From: subodh.rawat@wipro.com
Date: Fri Nov 02 2007 - 01:40:04 ART
Congratulations phill!!!
HTH
Subodh
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From: nobody@groupstudy.com [mailto:nobody@groupstudy.com] On Behalf Of
Phillip Day
Sent: Wednesday, October 31, 2007 11:32 AM
To: ccielab@groupstudy.com
Subject: I don't mean to brag but.......
Ok I've finally come down from the cloud I was on when I found last
night that I passed the R&S lab on my second attempt in Brussels. Up to
now, I've always thought it to be a bit self-indulgent and gratuitous to
post a long life story about yourself to a group of people that you have
mostly never met, but nonetheless here it is!
I started out in Networking about half way through 2003 after giving up
on my
8 year professional boxing career. I had realised that I probably
wasn't the next Tyson, and as such was struggling to pay the bills.
Since I didn't have a relevant C.V. to put out, I gradually over the
next few months started to pad it out by studying and getting Microsoft
MCPs whilst working on a helpdesk. After about six months I landed my
MCSE (the old-fashioned way without brain dumps!) and found that I had
got quite used to reading long technical books, so I did a CCNA and got
hooked on Cisco. Over the next 2-3 years and 2-3 job changes I gained
my CCNP, CCDP, and CCIP by reading the
Cisco Press books. A colleague from my current job (not naming names
Dave
M!) persuaded me that I should get the CCIE Written out of the way, and
study with him for the lab. I did both. I used the Internetwork Expert
workbook after realising that CBT Nuggets probably wasn't going to do
the job for me!
Then this summer I went to the NMC Bootcamp which got me practically
ready for the real thing. After working through the NMC 'Doit' Labs
which are mostly cruelly difficult, I felt ready for the real thing.
I went to Brussels in August and failed fairly miserably because of the
pressure of the occasion and also I think I half expected to get it in
the same format as a Checkit lab, which sadly it wasn't! Having dusted
off my pride and got back into lab practices, I booked again for
yesterday and went there expecting it to be less tough. It was, but
still I had to work for it.
I was still on the plane home doubting I had passed but the good news
came a few hours later after I got home.
I'd just like to thank the constructive posters on Groupstudy, Val, Bob,
Bruce and Indy at NMC, The two Brians for the IE Class on Demand and
finally Dave Mumford and the Technical Support guys at Telindus UK.
Phill Day CCIE#19190
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