From: Adel Karim (adelkarim@gmail.com)
Date: Thu Mar 06 2008 - 08:49:13 ARST
Hi Farhan,
Don't say that, I think a period of 3.5 months is good too.
May be what helped me a lot is that I have been a CCSI for the last 7 years.
Thanks for your kind words...
Adel
On Thu, Mar 6, 2008 at 11:51 AM, Farhan Anwar <farhan.anwar@gmail.com>
wrote:
> Hi Adel, Congratulations on achieving your CCIE in such a short period
> of 2 months, you are ultra smart man. Now i consider myself total dumb
> because it took me more than 3.5 months to understand the material
> presented in the IE Workbook Labs.
>
> Congratulations again dude, nice work.
>
> On Wed, Mar 5, 2008 at 6:09 AM, Ramy Sisy <ramysisy@ipknowledgenet.com>
> wrote:
> > I have to share in this congratulations party :)
> > Great job Adel. I believe your next step should be SP as I know you
> will be
> > able to do it.
> >
> >
> >
> > --------------------------------------------------------
> > Thanks,
> > Ramy Sisy
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> > Technical Instructor
> > http://www.linkedin.com/in/ramysisy
> >
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> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: nobody@groupstudy.com [mailto:nobody@groupstudy.com] On Behalf Of
> Adel
> > Karim
> > Sent: Tuesday, March 04, 2008 1:17 AM
> > To: ccielab@groupstudy.com
> > Subject: Passed R&S 20147
> >
> >
> >
> > 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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> --
> Farhan Anwar
> www.farhananwar.com
>
-- Regards Adel Karim Mansour CCIE# 20147 R&S
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