From: oluwaseyi ojo (sameoj@gmail.com)
Date: Tue Mar 04 2008 - 07:34:14 ARST
Congrats Adel,
your story is an inspiration and very
practical,cheers buddie,ENJOY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
On 3/4/08, A.G. Ananth Sarma (GMail) <ananth.sarma@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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