From: Dale Kling (dalek77@gmail.com)
Date: Mon Jun 30 2008 - 18:03:12 ART
You're not lying,
Here's the start of the Honey-do-list I received by my wife:
- Fix hole in wall
- Fix crooked door
- fix alum. wrapping on flashing around garage that blew off during storm
- Replace warped deck boards, sand deck and restain (800 sq foot deck,it's
going to suck badly)
- pressure wash house, fence, driveway, seal fence and driveway
- put new seal around exterior facing doors
- mulch about 3000 sq feet of flower gardens that have overgrown with weeds
as well now too
- install new zone in sprinkler system
- buy new 1080p tv and find time to enjoy it.
- study for SP
ugh,
I think I was better off studying......
On Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 4:28 PM, keith tokash <ktokash@hotmail.com> wrote:
> Awesome. Sometimes while studying it sounded easy when people got their
> number in a few months (which makes you wonder why it's not easy for
> you...).
> You did a good job conveying that you did in fact bleed for the digits.
> Now
> comes the fun part, where you start getting bashed in the head by all of
> the
> things you put off to study. :)
>
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> > Date: Mon, 30 Jun 2008 06:52:53 -0400
> > From: dalek77@gmail.com
> > To: ccielab@groupstudy.com
> > Subject: Damn, I finished the lab in 4 hours and had 4 hours to verify
> and
> I still didn't...........
> >
> > get served that coffee Brian Dennis was talking about. At least I got my
> > number on my first attempt though, 21330 baby!
> > BTW, never ever ever take your lab on Friday, the wait was worse then the
> > night before christmas as a kid! I didn't get my results until I woke up
> > this morning and have been on edge with people all weekend.
> >
> > Some people already know me from class and know my story. I began
> studying
> > because of all the paper CCNPs out there, especially my work. Now I have
> > nothing against CCNPs or any paper certs if you did it the right way, but
> > what pissed me off is that our employer thought this other guy was as
> > qualified as me because he got his CCNP and this guy announced himself as
> a
> > Senior Engineer. Well this schmuck took two days to get an SVI on a Cat
> 3750
> > up and just started networking about a year ago. While I worked hard for
> > mine and have recertified it twice over the past 7 years now, he got his
> in
> > weeks with you know what...... Pretty blatant about it as well as they
> > passed them around work talking about how they can get CCNP in just a few
> > weeks. These guys blow and I wish Cisco would do something about their
> > testing system.
> >
> > In any case, I got mad, I mean really mad that nobody could see through
> the
> > charade of these fake qualified network engineers. February of this year
> I
> > had enough and I knew there was only one thing to do. Get something that
> > they couldn't get or at least they would have to work real hard to get
> and
> > based on their work ethic, I doubt they would ever get it, the CCIE. I
> > worked my @$$ off since I got the materials end of February, and by the
> > grace of GOD and my lovely wife I was able to get my number in RTP on
> June
> > 27th. I pretty much shut my family off for the last 4 months, while my
> wife
> > took care of everything, the kids, the house, the dogs...... To give
> > everyone an idea of the hours I put in.... I worked 40 hours a week, I
> > studied everyday after work, from 6 pm to 2 am labbing and 12-15 hours
> each
> > day on the weekends. I took one day off and that was Mothers day and
> then
> I
> > attended InternetworkExperts 12 day bootcamp. I actually finished their
> > bootcamp material by the 3rd day of the bootcamp and Brian Dennis and
> > company was nice enough to let me mock lab the rest of the days I was
> > there. The InternetworkExpert bootcamp was nice to get away for 12 days
> > and lab for about 12-15 hours a day. I went outside once the entire
> time
> I
> > was there and that was for a 5 min walk to look at the pool and I didn't
> > turn on my tv once. I probably squeezed in about 3 weeks of lab time in
> 2
> > weeks of time. In essence, I was driven to get the CCIE from start to
> > finish in about 4 months. Granted I have about 8 years Cisco experience,
> > but it hasn't been hands on everyday the past 3-4 years because I work in
> a
> > lab environment now and no longer do operational support, thank god for
> that
> > too.
