From: Gary Duncanson (gary.duncanson@googlemail.com)
Date: Thu Feb 07 2008 - 09:59:47 ARST
Well done Ben.
Regards
Gary
----- Original Message -----
From: "Ben Holko" <ben@holnet.net>
To: <ccielab@groupstudy.com>
Sent: Wednesday, February 06, 2008 11:11 PM
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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