From: subodh.rawat@wipro.com
Date: Thu Feb 07 2008 - 06:00:54 ARST
Congrates Ben...
Very well done.
~Subodh
-----Original Message-----
From: nobody@groupstudy.com [mailto:nobody@groupstudy.com] On Behalf Of
Ben Holko
Sent: Thursday, February 07, 2008 4:42 AM
To: ccielab@groupstudy.com
Subject: CCIE #19956 - first go!
Greetings all,
I sat the R&S exam in Tokyo on Feb 6th, and thankfully I passed. This
was my first attempt. A big thankyou to everyone on this list who
contributes, both those with valid questions and those who answer them.
I took the written in September of 2006, began lab study on and off in
early 2007, but really hit it hard from July, and studying full time for
the 6 weeks prior to the lab. The only study materials I used for the
lab were the InternetworkExpert workbook 4.1, the DocCD, and groupstudy.
I have my own rack at home, which I think helped immensely, I did try a
rack rental and while it worked fine, I preferred the flexibility of not
HAVING to do everything in a neat 8 hour period to match the rack
rental, although I did do most of the labs in one sitting, finishing
them in under 5 hours by the end of my studies. My rack consists of 4
physical 3550 switches and Dynamips running on a Dell PowerEdge 2450.
Taking the lab in Tokyo, I also got prepared months ago by buying a
Japanese keyboard off ebay so I would be comfortable on the day - the
only major differences to a US keyboard is the location of some of the
special characters (* ? / \ etc) and the tiny spacebar.
The biggest thankyou of all goes to the creators of Dynamips and Dynagen
- without these I doubt I could have gotten this far so quickly.
Cheers,
Ben Holko
CCIE #19956
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