From: John Jones (acer0001@gmail.com)
Date: Mon Mar 24 2008 - 23:19:47 ART
That is hilarious... Lesson to learn - you never really know who you are
talking to. He could be an IE under the hood.
John
On Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 9:08 PM, The R <ranvea@gmail.com> wrote:
> A.G. Ananth Sarma (GMail) wrote:
> > Hi R,
> >
> > Congratulations.
> >
> > Can you elaborate your CCIE Lab strategy for all of our benefit?
> >
> > TIA,
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Ananth
> >
> > -----------------------------------------------
> > A.G. Ananthasubramania Sarma
> > Email:
> > ananth.sarma@gmail.com <mailto:ananth.sarma@gmail.com>
> >
> > 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)
>
> #20337
>
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