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: nobody@groupstudy.com [mailto:nobody@groupstudy.com] On Behalf Of
> Prashant Shukla
> Sent: Wednesday, September 19, 2007 5:05 AM
> To: ccielab@groupstudy.com
> Subject: Passed In Bangalore:17th Sept: CCIE# 18868
>
> Gurus,
>
> After a battle with the technology and my understanding of it, i cleared
> my
> lab in Bangalore. This was my 3rd attempt.
>
> Though have been passive , i have learnt a lot with the questions posted
> and tried them manually on my topologies.
>
> Would like to thank all the participants in answering my queries.
>
> Brians/Scott/Narbik/Victor/Marvin , you guys have been doing a great job
> in
> assisting CCIE aspirants.
>
> Thanx
> Shukla
> CCIE#18868.
>
>
>
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