From: Matt Brooks at IPexpert (mbrooks@ipexpert.com)
Date: Wed Feb 13 2008 - 16:00:04 ARST
JP,
First, I would like to congratulate you on your success. Even in light of
your review of IPexpert, I believe that you gained some benefit from our
products, courses and support. For that, I am pleased to have been a part of
your success.
It is good to see that Brad and his team were able to help you as well. I am
pleased to say that we have developed a great relationship with the
CCbootcamp staff. Brad runs a fine operation and is generous with his time
and desire to help CCIE candidates.
I am, however, disappointed that your review did not acknowledge the many
phone calls and emails that our team engaged with you, which certainly went
well outside our "normal" level of support. I suppose it is true in business
that "you can't please all the people all the time," but we will continue
trying to assist other CCIE Voice candidates...
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On February 8th 2008 I passed my CCIE Voice Lab in RTP. I took the IPexpert
10 day boot camp in Richardson TX, and I can't express enough how much this
helped me to pass. I have been working with IPT for over 6 years and have
done Call Manager installs all the way back to the version 3.0, but still
picked up a wealth of new knowledge at this boot camp that if I hadn't had I
would not have passed.
Vik's help was amazing and I couldn't come up with any questions to stump
him. If I had a question on any of the technology he always had an answer
for me. IPexpert's Voice boot camp and practice materials are second to
none. Had I not gone to the boot camp I don't feel like I would have passed
the lab. I would also like to say the proctor lab equipment is great, and I
used it exclusively to study for the lab at home since I could not afford to
buy my own lab.
Sincerely,
Allen Hartman
CCIE #11381 (Voice, R&S)
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I passed on January 29, 2008. One of my friend recommended IPexpert's CCIE
Bootcamp as a good way to prepare for the lab. The bootcamp was really
helpful in terms of measuring your own readiness to take the test. I would
definitely recommend to sign-up for this bootcamp BEFORE you even sign up
for the real lab attempt. You may find out that you are not ready or there
are many other/better strategies you could use to give you a better chance
at passing the lab.
Mark Snow was very helpful/knowledgeable and provided useful insights about
things to look out for during the test. I also ordered the workbook from
IPexpert which I used to do time trials for the real test.
I guess I am really proud that I was able to pass this test more than 10
years after I passed my first R&S CCIE. Big thumbs up for IPexpert!
Andras Arato
CCIE #3297 (Voice, R&S)
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I would like to express my gratitude for the training that I received from
IPexpert in preparing for my Voice CCIE lab. I used the Voice Proctor Guide
to gain a solid foundation of the possible testable topics in the Voice CCIE
lab, and then partook of the 5 day lab experience boot camp taught by Vik
Malhi roughly one month before I sat for the exam. I was thoroughly
impressed with Vik's knowledge, and a few times during the course my lab
partner and I would bet on how quickly Vik would know the answers to our
questions before we finished the questioning sentence.
In addition, during the month after my bootcamp and before my lab practical,
I posed many questions to the online forum that Mark Snow would respond too.
Mark's explanations were clear and concise and he went above and beyond in
many situations to make sure I understood the material. I am happy to report
that on January 22nd of 2008, I passed the Voice lab and feel strongly that
IPexpert was a contributing factor.
However, I would also like to make the point that IPexpert does not train
people to pass the CCIE Lab exam. To the contrary, IPexpert's training
regiment ensures that each individual actually understands the technology
and truly becomes a better engineer.
In much appreciation,
Mike Schultz
CCIE (R&S, Voice) #7935
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IPexpert was recommended to me by a local Cisco SE, who recently took a boot
camp, and by a coworker who used the lab guide to pass his Voice lab last
year. I worked through several of the exercises in the workbook before
taking the boot camp.
The boot camp really helped me understand several critical areas much better
and helped me develop a strategy for the lab. After the boot camp I worked
through all of the labs in the workbook and the new e-books using the
Proctor Labs online racks. Working through all of the labs helped me learn
even more and increased my speed.
After completing the workbook and the e-books I felt ready for the lab and
was not nervous on test day. Because of all the hard work and preparation I
was able to pass the Voice lab on my first attempt. This was not easy and
required many hours of study. You cannot just go to a boot camp and expect
to pass, but with hard work and IPexpert products you can pass the lab.
The most important part of the whole experience of studying for and passing
the voice lab was that I greatly expanded my voice knowledge, which will
help me provide better service to my customers.
Hal White, CCIE (R&S, Voice) #12507
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Since my first CCIE Routing & Switching achieved in 2003, I have been used
IPexpert workbook. I practiced the complete whole book including the
break-down practice and one-day mock labs. It helped me a lot to pass the
R&S lab in 2 attempts. The workbook covered much wider scope than the real
lab, and it was based on the 9-routers case scenarios (the real lab has only
6 routers). Which helped me a lot to keep the confidence till the end to
complete the R&S CCIE lab within 4 hours. Yes, 4 hours only. So I could have
another 4 hours to fully test the lab one by one.
Before I started my CCIE Voice study, I researched on which workbook in the
market is the best that could fit me to practice the hands-on experience,
since I didn't have much hands-on, regardless I was a CCVP. I am so far very
happy with the decision to choose the IPExpert workbook. It covered a lot of
major topics for the section practice on CallManager, Unity, IPCC, Fax, GW,
GK and so forth. It took me 3 attempts to pass Voice CCIE in exact one year.
The workbook, again, helped me prepared more stuff than the real lab asked
for. So I could feel confidence everytime sit inside the real lab. The first
two attempts were not really bad, and I felt I was closer and closer to the
final success. And eventually I nailed it down on the 3rd attempt. It was
again, in the first 4.5 hours I completed the whole lab, and spent the rest
of time for testing and troubleshooting.
IPExpert had the first-class of CCIE Voice rack rental. I tried a couple
sessions before the final exam during the Christmas and New Year holiday
season. Their after-hour support was phenomenal. It was instant and
efficient. I was very impressive with the effort of the support team, since
they were just like standing beside you and reply to you through the email
and fix the issue very quickly. Also, IPexpert has their own mailing list,
in addition to their online CCIE forum, that I could post my questions and
get the answer instantly from both instructors and other CCIE candidates
around the world.
I would certainly recommend IPexpert products to those future CCIEs. Welcome
to the club.
Thank you again IPexpert.
Weihui Ted Meng, CCIE #12621
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http://www.ipexpert.com/index.cfm/Testimonials
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Matt Brooks
Vice President - IPexpert, Inc.
Telephone: +1.810.326.1444 x101
Mailto: mbrooks@ipexpert.com
> Subject: Finally Pass Voice Lab on first attempt
> > Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2008 12:17:33 +0000
> > From: jatinder.p.singh@bt.com
> > To: ccielab@groupstudy.com
> >
> > 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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