From: Moazzam Daimi (daimi.moazzam@gmail.com)
Date: Fri May 16 2008 - 12:23:03 ART
Well done mate.... your email is really inspiring.... will help me
keep motivated to achive CCIE.
Very well achieved... All the best for your further aspirations
You have fun now....
Moazzam
On 5/16/08, daniel <igevioya@gmail.com> wrote:
> Congrats Sir.
>
> Rgds
> dan
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: nobody@groupstudy.com [mailto:nobody@groupstudy.com] On Behalf Of
> Khawar Butt
> Sent: Friday, May 16, 2008 8:48 AM
> To: 'yemi soyibo'; ccielab@groupstudy.com
> Subject: RE: THE JOUNEY TO CCIE #20739
>
> Hi Yemi,
>
> Congratulations. Best of Luck in your future endeavors.
>
> Khawar Butt
> CCIE#12353 (R/S , Security , SP , Voice)
> http://www.khawarb.com
> http://www.netmetric-solutions.com
> E-mail : khawarb@khawarb.com
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: nobody@groupstudy.com [mailto:nobody@groupstudy.com] On Behalf Of yemi
> soyibo
> Sent: Thursday, May 15, 2008 1:36 AM
> To: ccielab@groupstudy.com
> Subject: THE JOUNEY TO CCIE #20739
>
> THE JOUNEY TO CCIE #20739
> Finally I became CCIE #20739 on the 8th of May 2008 in Dubai.
> I thank God Almighty for this achievement and I give him all the glory. If
> you
> don t yet know who JESUS CHRIST is ..man, you need to ASAP. Read John 3:16
> I thank my wife, Funke and my 3 boyz. They put up with so many late nights,
> lonely weekends, holidays. Thanks for understanding.
> I thank Paul Jaikaran and Francis Odo. When things in the office were
> getting
> crazy, they still gave me some space to lab scenarios and to study. Mr.
> Jaikaran, you are a true CTO in the real sense of the word. You are the real
> deal ..from another planet.
> At times, I felt like I was chasing a mirage, looking for the lost city of
> El
> Dorado but I kept pushing. I ve mostly been a silent member of GS and I must
> thank Paul Borghese for making this to happen.
> To Paul Borghese, This list is an awesome list. You can t fathom how many
> lives you have changed with this list. When you are 70 yrs and above, you
> will
> just begin to realize it. You are truly unique.
> I Thank all the five star generals in the field Narbik Kocharians, Brian
> Dennis, Scott Morris, Kawar Butt, Brian Mcgahan.., anyday I ll be under your
> command. I would also thank all the others that always contributed on the
> forum. Joseph brunner, Victor Cappuccio, Yemi Salau, Scott Vermillion ,
> Sadiq
> Yakasai Thanks a mill guys. If I didn t mention your name, pls forgive me.
> Please permit me ..this will be long. I want to use this to encourage
> somebody
> out there. Hold on to your dream. Circumstances, situation of life, setbacks
> will hit you hard. You must persevere as if your life depended on it and at
> the end of the day your dreams will be actualized. Circumstance s will want
> to
> take away your dream, hold on to it tight.
> I noticed something about CCIE s. There is this thing inside of them that
> says I shall not quit in the midst of any adversary, when things seem to go
> contrary to plan, they say they shall weather the storm and make it. Call it
> faith or whatever you want, it s there, believe me. Sometimes I call it the
> eye of the tiger..Rocky anyone
> Every morning when I got to the office, the first websites I went top were
> Internetwork expert, IP Expert, netmasterclass etc to see who and who passed
> and what the digits were now.
> Many posts gave me belief and encouraged me. One particular mail made up my
> mind for me. It was about a guy that posted here on GS and said he had done
> it
> 2-3 tmes , failed and he was giving up and he didn t want to do it anymore.
> Someone called him a loser. At times I wanted to give up but I didn t want
> to
> be a loser. I wanted history to record that I was one of the CCIE s that
> walked on the planet earth.
> Nothing is impossible for man to achieve because we were made in God s
> image.
> The tower of Babel would have been built even if it would have taken a
> billon
> years .So please remove failure from your mindset. In anything I do now, I
> label failure as a setback. The word failure has finality to it. Every
> setback
> that comes, comes to make you tougher. It comes to test you, to see what you
> are made of whether you are powepuff or made of stern stuff. There s a
> saying
> that say when the going gets tough, the tough get going. If you continue
> knocking, the door of success will eventually open. Remember Abraham
> Lincoln,
> Ted Turner and other man (Men of Honour, Mohammed Ali) that wouldn t give
> up.
> You know what history has to say about them.
