Re: The story of number #24235

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On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 4:14 PM, Anthony Sequeira <
asequeira_at_internetworkexpert.com> wrote:

> This is awesome - enjoy!
>
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>
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> On Apr 27, 2009, at 11:56 PM, George Roman wrote:
>
> I thought it will never happen....
>>
>> I started my journey in 2007 when i took my CCNP. For some reason i was
>> caught in this frustration thing that CCNP was not enough because i have
>> seen a lot of guys passing this exam and they did not have a clue.
>>
>> So i took the written in June 2007 with a very decent score. I thought to
>> myself.... how hard can the lab be?? What can they make me do that i do
>> not
>> know already??
>>
>> In June, the company where i was working back then sent me to a CCIE
>> Bootcamp for two weeks in Austria at FastLane. After we started there i
>> realised that i am not even close because most of the lab requirements
>> have
>> nothing to do with the best practice. I started to feel unprepaired and to
>> regre that i attended the bootcamp that early but on the other hand i was
>> happy that this bootcamp make me realise what i should focus on and that
>> i
>> can practice for 2 weeks full time.
>> I started to work harder on the lab and i decided to take a shoot
>>
>> I did my first attempt in Dec 2007 and after the lab i had a feeling that
>> it
>> was not so bad. My score was about 70% and i have scored most of the
>> tasks.
>> Ofcourse after the lab itself i thought i would have scored more and i
>> started to wander if i do not missinterpret the tasks. By far i can tell
>> you
>> that this "interpretation" fear is the most crap feeling that a candidate
>> can ever have (you do not know what you did wrong in the lab).
>> The strategy that i used back then was to read the entire lab and then
>> drow
>> a diagram. It seem that this did not worked good for me...After 1 hour of
>> lab i realised that i did not even started. By reading the whole lab did
>> not
>> helped me because it didn't steak into my head. The diagram did not helped
>> me much either.
>>
>> The second attempt was in June 2008. After the lab, on the way to the
>> hotel
>> i remembered that i forgot to do two things for two tasks, but even with
>> that i thought i would pass. The score came back in and after i calculated
>> i
>> was stoned (aroud 79%). My good friend Hrvoije Sostaric (a guy that i met
>> in
>> that FastLane boot camp) encouraged me to rase a reread which i did.
>> Normally this should have taken like 3 weeks but after 5 weeks i still did
>> not get any answer back so i asked Cisco: "what is going on there?" Few
>> days
>> after i received an email that the result is unchanged. I was complitely
>> depressed, but what could i do? The fact is a fact.
>> For this second attempt i have changed the strategy: i started to do the
>> top-buttom approach (but by analysing some of the implications for the
>> future tasks, for example if you have frame relay, then try to see what
>> protocol are you going to run there, if there is going to be
>> authentication,
>> just few things so that you do not do it twice) without any diagram. I
>> felt
>> that this strategy is much better and i had lot more time.
>>
>>
>> After this i took a short break due to the fact that i got a better job
>> into
>> another country at a company which name i am afraid to tell because some
>> of
>> you might consider that a blasfemy :) The guys at J encouraged me to take
>> the CCIE off of my head. So i started again...(this time since i did not
>> have my own equipments i started using Dynamips and rack rentals) I can
>> tell
>> you that it is quite interesting feeling to do both vendors at the same
>> time.
>> I started by taking my first moc lab (MOC3) from Internetwork Expert just
>> to
>> know where i am, if i forgot things or not, etc. to this one i scored like
>> 82 percent with very light mistakes. On the way i did another 2 Moc and 2
>> Asset labs.
>> Gys... i can tell you some of the moc labs are realy disscuraging. You
>> think
>> you did it and then BANG!! the report kicks you. Anyway the proctors at
>> IE
>> are very nice persons. Because i was not sure about the score that i
>> received, I wrote them about some of the tasks which i thought that i did
>> and they helped me understood what i missinterpret.
>>
>> Now the good part. Yesturday i have been in Brusseles for the third time.
>> I
>> was not scared about the lab anymore but the OEQ freak me out because the
>> paranoia is huge among the candidates.
>> I took a complete 30 minutes to answer the OEQ (at one moment the proctor
>> said that i am writting too much). I finished the lab around 14:30 i
>> reviewed it untill 16:25 (found one mistake, and i cleared up some more
>> possible missinterpretation with the proctor for some of the tasks). My
>> lab
>> strategy was to go streight forward (top to buttom) but try to see the
>> implications on the future tasks also (guess what it si going to happen).
>> After i arrived home, i was very nervous because of the OEQ mainly because
>> of the remark that i had from the proctor. I could not sleep all night and
>> now, around 4 o'clock i decided to take a look and see if i have update
>> from
>> cisco. I opened.... and.... BOOM!! the number :)
>>
>>
>> Now i know that a lot of you, candidates are interesting of the material
>> that you should use for the preparation. After i went through the exam I
>> personally think that there is no need to do some extra prep if you really
>> study for the lab. Anyway i tell you what i did: i took the IE product i
>> did it like 1 and a half times, i took also the free IPexpert thing and i
>> went through this one two times (just to get an ideea how the questions
>> should look like and what to study). After that i started to review the
>> materials for the written. In the last 3 weeks (think of this like 3 hours
>> per day during the week and full weekend, so if you have more time you
>> maybe
>> clear it out faster) i have used the Ciscopress and for some of the topics
>> that were not covered (like IPv6) i used TCP/IP 1,2.
>>
>> For the lab preparation, i would recommand you to visit IE forum, there
>> are
>> a lot of good discussions about each IE lab that they have and you can
>> learn
>> a lot from the guys that are doing the same mistakes as you.
>> Also find a strategy that works for you and then during preparation use
>> only
>> that one.
>>
>> First i want to thank Good for giving me strenght to finalyze this, than
>> to
>> my family and especially to my wife who supported me so much and
>> encouraged
>> me all the way, my good friend Hrvoje Sostaric who encourage me all the
>> way,
>> to the proctors of IE who understood my frustration and helped me
>> understand
>> what i do wrong.
>> As for the future i am planing to take a short break and then i will go
>> for
>> JNCIE.
>>
>>
>> Best regards,
>> George Roman
>> CCIE#24235 (R&S)
>> JNCIP#685 (M/T)
>> JNCIS (M/T), CCNP
>>
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