Re: Passed CCIE Storage!! Triple CCIE!

From: Rick Mur <rmur_at_ipexpert.com>
Date: Fri, 6 Aug 2010 23:00:41 +0200

Sort of :-) I basically just had no life for 3 months :-)

-- 
Regards,
Rick Mur
CCIE3 #21946 (R&S / Service Provider / Storage)
Sr. Support Engineer  IPexpert, Inc.
URL: http://www.IPexpert.com
On 5 aug 2010, at 08:18, Wouter Prins wrote:
> Wow Rick!
> 
> Congrats!! Are your days counting 48 hours? ;)
> 
> On 5 August 2010 05:17, Rick Mur <rmur_at_ipexpert.com> wrote:
>> 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
>> 
>> 
>> Blogs and organic groups at http://www.ccie.net
>> 
>> _______________________________________________________________________
>> Subscription information may be found at:
>> http://www.groupstudy.com/list/CCIELab.html
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
> 
> 
> 
> -- 
> Wouter Prins
> wp_at_null0.nl
Blogs and organic groups at http://www.ccie.net
Received on Fri Aug 06 2010 - 23:00:41 ART

This archive was generated by hypermail 2.2.0 : Wed Sep 01 2010 - 11:20:52 ART