Re: CCIE #27040

hahaha ... congrats man ...

On Sat, Oct 9, 2010 at 9:00 AM, GAURAV MADAN <gauravmadan1177_at_gmail.com>wrote:

> 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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