From: Adam Elghafri (ccie.adam@gmail.com)
Date: Mon Nov 24 2008 - 20:05:41 ARST
thanks Fahed.... but i am suffering from lack of jobs openning nowadays..
now for vendors and multinationlan companies.. forget about it.. most of
them, if not all, r having hire freeze..
i agree with every word you said.. i need now a hardcore exposure to
heterogeneous network with multi-vendor equipments and diverse traffic types
in order to get the feel of it...
i woudnt mind joinning this kind of job anywhere in the world!..
On 11/23/08, Fahad Khan <fahad.khan@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 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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