Re: CCIE#25612

Ronald,

Also congratulations again ...
And nice story you have here ...
Very stimulating for the new students ...
once Congratsssssssssss

On Mon, Oct 5, 2009 at 2:19 PM, Ronald Johns <rj686b_at_att.com> wrote:

> LOL! I told my wife that, and she didn't think it was as funny as I did...
> Oh well. :-) Thanks!
>
> From: Narbik Kocharians [mailto:narbikk_at_gmail.com]
> Sent: Sunday, October 04, 2009 9:39 PM
> To: joshua lauer
> Cc: Ronald Johns; Cisco certification
> Subject: Re: CCIE#25612
>
> You should take your wife to a SP boot camp.
>
> hahahahaha I am sure she will love it.
>
> Congrates mate, excellent accomplishment.
> On Sun, Oct 4, 2009 at 4:08 PM, joshua lauer
> <jslauer_at_gmail.com<mailto:jslauer_at_gmail.com>> wrote:
> Great accomplishment,
>
> 4 years between lab attempts is a pretty good stretch! good example of
> someone who has their eye on the ball. I'll be making an attempt at SP this
> december, I'm not near ready but I figure I'll jump in and do it....took 4
> years off myself to get a PHD now I'm ready to jump into the fray again :)
>
> Regards,
>
> Josh
> CCIE 16024
>
> On Sun, Oct 4, 2009 at 5:51 PM, Ronald Johns
> <rj686b_at_att.com<mailto:rj686b_at_att.com>> wrote:
>
> > I know I already posted a quick response to my "lab score" question, but
> > wanted to tell my story. Hope this encourages anybody still hammering
> out
> > their studies for the R&S lab. Thanks to all who have already
> congratulated
> > me including tv. Sorry I flew off the handle a little - I was a bit
> > stressed out playing the waiting game.
> >
> >
> > My journey began a little over 5 years ago. I had already obtained some
> > Cisco professional level certs and figured the CCIE couldnb t be much
> harder
> > so I booked a lab and a bootcamp with IPexpert. I had some experience,
> but
> > nowhere near the skills necessary for a CCIE candidate, which I realized
> the
> > first day of Scott Morrisb s bootcamp back in 2005. That was back when
> ATM
> > and ISDN were still on the exam. At any rate, I barely made it through
> layer
> > 2, and got stuck on layer 3. I knew I didnb t have a chance.
> >
> > 3 years later after gaining some valuable experience on the job, and
> > putting together a lab of 7x 2811b s, 5x 2600 series (2 of them XMb s),
> 3x
> > 3560b s, and a 3550, I started hitting the books. I purchased the
> IPexpert
> > Blended Learning Solution, and worked through all 3 volumes (Volume 1 I
> > worked through twice), watched the videos and listened to the audio
> > throughout my study time, and read the following Cisco Press books:
> >
> > Cisco QOS Exam Certification Guide
> > CCIE Routing and Switching Exam Quick Reference Sheets
> > Routing TCP/IP, Volumes 1 and 2
> > Internet Routing Architectures
> > CCIE Routing and Switching Exam Certification Guide
> > Developing IP Multicast Networks
> >
> > I started studying on a regular basis after I passed the written back in
> > October of 2008, but really started hitting it hard the day they
> announced
> > the change and I scheduled my lab date. For the OEQb s, I used the
> IPexpert
> > as well as the Internetwork Expert Core Knowledge sims. Ib ve studied
> for
> > more than 500 hours since May. I put everything on hold b my band, my b
> > music to pray byb blog
> (http://www.musictoprayby.com<http://www.musictoprayby.com/>), and my wife
> and
> 1
> > year old child. In fact, we sacrificed celebrating our 10 year
> anniversary
> > on September 25th so that I could wrap up preparing for the lab. My wife
> is
> > awesome b she did this without complaining once. I couldnb t have done
> > this without her support.
> >
> > I want to thank IPexpert for putting together some of the most
> challenging
> > material Ib ve ever put myself through. After working through all the
> labs
> > and understanding the solutions, I actually felt a little over-prepared,
> > which is certainly not a bad thing. I would also like to thank everyone
> in
> > groupstudy for helping me out with the questions I posted. I didnb t
> > participate much compared to a lot of the other professionals who are a
> part
> > of this awesome community, but Ib ve been reading religiously for over a
> > year now, and that knowledge gained from yall has been a tremendous help!
> >
> > Hereb s a little bit about my lab experience:
> >
> > I flew into San Jose from Austin on Wednesday just so that Ib d have
> > Thursday to relax and get mentally prepared for the big day. On Friday
> > morning, we met the proctor b I actually remembered him from my last lab
> > date over 4 years ago. He showed us to the lab, and to my surprise,
> there
> > were these really nice Dell 24b displays at each station. I remember
> them
> > being junky CRTb s the last time I was there. The OEQb s were not super
> > easy, and if I would have relied solely on my lab experiences, I probably
> > would not have passed. I think the reading I did certainly prepared me
> for
> > these more than anything else. The irritating things were my keyboardb s
> > space bar made this squeaky sound that was really annoying and the guy
> next
> > to me had this habit of humming, but once I started my lab; I zoned in
> and
> > finished in a little over 4 hours. At this point, Ib m freaking out
> > thinking there has to be a page missing or something. So I took a little
> > over 2 hours going over everythi!
> > ng again very carefully and found a few mistakes. At 3:15, I figured it
> > was pointless to stay any longer so I did another round of tclsh pings
> and
> > write mems and left. As most of you know already, my score came in
> around
> > 11:00 PM Saturday night.
> >
> > Thanks again to everyone who has already congratulated me. Now, itb s on
> > to the SP track before they add OEQb s!
> >
> >
> > Ron Johns
> > Sr. Network Engineer
> > IT Department
> > CCNP, CCDP, CCSP, CISSP, CCIE#25612
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