From: Fahad Khan (fahad.khan@gmail.com)
Date: Sun Nov 09 2008 - 03:50:42 ARST
Great! Man...Great Story....Congrats...Upcoming plans???
On 10/31/08, Reza Toghraee <reza@toghraee.com> wrote:
>
> Hello
>
> Ok now it's my turn to write the story. It's a long story; but I'll write
> my tips in the beginning to help easily finding the tricks.
> I did my lab on last Thursday, in Dubai.
>
> Tips:
> 1) if you are going to do mock-lab, print the diagrams in BLACK and WHITE.
> 2) never get sad, give-up, mad about your mock-lab result. Mock-lab is
> designed to help you understand the tips.
> 3) in the lab day, if others told you that its their 2nd, 3rd, 4th attempt
> and they laugh on you (hey baby 1st), don't get panic.
> 4) it's not important if you are not CCNA, if somebody told you that you
> are idiot with 0 knowledge, don't get angry, don't get sad. Of course some
> people are delivered from their mother's stomach while holding a CCNA.
> 5) ask your all families to pray for you and ask the GOD "God, please give
> him the questions which he already knows the answer"
> 6) ask the proctor about how to access the cisco DOC cd.
> 7) Read the : lab solution guides, cisco DOCs (3560, Security, Routing,
> QOS, Multicast)
> 8) IE Vol_1 Ver 5 is a GEM
> 9) its not important if you are sick, and you have a bad cold and flu. You
> can do it!
>
> CCIE is my first certification. I didn't have any idea about the vendors.
>
>
>
>
> LAB DAY:
>
> I was alone when I reach there, then 2 other people join me. It was their
> 4th and 3rd attempt. And when I told them its my 1st time, they laugh on
> me.
> (heh, baby, long way..)
> I after starting I shocked!. One of the MOST important things which helped
> me REALLY!!! Was the Brian Dennis LAB Strategy. In last week I attend the
> Last video of COD. It's the LAB Strategy plan. When I saw the video, I told
> myself, "no I don't like this was, I'd like to use my own way for
> management", but in the LAB, I used the Brian's method since I couldn't use
> my own plan for management of tasks. I suggest all to use this way in your
> test mock-labs.
> I finished about 80% of till the lunch time. And after lunch I finished the
> rest. I had exactly 2 hours for check and verify. I verified around 50% of
> the tasks, and I found some faults.
> When I came back home, I found my wrong answers one by one. I was very sad,
> and I didn't think about Passing.
> I received an email from Cisco mentioned Report is available.
> I logged in, with too much stress, and saw OH " UN-CERTIFIED" and there was
> an icon about score report. I died. But my wife saw that its "PASS" and
> when
> I clicked on the report, it was saying congratulations. I found my-self the
> first ever CCIE without NUMBER. What a feeling.
> I called cisco and explained the issue, after a while, she said that the
> number will come soon.
>
> This is my real story, I tried to write it for people who are in the
> beginning or mid of the way.
> I got 10KG extra weight during these 3 months, now I must do some
> exercises,
> (actually study is easier).
> I don't get any benefit from Internetwork Expert, I just wrote my own
> story,
> they also didn't gave me discounts (as their sales person told me that I'll
> have 10% discount on my mock-labs) for mock-labs.
> After doing the Lab, I face a question, How is the LAB day for Scott Morris
> or Petr or Brians? How the proctor deal with them? Do they go on red-carpet
> through their rack? What happens if they asked a question from proctor? I
> think its vice-versa the proctors will have too much stress when this kind
> of people go in the Lab.
>
> Groupstudy helped me a lot. I try to stay, and help the new people.
>
>
>
>
>
> Written Exam:
>
> I started my studies in late 2006. But how, I heared from some people that
> you must read the Routing TCP book.
> I started reading the Routing TCP/IP Vol1, I read carefully till EIGRP.
> Then
> I saw it's in very details.
> I didn't know what to read. I post a message in groupstudy, asking for
> help.
> Thanks to Brad Ellis who replied me and offered me the NLI written guide. I
> used the NLI and CCIE RS exam cert guide (Odom) for study for the written.
> I
> read cover-to-cover NLI and CCIE Routing-Switching exam cert guide. I was
> pretty good, because I could answer all the test questions in these books.
> I found a copy of testking in a P2P program. I started answering its
> questions, but I found that lots of my answers are wrong according to their
> solution guide. Then I realized that this must be written by someone who
> doesn't have knowledge. So I didn't continue reading it since I found it
> faulty, and made me upset because of bad scores. (after a while I
> understood
> that testking is a cheat), any way I passed the written on 18-JUN-2007
> exactly 1 day before changes in Blue-print.
