From: Roman Rodichev (roman@iementor.com)
Date: Mon Jan 28 2008 - 09:54:04 ARST
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Roman Rodichev
5xCCIE #7927 (R&S, Security, Voice, Storage, Service Provider)
Instructor, Content Developer. ieMentor Corporation
http://www.iementor.com
Y!M: roman7927
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Gary Duncanson [mailto:gary.duncanson@googlemail.com]
> Sent: Monday, January 28, 2008 3:08 AM
> To: subodh.rawat@wipro.com
> Cc: ccielab@groupstudy.com; Roman Rodichev
> Subject: Re: How i became CCIE -- caution Huge Post
>
> Don't IEMENTOR do R&S?
>
> Roman?
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: <subodh.rawat@wipro.com>
> To: <farhan.anwar@gmail.com>; <ccielab@groupstudy.com>
> Sent: Monday, January 28, 2008 3:17 AM
> Subject: RE: How i became CCIE -- caution Huge Post
>
>
> > Nice post Farhan...Surely will help many aspirants.
> >
> > IEMENTOR for R&S????
> >
> > Regards
> > Subodh
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: nobody@groupstudy.com [mailto:nobody@groupstudy.com] On Behalf Of
> > Farhan Anwar
> > Sent: Sunday, January 27, 2008 6:57 AM
> > To: Cisco certification
> > Subject: How i became CCIE -- caution Huge Post
> >
> > Hi All,
> >
> > Since my last post regarding my CCIE# i have received countless unicasts
> > from different professionals asking for advice on how to start their
> > studies and how i did it in the first attempt. Finally since I am still
> > resting and evaluating Job Offers in my mailbox :) , I have decided to
> > write my journey towards becoming a ccie. I couldn't find any better
> > place than the GS itself so pardon me if you don't like the size of it.
> > Here it goes, pardon me for any typos and NO I don't work for any
> > workbook vendor ;), telling ya straight.
> >
> > I started preparing for the CCIE roughly 4 years ago when i did the CCIE
> > Routing & Switching Training from a local institute during my studies.
> > But then I entered in the professional field, got married ;) and things
> > slowed down to a halt due to my OTHER activities.
> >
> > I started my personal goal again over 1.5 years ago but things were
> > going very slow, until i finally decided to take CCIE Certification
> > Seriously and devote time and resources to it, i started studying in
> > nights and on whole weekends. For Practicing I was in search of low-cost
> > lab equipment when a friend told me about dynamips as a Cisco 7200
> > Router Simulator; i was impressed with the performance and its ease of
> > use. I immediately started searching for its features, configuration
> > settings and found a detailed article from Brian Mcghan of
> > internetworkexpert explaining dynamips, furthermore the HACKI's forum
> > was very much helpful in the initial stages of dynamips / dynagen
> > experiences.
> >
> > I tuned, tweaked and optimized dynamips configuration files and idlepc
> > values for one month while practicing my Routing Techniques on it, and
> > it was in JANUARY 2007. A CCIE Friend told me about
> > internetworkexpert.com. And also about the groupstudy.com, At that time
> > I didn't have a clear view of what to study how to do it and what to
> > practice for the CCIE due to a number of topics being covered in the R&S
> > Program. Brian's detailed CCIE R&S Topics list in their Free Resources
> > section helped me enormously till the last day for tracking my
> > performance and topics to cover.
> >
> > I already had a strong base in IGP and BGP but i was weak in Advanced
> > Switching, QoS, Security and Multicasting. For getting an edge in
> > non-core topics i reviewed KnowledgeNet QoS and Multicast. I polished my
> > security and Switching skills using the Cisco DocCD.
> >
> > Afterwards, i started viewing Class on Demand Videos of Internetwork
> > Expert. After digesting that video of several hours in one month by
> > seeing it again and again. I started doing Advanced Technology Labs on
> > Dynamips. It took me another one and a half month to finish them off
> > completely and tuning Dynamips Topological File for Advanced Technology
> > Labs, i changed the interfaces, switch connections and frame-relay
> > topology to suit my needs. Some Tasks were not supported in Dynamips
> > such as Dot1x Tunneling, VLAN ACLs, RSPAN, Dynamic Trunking etc. so i
> > skipped them and lateron rented a rack several times for practicing
> > those specific topics. During this time, i reviewed the CoD countless
> > times to gain a deeper understanding of technologies.
