RE: CCIE #27040

Nice work Narbik, I mean Justin

LOL JKROFL

-----Original Message-----
From: nobody_at_groupstudy.com [mailto:nobody_at_groupstudy.com] On Behalf Of Justin Mann
Sent: Friday, October 08, 2010 5:39 PM
To: Cisco certification
Subject: CCIE #27040

A late heads up that I passed my CCIE Routing and Switching in RTP a few
weeks back on Sep 22, my 3rd attempt (first was only weeks after the V4
update) and am now CCIE #27040!

First of all I can't say enough about Narbik's camps and materials, a
tremendous amount of positive feedback has already shown up on this mailer
about Narbik so I'll just say simply that in my opinion attending his camps
and working with his materials (that come free with attending the camp) are
up there with reading the Doyle books and getting plenty of hands on rack
time for a lab - in other words some people probably can pass without these
basic essential pillars for passing the lab but for the sheer amount of
value you get for your money why skip it?

I also used INEs Vol1 and Vol2 workbooks heavily. Unfortunately the
heaviest amount of time spent with Vol2 was during the months following the
Version 4 uplift and I honestly hit quite a bit of frustrating and time
wasting errors and problems with the content for a while. I have to add
however that the INE customer support and team were more than helpful and
that these errors have slowly been updated and whittled away and any
remaining at this point shouldn't take away from a strong candidates
practice and experience gained from the bulk of the content. With that in
mind I feel that the Vol 1 (great for reference and deep dive on any topic)
and 2 workbooks are definitely worth the cost to round out a candidates
study.

I spent right at 18 months with the above material and standard Cisco Press
library , CCO docs, 3 graded labs and also developed a strong set of
personal flash cards (I used a free/open-source programe Mnemosyne)
throughout all of it and reviewed these constantly whenever I had free time
(great for 5-minutes of dead time). For example I had cards for "Describe
the process to implement a BGP inject-map" or "OSPF Sham-link" with sample
configs and steps in the answer portion or just tech knowledge type cards
and after making several hundred of these cards and flipping through them on
a regular basis found most any solution came to mind pretty easily as I
worked through the final months of mock labs.

There was a lot of frustration along the way but it's definitely worth it
and there are vendors, professionals, and groups like this out there to help
you along the way and it is so worth it in the end! I really don't feel
that I can add much more than the above with all of the terrific support
already out there other than to add my encouragement for those out there
hard at work on this life changing cert!

Now it's time to catch up on 18-months of reading and gaming that I missed
out on!

justin

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Received on Fri Oct 08 2010 - 20:53:03 ART