Re: CCIE #27040

Congrats mate ! You deserved it !

Gaurav Madan
CCIE

On Sat, Oct 9, 2010 at 3:09 AM, Justin Mann <mann.justin_at_gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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