From: Sean C (upp_and_upp@hotmail.com)
Date: Wed Sep 26 2007 - 13:52:36 ART
Hi Ryan
Congrats on the digits!!
Sean C #17085
----- Original Message -----
From: "Ryan Morris" <ryan@egate.net>
To: "Cisco certification" <ccielab@groupstudy.com>
Sent: Wednesday, September 26, 2007 3:50 AM
Subject: CCIE #18953
> Hi everyone,
>
> I sat for my R&S lab for the first time today at RTP today... and passed!
> 16,921 Groupstudy messages have provided the insight and motivation I
> needed to get through in one shot.
>
> A quick overview: I've worked with Cisco equipment off and on since 1999,
> intensely for 5 years. Finished the CCNP & CCDP in Spring 2006. I
> started preparing for the written in September '06 and completed it in
> December. At work I was able to assemble a lab with leftover 2600s and
> 3640s to mimic the IPExpert lab book, and later I rewired it to match the
> NMC DoIT lab book.
>
> From January to September I worked through these two books (I didn't
> finish NMC). 2 - 4 hours most nights and days on the weekend. IPExpert
> provides a great ramp up on all the technologies and covers most topics
> well. NMC provided that last push on things like Catalyst QoS, 4 switch
> spanning tree and other things. I would split the labs into two parts,
> and perform the core routing and switch one evening and the services,
> security and QoS the second. I knew I was getting close when I was
> finishing labs in a single evening. Upon completion of a lab I would
> review the doc CD on all the topics that had to look up. The NMC answer
> key is also a great resource.
>
> I wrote 3 NMC CheckIT labs, once each week leading up to the exam. I
> passed two out of three of these and felt I was ready. Honestly, these
> labs were much tougher than the actual CCIE lab test I took.
>
> Thanks to everyone who posted to this list, I learned a lot from
> reviewing your issues and labbing up the more arcane questions. Thanks to
> the lab proctor who sent me back to my workbook 3 times on one question
> (the answer was staring me in the face), and thank goodness I found a
> really dumb typo at 3:00 in the afternoon that would have lost me all my
> BGP marks. And a special thanks to my wife who spent all those evenings
> and weekends alone with our (now) 15 month old daughter.
>
> My advice to everyone: ask the proctor. They may be clear as mud, but if
> you know your stuff the suggestions will make sense. Second, everything I
> needed was right there in front of me, in the drawings and on the
> question sheets. When I thought my rack was mucked up, it was all me.
>
> I'm flying home tomorrow for a few much needed days off and time with my
> family, and I can't wait to pick up my guitar again.
>
> Good luck to all. I hope my story provides motivation to everyone.
>
> Ryan Morris, CCIE #18953
>
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