From: Darby Weaver (darbyweaver@yahoo.com)
Date: Fri Feb 08 2008 - 13:46:25 ARST
Congratulations Ben!!!
:)
> ----- 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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