From: oluwaseyi ojo (sameoj@gmail.com)
Date: Fri Dec 12 2008 - 11:44:06 ARST
Congrats Man!!!!!!!!!!!!
On 12/12/08, Huan Pham <pnhuan@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>
> 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
>
>
> Blogs and organic groups at http://www.ccie.net
>
> _______________________________________________________________________
> Subscription information may be found at:
> http://www.groupstudy.com/list/CCIELab.html
Blogs and organic groups at http://www.ccie.net
This archive was generated by hypermail 2.1.4 : Thu Jan 01 2009 - 12:53:08 ARST