From: Huan Pham (pnhuan@yahoo.com)
Date: Fri Dec 12 2008 - 03:23:58 ARST
Hi GS,
Yeah, I did it at my second attempt this week. I would like to thank all guys
and gals in this group study mailing list especially those regular posters and
to the owner Paul. Since I did not have a study partners since I started my
jurney 1 years ago, you guys became my virtual study peers. Now I do not see
much different between virtualized world and the real world, as I has met a
couple of real friend from GS in person. Another intersting story is that I
did meet Jonny English in the lab. He seated next to me. We did not even know
that, until I saw his STORY email and confirmed he was the guy on my left in
the lab!!!!
My brief story:
I started touching Cisco router in 2001 when I studied myself for CCNA and
CCNP, as well as tutoring CCNA students at my university where I did my PhD. I
got in love with Cisco IOS since then. But only in 2004 I decided to move away
from the acadamic job to go back to industry, and found my first job with
AT&T, where I could really work with Cisco gears on a day to day
basis. And only last year I became serious about pursuing CCIE.
I built my home rack, as well as Dynamips on my Laptop. I use Dynamips to
quickly try some small features out, because it took Dynamips few second to be
ready instead of few minutes on a real rack. In addition, Dynamips is as quiet
as a fish, and not as noisy as my full rack. Also, it seems Dynamips is built
on a very energy friendly material, which does not consume as much electricity
as my home lab ;-))
I bought all 3 workbook volumes from IE, and attended Narbik bootcamp in
Sydney in May just one week before my first attempt. I was kind of rush to get
it done, and suffered my first casualty. I then decided to buy IE Video CoD,
which was truely a right decision. I can watch it anytime, and acctually I did
it many time on my way to work and back home. It helps me to understand in
depth technologies.
However, there's a setback after my first attempt. Due to family commitement,
I had to slow my study down, because I did not want my jurney affected too
much normal daily routine of my wife and kids. I only got back on track very
intensively for the last two months, after I sent my wife and 2 little kids
overseas for holiday. For the last two months I practice 3-4 hours a day,
during a week day, as well as full 2 days during weekend. Virtually no social
life!
I mainly practised IE WB1, as well as WB3, as I cannot seat for 5-8 hours
doing a full lab. In my oppinion, a full lab is just a mixture of everything
in Vol1 and Vol3, so I though that I do not need to spend much time on that.
In stead, I tried a few mocklabs from IE, so that I can practise time
managment, as well as get independent feedback from another person.
For each task I practised, I documented the following things:
- Configuration
- Verification
- Doc CD Navigation
- Technology review
It is a slow process, but it is a wise one, in my opinion. You need to master
the Doc CD as it is the only friend in the lab. In the real lab, you may
forget a very simple command, but if you are familiar with the DOC CD you
should be able to find it, based on some keywords. For the second attempt, I
became much more familiar with the Doc CD than I was for the first time. I
believe, that is a big ingredient to success.
I also practised aliases, TCL scripts, and Ping Macro (for switches) to gain
speed, as well as practised openning 10x CRT sessions (without tab), to get
familiar with the real enviroment. It was very annoying at first but I got
familar navigating those ten windows by the time I got to the lab for the
second time.
I think that's it for my R&S story. I am trying to get back to my normal hours
(somehow I started waking up at 3AM-5AM since the day I took the lab), and try
some rest, before heading for the voice track. I am sure, I will be needing
you guys in my next jurney.
Thanks again to all of you for your help!
Huan Pham
--- On Fri, 12/12/08, Scott M Vermillion <scott_ccie_list@it-ag.com> wrote:
From: Scott M Vermillion <scott_ccie_list@it-ag.com>
Subject: Congrats To Huan
To: huan@huanlan.com, "'Cisco certification'" <ccielab@groupstudy.com>
Date: Friday, December 12, 2008, 2:27 PM
>BTW, for my very recent attempt, I did not know how many points I lost, but
I
>did not lose for more than 20 points in total for sure.
>Huan
I have to admit that I thought/assumed Huan was certified CCIE quite some
time ago. Just realized in looking at a vendor website that when Huan
referenced his "very recent attempt" in a post from a few days ago,
he meant
like 24 hours or so beforehand!
Huan, congrats sir! You're a great contributor to the list.
Cheers,
Scott
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