From: Ramanpreet Singh (sikandar.raman@gmail.com)
Date: Fri Jan 16 2009 - 11:44:57 ARST
congratulations!!
On 1/16/09, Alexei Monastyrnyi <alexeim73@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> job well done!!!
>
> Peter Grewal wrote:
>
>> I passed on my second attempt !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
>>
>>
>> Its been a long journey, one that has taken a great deal of time away from
>> my family. I started my journey in earnest in 2006, passed the CCIE
>> written
>> in December of that year. In January 2007, I assembled my own rack and
>> started working on the lab on and off for the rest of the year. At the
>> beginning of 2008, I felt that I needed to get more focused and decided to
>> attend Narbiks bootcamp in Passadena. I can't say enough positive things
>> about his bootcamp, his humor and the caliber of the material he has
>> developed. My first attempt at the lab come in June 2008, after getting
>> through the lab I had that feeling that I didn't pass, which was confirmed
>> in the dreaded 3:00AM email. So why did I fail ? In part due to the fact
>> that I just was not ready, the material that Narbik had given me was
>> awesome, but I just didn't know the material as well as I thought, plus I
>> was fumbling with the document CD.
>>
>>
>> I took a slight break to enjoy the summer with my family, my wife and son
>> had already been greatly deprived of quality time with me, and I felt it
>> unfair to start hitting the books straight away. After a two month break,
>> I
>> added Internetworking experts 5.0 Vol 1 work book to my study material and
>> used it to hone in on the technologies and provide me with a slightly
>> different perspective on the material. Completed Narbiks advanced
>> technology
>> work books twice, made sure that I went through the document CD from top
>> to
>> bottom as I was studying. By November, I felt like I was finally ready to
>> take this thing head on, the first available date I could find for either
>> RTP or San Jose which was Jan 15, 2009. So what does one do when they have
>> a
>> couple of weeks prior to their exam, I took a cruise with my family !!!! I
>> don't know how big of a factor this was, but as an IT consultant I work a
>> pretty hectic schedule and trying to study can be a tough balance, I
>> didn't
>> touch a computer/laptop for a good 8 days, relaxed and spent time with my
>> family. When I got back, I felt as though my head and been cleared, and I
>> had a renewed fire in me to knock the exam out of the park. I spent the
>> final weeks, re-reviewing all of my study notes, reviewing the document
>> CD,
>> and labbing up areas that I considered to be my weak areas.
>>
>> I flew into RTP on Tuesday, and stayed at the Holiday Inn express (really
>> nice hotel, and they offer a complimentary shuttle to/from Cisco and the
>> airport. I took it easy on Wednesday, reviewed my notes and read through
>> the
>> varies posts on the upcoming changes on the lab, more on the upcoming
>> changes in a moment. On the day of the exam, I got up around 5:00AM, I
>> just
>> couldn't sleep, I wouldn't call it nerves, I felt like I was ready to pass
>> this time. As Anthony Sequieria from IE has often stated, I just had that
>> feeling of I was going to pass this today, at no point did I feel like I
>> was
>> not going to make it.
>>
>> I worked my way through the lab, verifying as I went, working a little bit
>> slower and more relaxed that I should have been, however by lunch time, I
>> had completed all the core requirements, as well as IPv6 and completed a
>> reboot of all the devices. After lunch, I worked my way through the
>> remaining sections and completed my verification, which took me until
>> 3:00PM. So what did I decided to do at 3:00PM start tweaking my IGP, bad
>> move as I had to undue all the tweaks, but I tested my network just to
>> make
>> sure everything was working. I walked out of the lab at 3:30PM, feeling
>> that
>> I had a really good chance of passing, then it hit me, did I save my
>> configs
>> on the routers that I decided to change last minute ? I was pretty sure I
>> had, but this late in the day I just couldn't remember. I spent the next
>> couple of hours wonder had I saved my configuration, prior to leaving the
>> lab, I had done it consistently through earlier parts of the. My words of
>> advice, don't try to make any changes to your network late in the day that
>> could break your network for a few points and "wr mem" after any change on
>> you make.
>>
>>
>> At 11:00PM I received the confirmation email, since I was fast asleep, my
>> wife checked when she woke up in the morning, and informed me of my pass
>> status. I would like to thank my wife who has stood by me in my constant
>> studying, and my son whom at 20 months old walks in to Dad's study and
>> doesn't understand why dad can't play with him. For any parent, this is
>> one
>> of the hardest part of pursuing this exam, the time spent studying really
>> is
>> time that you could be spending with your family. I would also like to
>> thank
>> Narbik, the InternetworkingExpert team for their material and mock labs,
>> as
>> well as the wonderful folks on this forum. I'm going to take some time
>> off,
>> before reviewing my next mountain to tackle......
>>
>>
>> One last thing concerning the upcoming change to the lab, according to
>> Howard and Robert yesterday at RTP, the questions will only take up to 15
>> minutes to answer, and should be nothing to worry about if you are
>> properly
>> prepared. I feel the pain of people that are under pressure studying and
>> have this thrown at them, but from what I've heard from the proctors, if
>> you've prepared properly for lab, then there is nothing to worry about.
>>
>>
>> Thank you.
>>
>>
>> Peter Grewal
>>
>> CCIE RS 23211
>>
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