From: subodh.rawat@wipro.com
Date: Wed Feb 13 2008 - 15:15:08 ARST
JP..many congratulations.
I hope your cold war with Scott and IP Expert will be ended now.
Cheers
Subodh
-----Original Message-----
From: nobody@groupstudy.com [mailto:nobody@groupstudy.com] On Behalf Of
jatinder.p.singh@bt.com
Sent: Wednesday, February 13, 2008 5:48 PM
To: ccielab@groupstudy.com
Subject: Finally Pass Voice Lab on first attempt
Dear All,
Yesterday, I passed my ccie voice lab at brussels on my first attempt.
Firstly I would like to thank all who helped me towards achieving this
goal. Special thanks to Tarun pahuja, and the CCBootcamp team (Brad) who
gave me personal support. Even though I did not buy any of their
products they gave their personal contact details and helped me when I
needed much help.
I started this journey in early 2007, I cleared the written after
reading all the recommended cisco press books. Then my company supported
me in buying all the voice lab equipment which I setup in my office.
They also approved for me to go on a bootcamp, and I choose to go to the
IPexpert for 12 days.
I bought all IPexpert products including COD and spent more then
$10,000. However I found their bootcamp demoralizing and disappointing
. I was discouraged and told that no one could pass the lab in the
first attempt. I felt they were hiding things from me so as to prolong
my studies so as to keep me lingering on.. Their support was terrible,
their workbook had errors, little explanations and I found myself
spending hours being frustrated when things would not work due to
ommisions or things not explained properly. As a customer I expect a
teaching product to be accurate and explain things so as to reinforce
my technical abilities, but soon I discovered that their strategy was
to hide things, to make me it difficult instead and to mentally
discourage me so that I was guaranteed to fail on first attempt.
However I kept positive and determined to pass this exam and made a
challenge to pass it on my first attempt. I spent the next two months
off work and studying 15-18 hours per day and working on my weaknesses.
I consulted the cisco press books several times until I was comfortable
with every technology and spent hours on-hands practising on all the
technologies.
From my experience the lab was not as hard as I thought it would be. I
got back from Brussels today and saw the good news.. now its time for a
break and some celebration.
Thanks to you all.....
J P Singh
CCIE (R & S , Voice)
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