> I did the lab 5 times before I passed. My advice is that don t waste your
> money as I did. I quote Narbik..don t go until you are ready. The 1st
> attempt
> I went for, I wasn t ready. But right now reflecting on the mistake, I still
> used it as part of the experience along the journey. After it, I knew and
> experienced firsthand the pressure cooker that was the lab.
> My question to future CCIE s is DO YOU HAVE WHAT IT TAKES? .in terms of
> time,
> studying, practicing lab scenarios, navigating the Cisco Doc CD etc. If the
> answer is yes, then the CCIE No is just by the corner.
> The CCIE Lab will test your knowledge. It will weed out the weak areas that
> you have and magnify it. You would be amazed when and how you will be found
> out. Nothing should surprise you in the lab. You need to have simulated it
> before or know about it.
> I started with the IE COD s. This was an invaluable tool. I didn t have much
> hands on. It was later after 3 attempts I started using Dynamips. I bought
> rack time on line but it wasn t the same. It constrained me to use it at
> their
> own time. I made notes from the COD s. A 4 hrs class might take me 3 days to
> go through because I was jotting down notes and even printed the capture
> screen of the configs and show outputs. Its as if I know the 2 Brians, I can
> still hear their voices now. Thumbs up to you. Their blogs are also cool.
> 1st Attempt, 5th Feb. 2007
> Went just for lunch. It was a humbling experience. After 4 hrs, I knew I
> wasn t going to make it. I stared at the monitor for about 15 mins and
> didn t
> know what to do. I asked myself, that do normal people actually pass this
> test? Anyway, I went through the rest of the lab and answered the questions
> just to get some experience.
> 2nd Attempt, 15th May 2007
> Everything that could go wrong went wrong. Taxi cab missed the turning and
> got
> there 30 min late. Before lunch I was doing ok, but after lunch the s..t hit
> the fan. I came out angry with myself, everything and everybody.
> 3rd Attempt, 29th Aug. 2007
> This was the real attempt that I felt I has a chance of passing. I got the
> result and wasn t angry. I sat back and it dawned on me that I was a better
> Engineer now. I could type quite fast, I did tasks in the office faster and
> more efficiently. I was concentrating so much on getting the CCIE that I
> just
> realized this after the 3rd attempt. Have you ever watched a Chinese film
> where the master tells the student to do repetitions of a particular task
> over
> and over again. The student does this for donkey weeks and so has his
> muscles
> built up so much that when he incorporates it into his fighting style, it
> becomes his specialty. That s how felt.
> 4th Attempt, 12th Jan. 2008
> Not much to say here. It was close.
> I met a double CCIE after the lab and he advised that I go for a bootcamp.
> He
> said frankly that after 3 attempts you might not know what you are doing;
> you
> need a bit of direction. Most times when we are doing things and not getting
> results, we need to listen to words of wisdom. I took the advice and went
> looking for bootcamp.
> Choosing one was a function of cost, venue and availability. I believe all
> the
> vendors know their onions and are in business because they are good. If all
> the indices and criteria to choose one were the same, I would have flipped a
> coin and chosen one.
> I chose Narbik s bootcamp in Dubai because his was the most value for money
> at
> that time. The venue was easy to get to from Nigeria (no visa issues), cost
> was $2500 (a steal), and his workbook was da bomb. I really enjoyed the
> classes. It was 60% practice labs, 40% whiteboard lecture and the rest 10%
> were jokes. Man, we laughed. Narbik is very funny. I remember the joke
> about
> the lady he said would come 2nd in a beauty pageant.
> This bootcamp built my confidence levels, allowed me days of serious
> labbing
> and tweaking scenarios. It really filled my gaps. Before I went for the
> bootcamp, I had fixed my date but couldn t tell anyone. My company paid for
> the first 2 attempts and they paid for the bootcamp. You can imagine how
> much
> debt I was in. I was being chased from left to right and center and imagine
> sending 3 kids to school.
> 5th Attempt, May 8th 2008
> Finished in 6 and half hrs, didn t take anything for granted. I double
> checked
> everything. For the first time had the time to do the tcl script. It helped
> cos I had a route I couldn t ping. Would not have seen it without th script.
> I
> left the lab and said to myself that I had passed. Six hrs later, I saw
> passed, CCIE 20739
> In summary
>
> Finance willing, go for a COD and Bootcamp. Don t waste money on an attempt
> without having at least one of these two.
> Lab up every scenario you don t understand. Practice..practice ...need I say
> it more?
> Cisco DOC CD. This should be your CCIE Bible
> Have a belief in yourself. Every CCIE out there has only one brain, you have
> one also. They have just used it more.
>
> Next 1 2 yrs of my life CCIE SP or Security, MBA, Business Venture? Will
> decide soon.
> Nice to be among the expert field ..even though still a baby
>
> YEMI SOYIBO
>
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-- Regards,Syed Moazzam Daimi Senior Network Engineer SwissBank
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