Re: Passed CCIE Storage!! Triple CCIE!

Hi Rick,

Big congratulations to you. You inspired me :)

2yrs after I passed my first CCIE, I am still a 1x CCIE now. Wondering how
you get the motivation to push you forward..

On Thu, Aug 5, 2010 at 11:22 AM, Ryan West <rwest_at_zyedge.com> wrote:

> Congrats Rick, nice work.
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: nobody_at_groupstudy.com [mailto:nobody_at_groupstudy.com] On
> > Behalf Of Rick Mur
> > Sent: Wednesday, August 04, 2010 11:18 PM
> > To: Cisco certification
> > Subject: Passed CCIE Storage!! Triple CCIE!
> >
> > After a little over 3 months of intense preparation I passed the CCIE
> Storage
> > lab today! Officially making me a triple CCIE :-D I can't describe how
> happy I
> > am at the moment as it was a very intense wait for the results as this
> one is
> > hand graded, so you don't get the results overnight.
> >
> > For preparation I used the Cisco Press titles on SAN, the excellent Fibre
> > Channel Bench Reference Guide and the ieMentor Storage Workbook and
> > Walkthrough Guide.
> >
> > If you are preparing for storage be sure that you really build up your
> speed as
> > the storage lab is quite complex in terms of questioning as there are
> usually
> > multiple possibilities to solve things and they are very much looking for
> 1
> > specific solution (it's the same in all tracks, but I found that in
> particular with
> > this one).
> > They really ask you about the whole blueprint! If you are familiar and
> > comfortable with the ieMentor labs you have all the technical knowledge
> you
> > need, just pay very close attention to the tasks and what you are doing.
> >
> > As of hardware, together with Tyson Scott we build 2 full-scale racks
> with 3
> > MDS switches that we can do about 85-90% of all technologies. I also used
> > the ieMentor vRack a couple times to practice a few extra features that
> we
> > didn't have licenses for. That rack unfortunately doesn't hold a Storage
> > Services Module (SSM) or Generation 2 linecards (where you have to deal
> > with oversubscription).
> >
> > I'd like to thank Tyson Scott for his support and building and
> maintaining the
> > racks, Roman Rodichev for his excellent workbook and personal
> > support/coaching and Antonella Corno for her alltime support on the Cisco
> > Learning Network community and the fantastic sessions she teaches almost
> > every week.
> >
> > --
> > Regards,
> >
> > Rick Mur
> > CCIE3 #21946 (R&S / Service Provider / Storage) Sr. Support Engineer
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> >
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