From: oluwaseyi ojo (sameoj@gmail.com)
Date: Mon Nov 24 2008 - 09:34:51 ARST
Congrats !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
On 11/23/08, 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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