From: Fahad Khan (fahad.khan@gmail.com)
Date: Sun Nov 23 2008 - 13:17:08 ARST
First of all I congratulate you on your success and wish you all the best
ahead in your future. MashAllah great Job.
But your next goal should be to get rid of the the bottle neck (zero years
exp), and must not be the 2nd CCIE :).
Remember, Hardware interfacing, troubleshooting, implementation,
configuration and design modification while deployment, these are very very
important things in real life even more than certifications. There are many
things which you may not find in the book and they are beyond any bookish
knowledge. Things defined in the books are ideal. But you get the real taste
of technology when you deploy, integrate and troubleshoot a technology (any
box) with the zero or minimum downtime.
I think you should go for the diversified knowledge like integration of
juniper, 3Com, foundry etc technologies (Routing, switching, security,
wireless etc ) with Cisco, that will definitely let you feel more
confident.
Try getting a job at vendor or any Service provider's end for feeling the
real pain of technologies.
Remember, There is not any short cut of experience and exposure.
I wish you all the very best in life.
Best regards,
On Sun, Nov 23, 2008 at 7:51 PM, Adam Elghafri <ccie.adam@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi group..
> here is my success story as Ive promised u
>
> Ive graduated as an electrical engineer in summer 2007 yes.. I am a fresh
> graduate with no work experience..
> During university, I have completed CCNA and several 400 level courses in
> Telecom and networking after graduation, i thought this is not enough, so
> I
> opted for higher degree in Canada.. but unfortunately my immigration
> application has been rejected ... I wasn't satisfied with the bachelor
> degree I have, plus me loving networking technologies made me take the
> decision of studying for CCIE
>
> Of course.. I don't have work experience.. and relying only on self-study
> is
> tough at this stage. .. so I headed to india looking for institutes that
> teaches CCNP and CCIE that was exactly on July 2007 .. I studied there and
> in UAE as well as I kept coming and going back and forth the institutes
> there are crap .. if I do compare what level of knowledge I got from them
> and what I have right now .. its almost 1:15 relied on all books of CCNP
> and routing TCP/IP the 2 volumes which are truly THE books of CCIE so here
> is my booklist :
>
> - Routing TCP/IP vol I, II, for Jeff Doyle
> - CCVP QoS study guide for Odem
> - Internet Arch, for Sam Halabi
> - TCP/IP illustrated, for Stevens
> - MPLS VPN arch
> - SNRS book
> - DocCD
> - O'reailly cisco ios cookbook and cisco ios in a nutshell
> - CCNP books
>
> the time where I knew about this group and Internetwork Expert and Dynamips
> is almost on Jan/Feb2008 started with IE vol 1 and in the last 6 months
> (May Oct).. I was truly a caveman (see my facebook photo with the long
> hair and bread) studying almost 24/7 with few brakes and a month-end
> instead of a week-end for the ppl who are studying now.. my average
> productive hours per day was almost 7 hours
>
> During the 6 months I ve mentioned I did the following in order:
> -During June, I did IE vol 3 once
> -from the first of July, I started with lab 1 of IE vol 2.. the plan was to
> finish a lab per day .. or to finish on Jul 20th. !!! .. the first lab went
> smooth.. second one was a bit messy.. third took 2 days... and couple of
> days later made me realize I need much more time than expected.. I finished
> the first round of vol 2 on almost the the end of Aug or 2 months later
>
> Surprisingly enough.. the major factor that made me consume more time is
> "BOREDOM" . Yes boredom it will start sneaking inside you starting from
> lab 7 I still remember lab 18 which I finished in 10 days !!! its not
> because of its difficulty.. rather the fact that u don't want to continue
> setting on the chair configuring
> Ive wrote a post abt this on GS.. went to the cinema.. had fun.. but
> without
> hope.. it was the most dangerous enemy of me that I couldn't defeat more
> dangerous than my classical enemy "memory" as I have below average memory
> power . And speaking of difficulties in memorization.. I used to write
> notes I wrote and wrote and wrote almost everything I encountered in A4
> and
> filed all in one folder
> This helped me to go back to anything ive ever encountered before and more
> importantly, it helped me to understand more clearly !!... yes coz suppose
> u
> ve seen some QoS tech like FRTS.. then u will say: "ya ya I got it".. but
> in
> fact u didn't get the small key point there that won't show up until u drow
> it on the paper so taking notes for me was a big factor of my success..
> Then I repeated the labs once again.. this time wasn't faster as I expected
> coz of the my 2 enemies above mentioned.. plus the holy month of Ramadan
> (September) where we muslim fast
>
> I booked a seat on 21 of October I had lots of troubles in adjusting my
> biological clock which made me force myself to stay awake the whole 48
> hours
> before the lab night.. thanks to God I slept good 8 hours before the lab..
> When I went out of the lab, I thought I wont make it as I finished on time
> without a decent revision! jumped to my laptop and my email pressing
> refresh bottom almost every 10 seconds and got the "PASS" at 1:30
> am! .needless to say I made everyone around me wake up
>
> Thank you Brain & Brain & Petr from IE thank you Tony for from
> cconlinelabs.com .
> Hats off to Chris the developer of Dynamips/Dynagen
> Thank you GS
>
> Now I feel a bit hopeless in getting a decent job in dubai coz of two major
> factors:
>
> - the global financial crisis where most multination companies r having
> hiring freeze.
> - ZERO years of experience :D
>
> ive started sending my cv everywhere the whole last month and I didn't get
> a
> reply from any company till the writing of this email wish me a good luck!
>
> Adam
> CCIE#22416
>
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