From: Josh Covarrubias (shmokin@gmail.com)
Date: Tue Mar 10 2009 - 15:00:13 ARST
That advice you give in your #1 is key!!! Many congrats on your
accomplishment. Way to hang in there and not give up.
Regards,
Josh
On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 8:45 AM, Anthony Sequeira <
asequeira@internetworkexpert.com> wrote:
> This is so awesome - congrats!
>
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> On Mar 10, 2009, at 11:38 AM, Grant Shackelford wrote:
>
> GS - Just wanted to send my information in for those compiling stats
>> and also toss in my $.02 worth of advice. I passed the R&S lab in RTP
>> last Thursday (3/5) on my third attempt.
>> I thought about what great advice I would pass on to everyone that is
>> still striving for their turn to send this email and I came to the
>> conclusion that sometimes the most simple advice is the best. So I
>> want to pass on some of the most simple and best advice I have gotten
>> that helped me along the way.
>>
>> 1) I learned from Scott Morris that sometimes you need to consider not
>> trying to complete an objective based on the possible impact to your
>> overall score. If you have a task to apply an ACL to an interface that
>> is involved in your routing protocols, look at how many points you
>> could lose if you break your routing protocols vs. how many points the
>> task is worth. In some cases, you may be better off to just give up
>> the points for the ACL task. As always, YMMV.
>>
>> 2) I learned from Narbik that you need to focus on the core topics. In
>> my final push to the lab, I focused on switching, IGP, and BGP topics.
>>
>> 3) I highly recommend the great class-on-demand on the new
>> documentation layout from Brian McGahan from Internetwork Expert.
>>
>> 4) If you can figure out a way to take the stress out of the lab
>> environment, it helps. For me, I went in Thursday with a primary goal
>> of taking the lab so my written would not expire (again). I did not
>> have high expectations of passing the lab and it was very liberating.
>> If you can figure out a way to remove some stress from your lab
>> attempt, it will have a positive impact on your lab attempt.
>>
>> I started on this path in 2002 and took my last lab attempt (prior to
>> Thursday) in June of 2003. To answer the question of how much of this
>> you retain, the answer is that you might be surprised. Once you dust
>> off those old brain cells, things start to come back pretty quickly.
>> Like many of you, I had to take a break from my studies to deal with
>> some family and career issues. Fortunately, I was able to return to my
>> studies a couple of years ago.
>>
>> Thanks to Paul for maintaining this forum, which is one of the best
>> resources for CCIE lab candidates available. For now, my journey has
>> ended. Best of luck to those of you still on the path.
>>
>> Grant Shackelford
>> CCIE 23746
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