From: A.G. Ananth Sarma (GMail) (ananth.sarma@gmail.com)
Date: Tue Jun 10 2008 - 09:10:05 ART
Hi Mike,
Good Job. Your hard work and perseverance paid off.
My Heartiest Congratulations.
Few more months to go.
Regards,
Ananth
On Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 2:56 PM, Mike Haddad <mike.haddad@hotmail.com>
wrote:
> Hello everybody,
>
> I am proud to announce that I have passed my CCIE R&S in Brussels . My
> journey was long enough due to the fact that I had to fly from Nort America
> (Vancouver, Canada) to Dubai twice and Europ twice to get my CCIE. Jet lag
> was
> one of the reasons I failed the exam last month. This time I flew one day
> ahead of my exam to overcome the jet lag.
>
> The material I used was all IE Expert. The last week before the exam I
> did
> my own bootcamp. I used to start reviewing technologies from 10:00 am till
> 2:00pm. Then rest for an hour and do practice exam from 3:00 till 11:00pm.
> I
> was doing lots of silly mistakes which gave me a good practice. By the end
> of
> the week I was so tired and felt that I really understood the technologies
> and
> the most important is how to verify and troubleshoot them.
>
> This attempt was the hardest amonth my last three attempts. My first scan
> of
> the exam indicated a failure but as I passed through the exam I was able to
> clear most of the things. My target was to finish in six hours so I have 2
> hours to re-check all my configs. I skipped two non-core questions and was
> able to get end to end reachability + IPV6 configuration done by lunch
> time.
> After lunch I was able to finish the other sections of the exams including
> BGP.
>
> After that I went through all the skipped questions and then reviewed
> EVERY
> single configuration. I was able to spot three mistakes and corrected one
> miss-configured question. I left the exam and I knew that I had missed 5
> points for sure. After the exam I reviewed everthing in mind to see if I
> missed anything else but couldn't think of anything I missed.
>
> I really thank everybody in this group for the help they provided.
>
> Wish all the preparing for the CCIE best of luck and now a 2 months rest
> before I start looking in CCIE Voice,
>
> Regards,
>
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