From: Gary Duncanson (gary.duncanson@googlemail.com)
Date: Sat Mar 08 2008 - 07:21:05 ARST
This certainly demonstrates what can be achived during a dedicated period of
study although your mileage will vary depending on your background.
Well done Adel
----- Original Message -----
From: "CCNP.CCIE9" <ccnp.ccie9@gmail.com>
To: "Adel Karim" <adelkarim@gmail.com>
Cc: <ccielab@groupstudy.com>
Sent: Thursday, March 06, 2008 2:31 PM
Subject: Re: Passed R&S 20147
> Great achievement Adel you break the record of 3 months the fastest I have
> ever seen.
>
> Alf mabrook ya basha :)) now you can Enjoy walking a long the Nile :)
>
> then you can start the new track SP or SEC ?
>
>
> On 3/4/08, 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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