Re: Passed CCIE Storage!! Triple CCIE!

Good !
God bless you my child !

Thanks
Shahid Ansari

On Thu, Aug 5, 2010 at 12:33 PM, Antonio Soares <amsoares_at_netcabo.pt> wrote:

> Congratulations Rick. Really amazing !
>
>
> Regards,
>
> Antonio Soares, CCIE #18473 (R&S/SP)
> amsoares_at_netcabo.pt
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: nobody_at_groupstudy.com [mailto:nobody_at_groupstudy.com] On Behalf Of
> Rick
> Mur
> Sent: quinta-feira, 5 de Agosto de 2010 04:18
> 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 IPexpert, Inc.
> URL: http://www.IPexpert.com <http://www.ipexpert.com/>
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