>
>
>
>
> LAB Exam :
> After passing the written, I didn't have any idea about the lab, I was
> thinking just be a CCIE written, but I found that a CCNA, CCNP has much
> more
> value than a CCIE written, which you are NOT certified till you pass your
> lab.
> I recommended by a group-study member "Joseph Saad" to get the Internetwork
> Expert packages, and finally I got the IE end2end self paced program. I
> received it on SEP 2007.
> I started with Vol1. I bought a good laptop to run Dynamips (Duo 2.4 +4MB
> L2
> , 4GB, Kubuntu 64 bit). At that time I was working in a company in spit
> shift. We were working from 9-13 , 16-20 , everyday between 13 to 16 I used
> to goto sturbucks cofee, drinking a cap, doing the Vol1 on my dynamips.
> Also
> IE COD and listening to IE voice class with Mr. MacGan voice (also I have
> to
> say, IE's COD and voice classes are very good for non native English
> speaking people. You will enjoy). After around 3 months I started doing
> VOL2. Started with first LAB. I created a new diagram to make it compatible
> with Dynamips and NM-16ESW. But it took long time to find idle values.
> Anyway I face some problems (I remember it was with EIGRP) and pings. Also
> I
> bought some special FANS for the laptop. Anyway using dynamips for VOL2
> made
> my very slow, and lazy to do the VOL2.
> In March 2008, I bought a full CCIE equipments. And started playing with
> it.
> I had a job change so I couldn't study for around 2 months. And I
> re-schedule for 30-OCT-2008
>
>
> Hard Study From 10 AUG to 29 OCT :
>
> What I studied : IE COD , IE VOL2, IE VOL3 (I called it Baby Labs), QOS
> certification guide (odom book), Cisco Docs (printed version from DOC-CD
> including : 3560, Multicast, QOS, BGP, OSPF notes, Security, IP services,
> IPv6 (nat, dhcp, multicast), etc all more than 1000 pages I donno how
> many)
>
>
> I started with High pressure on 10th of AUGUEST. Watching AGAIN the COD (I
> got the DVD version, actually the online version sometimes kills )
> carefully
> with writing notes. Doing ALL the IE VOL2 Labs.
> I was studying around 8 - 10 hours per day, till end of the SEPTEMBER I
> finished the COD, 18 Labs of IE VOl2 and 1 IE Mock-lab with difficulty 7 (I
> got 54%).
> Another Luck which I had was RAMADAN. Our company decreased the working
> hours to 9-15, and I had enough time to study till 1st of OCTOBER.
>
> LAST Month:
>
> I got a leave from my job for 1 month. From 1st of OCTOBER, I did 1 lab
> from
> IE Vol3 every 2 or 3 days and I found my weakness areas which were on QOS
> and Multicast.
> I decided to do all the VOL2 labs Again but only Multicast, QOS, IP
> services, SYS management.
> I broadcast a message on group asking for advise for last months, and many
> people helped me. Special thanks to Narbik, he sent me his IPv6 guide, but
> actually I was good in IPv6 and I didn't have time to read it. He is very
> kind.
> And Mr "Anthony Sequeira" from IE, whom helped me too much in last month.
> Its great if you feel that someone is watching you, advise you, and
> mentally
> help you.
> He is a great man.
> I reviewed all the IE Vol2 labs, also doing the Baby Labs (Vol3). And
> Lab_it_up everything which I feel I'm not comfortable. THIS IS VERY
> IMPORTANT! If you fell you can do something, but you can not doing it on
> the
> LAB, you MUST LAB_IT_UP and do all possible plays with that technology. I
> spent a lot of time doing Switch QOS, and IOS features.
> Its very important to make your mind clicked. If you don't do DVMRP games,
> you will never learn it good. LAB_IT_UP to understand.
> I did 5 IE mock-labs and 1 NMC Checkit mock-lab. For all the IE labs I
> didn't get more than 80, either NMC Checkit mock-lab.
> In Last week I realized that I have a problem in redistribution, I attend
> again the COD redistribution and after some lab-it-ups I found the rules.
> I studied till 23:00 the day before exam.
>
>
>
> Last night I tried to attend the IE announcement, but my browser crashed,
> and I couldn't login again. Today I watched the video, and I heared my
> name.
> Thanks Anthony, Thanks Brians, Thanks all the IE people.
>
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>
> I'm the X in "InternetworkeXpert"
>
> Reza Toghraee
> CCIE 22518 RS
>
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