From: Darby Weaver (darbyweaver@yahoo.com)
Date: Fri Sep 28 2007 - 07:41:31 ART
Congrats Ryan!!!
Glad to see you made it. I suppose that SP is the
next in the lineup gven your background?
Let me know offline.
My compliments.
Darby
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: nobody@groupstudy.com
> > [mailto:nobody@groupstudy.com] On Behalf Of
> > Ryan Morris
> > Sent: Wednesday, September 26, 2007 1:21 PM
> > To: Cisco certification
> > 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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