From: The R (ranvea@gmail.com)
Date: Mon Mar 24 2008 - 23:08:03 ART
A.G. Ananth Sarma (GMail) wrote:
> Hi R,
>
> Congratulations.
>
> Can you elaborate your CCIE Lab strategy for all of our benefit?
>
> TIA,
>
> Regards,
>
> Ananth
>
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> A.G. Ananthasubramania Sarma
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> ananth.sarma@gmail.com <mailto:ananth.sarma@gmail.com>
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> On Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 5:37 AM, The R <ranvea@gmail.com
> <mailto:ranvea@gmail.com>> wrote:
>
> To All!
>
> I been a "silent" member of groupstudy for quite a while now. I just
> wanted to say that after all of the hard work that I passed the lab at
> RTP on 3/21/08. Many thanks to everyone on this site for all of great
> questions and support!
>
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Well, now that I have read over my original email I realize that I left
out a few words...lol. I guess the excitement just got to me. As far as
my strategy went, I used Internetworkexpert's Core Lab workbook, a mock
lab and the CCIE Assessor Lab. The core labs were great, if you build up
your speed on the core sections(Routing and Switching) the rest of the
lab goes very smoothly, at least in my opinion. The biggest piece of
advice that I can give is know the technology! It's great if you can
configure anything that is asked of you if it is spelled out and
straightforward, but what if it is not? For example, if they said
configure this ospf area xxx as a "stub" its not a problem right? But
what if they said configure this ospf area as a type that does not
allow type 3,4, or 5 lsa's but you need to advertise the loopbacks
without using any interface level or network commands. What would you do
then? That is not a real question and I just made that up off the top of
my head so I don't believe its an NDA violation ;o) RTP was great and
the proctors were excellent! Big Shout to Howard! He keeps you at ease
and will answer all of your questions as best he can. The only complaint
that I had was that I couldn't change the resolution of my screen and
since I use dynamips on linux I was used to having a bunch of windows on
the screen for each device but I couldn't do that at the actual exam.
Thank goodness I practiced the "Brians's" "Brian's" "Brians'" or however
you would say that plural method of using a single SecureCRT session
and reverse telnetting to each device. Thanks guys!
Well my story is a little unusual but here it goes. It started back in
2003 or 2004, can't remember which but I work in the facilities field
(still do as a matter of fact) but I had always wondered what those guys
do who come in with their laptops for an hour or two after we spent 12
weeks building the space out, bringing in all the computers, running all
the cable, making all the terminations, bringing in all those weird
black boxes with the blinking lights, hauling around ups units because
those guys can't pick them up. So I asked a guy one day and he said he
was a CCNA like he was some sort of god or something so that night I
went to the store and brought that great book by Wendell Odom. Now for a
guy that knew nothing about networking, i'm not going to lie to you, it
was like reading stereo instructions without the stereo. I went on ebay
brought a couple of 2500 series routers, a few switches and after a
month or two got my CCNA and then a few more months later my CCNP. So
here I am still doing the same thing at work, but now I understood what
those guys were saying to each other and realize that didn't know
sh*t..lol. When they told me things like "Yeah, we are going to be all
day because we have to make these things called Vlans.." All day? You
could just imagine my disdain for them..lol. At first I did it to prove
a point but then I got hooked on it. Its a great feeling when
adjacencies come up or you see those exclamation points running across
your screen. I must be a weirdo or something because NOBODY on this site
thinks that way right? ;o) So here I am, a CCIE who works in
facilities..lol. You gotta love it right? I think eventually I might try
and actually get into the field one of these days but I talked to one IT
manager and he said that I needed more practice configuring switches
because they use a lot of vlans. I just smiled and said okay..lol.
Again, you gotta love it! I have been waiting 4 years to write this
email so if you think its too wordy...i have 2 more you! (Use your
imagination)
P.S. What is the big deal about vlans? Are they really that serious in
the IT world? ;o)
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