From: Jason Morris (mcnever@gmail.com)
Date: Fri Jan 16 2009 - 13:54:16 ARST
Congrats Peter
go spend some time with your family!!
Jason Morris
On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 9:36 AM, Tony Schaffran (GS)
<groupstudy@cconlinelabs.com> wrote:
> Congratulations Peter!!!!
>
>
> Tony Schaffran
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> CCIE #11071
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: nobody@groupstudy.com [mailto:nobody@groupstudy.com] On Behalf Of
> Peter Grewal
> Sent: Friday, January 16, 2009 3:02 AM
> To: ccielab@groupstudy.com
> Subject: Well I went to RTP yesterday and..........
>
> 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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