From: Carl Yost Jr. (yostc@sunpenguin.net)
Date: Tue Mar 04 2008 - 13:47:16 ARST
Wow only 2 months of lab prep and passed on first attempt. I feel like
such a slacker. Grats!
ahmed badr wrote:
> Congrats Adel.....your words give me the confident I need. Thanks.
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> On 04/03/2008, Adel Karim <adelkarim@gmail.com> wrote:
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>> 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:
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>> 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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