From: A.G. Ananth Sarma (GMail) (ananth.sarma@gmail.com)
Date: Wed Apr 16 2008 - 08:42:59 ART
Hi CD,
Can you elaborate your lab strategy for the benefit of the would be CCIEs?
Ananth
On Sun, Apr 13, 2008 at 1:14 PM, C D <scdman@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi GS,
>
> After three attempts, its my turn to write this mail, that I have cleared
> my
> CCIE Lab in R&S last week at Brussels, Belgium. I use to go through all
> the
> mails giving status updates on pass/fail about the lab, and some of the
> technical message from this group, to keep my spirit up and running.
>
> After missing in the edge last time, I was pretty confident that I would
> be
> able to make out next time, and I was able to achieve that. I have spent a
> huge amount of money and unfortunately my employer is not in a position to
> reimburse any of the cost for the lab or training or materials.
>
> Also huge amount hurdles from my employer which I would like to mention,
> like rejecting my leave request(both for my second attempt in raleigh USA
> and third attempt in Brussels, Belgium) requesting to take the lab after 3
> months, second denial of issuance of a business letter for applying for my
> Belgium VISA....., are too mention few. I have finally managed to get the
> Belgium VISA, without new invite from my employer( used the invite issued
> to
> me long back). Second I was working in office till friday (18:00 hrs),
> left
> to brussels on saturday and took up the lab sunday, just to get the news
> in
> the sunday night that I have passed my lab.
>
> For privacy reasons, I am unable to reveal my CCIE number, which you all
> might be able to recognize why I am not able to reveal the number at the
> moment.
>
> After, all the suffering, hurdles I have to achieve my goal, I am
> wondering
> whether I should be donating my LAB to the new CCIE Lab aspirants. But the
> amount of personal money I have spent for clearing the lab, also suggest
> to
> sell the lab, atleast to recover the cost of the equipment. If anyone
> interested in purchasing my CCIE LAB, (I used it for my LAB build for NMC
> Topology), just unicast me.The lab devices are in Bangalore, India.
>
> Regards
> SCD
>
>
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