> >
> > It was a hard road, and there was many times I kept telling myself this
> is
> > too hard and will I never get there. However, I kept telling myself as
> long
> > as I keep studying and as long as I keep labbing I will always learn
> > something and will get closer. You might think I'm crazy, but I had a
> goal
> > and my wife said go for it. As I've said in previous posts, my
> motivattion
> > was not money, but to gain the knowledge these other guys didn't have and
> to
> > achieve CCIE status, something most of these paper certifiers won't ever
> > get. I have to say that I must thank these guys at work for the
> > motivation, and I will today when I go in to work in 2 hours after I get
> my
> > Cisco polos embroidered with the CCIE logo and install an LED behind it.
> :P
> > Seriously though, they gave me that spark that I was missing for years
> and
> > passing this lab attempt has ignited it even more. Now if you've managed
> to
> > endure the past few paragraphs of blah, all you first time CCIE
> candidates
> > enjoy my recommendations, which you've all heard time and time again I'm
> > sure.
> >
> > Study the Core, lab the Core until your fingers bleed. Get your Core
> down
> > to at least 3 hours or less. InternetwokExpert WB3 labs are awesome for
> > this, I got those down to 2 hours or less, some of the hard ones took 2
> 1/2
> > hours. Speed and time management was huge for me. I probably put in
> about
> > 500 hours of harcore lab time the last 4 months. I initially started
> > InternetworkExperts WB2 doing labs in like 10 hours, learning and
> > understanding the theory behind things. They were tough at first, but I
> > constantly would go back and reread the DOCCD and reference all my books,
> I
> > have ton of books. I watched their technologies COD 2 1/2 times in it's
> > entirety. It took a lot of coffee and doing it hands on with them to
> stay
> > awake. Brian Dennis's jokes couldn't even keep me up anymore after the
> > first go around. ;) After a few months I started completing their labs
> in
> > entirety in about 4 hours. Once this happened, I would do them and then
> > look up everything in the DOCCD, no matter if I knew it or not. This was
> my
> > DOCCD familiarization stage. I actually picked that up from Scott Morris
> > from somewhere I believe. Here it comes, you've heard it before, and
> you're
> > going to hear it again....
> >
> > KNOW YOUR DOCCD.. I guarantee you will get something in the lab that you
> > haven't seen before. This is where speed on the CORE was essential for
> me.
> > By lunch I had completed the lab once over , ran my TCL script, and was
> > feeling a little uneasy still, but I had the meat done. I'm a paranoid
> guy,
> > you can ask others. The only thing left was verification and digging in
> the
> > DOCCD for those few things I didn't know. I verified twice and each time
> I
> > found one small mistake that would have cost me 2 or 3 points each. Oh
> and
> > by the way, I still don't know the answer to one of them weird questions,
> > even now that I'm home and I have google, so here it comes, here it comes
> > again, KNOW YOUR DOCCD. My last suggestion is make sure you know theory
> > very well in the CORE IGP, well everything you learn really, but
> especially
> > your CORE. you've heard time and time again Switching, FR, and IGP
> probably
> > will be half your points. If you understand the mechanics and how things
> > work, no matter what scenario you get you can work through it. If you
> > memorize the vendor WBs, it won't help in the real lab.
> >
> > So I guess I should recognize people and materials that have helped me.
> > First off, my wife and GOD. If I don't mention her first, she might kill
> me
> > and probably the same about GOD... O_o Next, InternetworkExperts ver 4
> WBs
> > and their Technology COD. I have the Brians' voices engrained into my
> > head. Brian Dennis, Josh Finke and crew from InternetworkExpert were
> nice
> > enough to hook me up in the last hours. Also, IPExperts audio CD with
> Scott
> > Morris. I bought their WB package, but I only used the audio portion. I
> > thought it was very good and I probably listened to it about 5 times in
> it's
> > entirety driving to and from work everyday. It was just an extra tool to
> > feed my brain the knowledge it needed.
> >
> > I already have the materials from InternetworkExpert for the SP track
> and
> > will hit that at work starting this morning since this is what I do at
> work
> > everyday and my boss will let me study while I lab it up on our 7604s. :)
> > MMM Knowledge, I think these guys at work turned me into an animal.
> Watch
> > your back Petr, I'm coming for your CCIEs and I'll probably pass up Brian
> > Mcgahan in 6 months because he's a slacker. j/k man. ;)
> >
> > Good luck to all other CCIE candidates and I hope this email helps.
> >
> > regards,
> >
> > Dale
> >
> > P.S. Don't unicast me for any NDA crap either, I'll turn your ass into
> > Cisco.
> >
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