From: A.G. Ananth Sarma (GMail) (ananth.sarma@gmail.com)
Date: Tue Mar 04 2008 - 07:25:54 ARST
Hi Adel,
That is a great acheivement in a very short period.
Your strategy seems very practical.
Enjoy the moment.
Regards,
Ananth Sarma
On Tue, Mar 4, 2008 at 12:17 PM, Adel Karim <adelkarim@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> With the great blessings of God, I was able to pass the CCIE R&S lab exam
> from first attempt on 1st of March in Dubai.
>
> I have been preparing for this exam since 1st of Jan 2008 with the rate of
> almost 40hrs/week with a full rack.
>
> I can say the exam was really easy and straight forward... that was to the
> extent that the proctor kept asking me: "Why are you trying to make the
> questions more complicated?, it's just straight forward". By lunch time, I
> was almost done and spent the last 3 hours revising twice.
>
> The tools I used to prepare were as follows:
>
> 1- Attended the R&S bootcamp with "Tarun Pahuja" in Cairo last week of
> 2007.
> The bootcamp was great and Tarun did a great job during and after the
> class.
> I owe him a lot and thank him for his patience.
>
> 2- The great workbook Internetwork Expert's Vol 1 and 2. Did all 20 labs
> in
> volume 2 and that helped a LOT. Although I had products from other vendors
> but I decided to stick to one workbook and it seems I made a good choice.
>
> 3- 2 IE Mock labs and 1 NMC CheckiT lab. Although my results were not
> great
> (60-70%) in all 3 labs but they were very important to give me the feeling
> of the real thing. I can say the real reason for these results was the
> fact
> that there is no proctor to ask in case I had doubts about the tasks.
>
> 4- The Documentation CD.
>
> The exam environment and the proctor were great. It was a Saturday
> (weekend
> in Dubai) so the building was very quiet and that helped a lot to
> concentrate.
>
> To everyone who is working on this same mission now. Study hard and give
> it
> all your effort and it will pay off for sure. Do not think of it as a
> beast,
> have self confidence and you will go through it.
>
> Adel Karim
> CCIE# 20147 R&S
>
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