> >
> > My next move was to purchase a dedicated dynamips server to support my
> > topology as my laptop was not enough for it, i purchased an AMD Athlon
> > 64 4400+ with 2 GiG RAM as a dynamips server machine. Here Scott
> > Vermillion came to the rescue as I was using Windows as my primary OS
> > but I failed miserably in running the full topology, Scott insisted and
> > encouraged me to use linux as at that time he was using MacOSX.
> > You can find my huge post in the GS Archives.
> >
> > I started doing the Core-Labs as my next move to improve my IGP, BGP and
> > Redistribution skills, additional one month just for the 10 Labs, they
> > surely were hard as i think now :). Core Labs were done easily done on
> > the Dynamips Server that i had purchased because they focused on IGP,
> > Redistribution and BGP the most. Switching was mostly simple and when i
> > was stuck with an unsupported task, i always skipped it and did them
> > later on a rented rack if I had the chance.
> >
> > Finally i started R&S Workbook Labs, the first five labs were just warm
> > up labs as the authors said but they looked really hard to me at the
> > first glance, they can be done using Dynamips but some tasks were
> > skipped in Switching. Initially it took me 3 days to finish only one lab
> > with research on every topic. When i reached Lab5 i gained speed,
> > accuracy and got familiar with most of the problems. Lab5 was done in
> > 13 Hours in first attempt on my dynamips.
> >
> > I continued doing the workbook labs 6,7,8,9 and 10. The hardest of all
> > was Lab 7 which again took me two days to figure out. After finishing
> > Lab10 i almost knew all of the problems and i could solve most of the
> > tasks at the back of my head. Labs 11 - 13 i did with a pencil just to
> > save some time. Then I did all the remaining 14 b 20 Labs. Next, I
> > rented rack equipment and did several labs on them again. Again My CCIE
> > friend came to rescue and generously gave access to his own rack with 9
> > Routers and 2 3550's I used it to do Labs again and gained some speed
> > and accuracy. Thanks Ghias for that.
> >
> > In total I did the IE Labs 3 times on different equipment, 1st time on
> > Dynamips, 2nd time on rented rack and third time on Physical Rack.
> > Finally, in the last month, I reviewed most of the content again,
> > reviewed the Class on Demand Videos to refresh some of the topics such
> > as Catalyst QoS (freely available on internetworkexpert free resources
> > section), IP/IOS Services, Multicasting, Security and BGP. I took
> > references from the DocCD to memorize where to find stuff like Router
> > Menus, WCCP, Nat, Reflexive ACLs, CBAC, IGMP Filtering, Multicast Stub
> > Routing, IPv6 etc.
> >
> > I sat for lab in dubai on 22nd Jan 2008 and fortunately attained the
> > number in the first attempt. For the last 2 nights i couldn't sleep and
> > i just kept on praying and building strategies like should i do
> > frame-relay first restart the routers then go on switching or the
> > otherway around etc etc..
> >
> > Well, I hope this LONG LONG Post will help most of the people who
> > emailed me for guidance on how to start and where to search the
> > material. I specifically used IE Material but I have also seen other
> > vendor's workbooks such as IPEXPERT, IEMENTOR, Soup-to-Nuts etc. and I
> > have found them equally good for practicing the labs. It's a personal
> > preference and what your company/budget allows you to purchase.
> >
> > Lastly, i would say, this was my technique, i cannot guarantee that
> > following this one could lead you to success but it worked for me. I did
> > the core-labs first, authors dont recommend this way, but i did it.
> >
> > Regards,
> > --
> > Farhan Anwar
> > CCIE(R) .N9lN9..N9lN9. #19871
> > www.farhananwar.com
> >
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