Re: CCIE#27144

Congrats bro great stuff.hope u guide us.....
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-----Original Message-----
From: Maarten Vervoorn <mr.vervoorn_at_gmail.com>
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Date: Tue, 12 Oct 2010 14:14:35
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Reply-To: Maarten Vervoorn <mr.vervoorn_at_gmail.com>
Subject: CCIE#27144

Finaly I got it, my number! Prety confident I went to my second attempt of
my lab. I know all my stuff made notes everything I encountered on during my
studies. I learned from my mistakes last time. I took a hotel and have a
good sleep. Next morning woke up early, took a breakfast and a nice cup of
coffee. I went to the Cisco building at 7:45 to be on time. The proctor
arived at 8:15 and brought us to our place

First the troubleshooting section. The interface was a bit slow and also the
terminal response was slow. I went ticket by ticket, skipped one ticket
which I couldn't find the answer of. There were some difficult
troubleshooting tickets in there. I thought it was harder than the last time
I sat there. I finished the tickets in 75 minutes. So I had 45 minutes left
to check them all once again and look after the ticket I skipped. After 115
min I ended the troubleshooting session.

The configuration section. I went on question by question in the lab, did
not make a task tracking sheet. I only wrote down difficult things or things
that needed to be rechecked. I drew a L2 and L3 diagram to get familliar
with the topology. There were some very difficult questions in there which
needed a lot of thinking and drawing so that why I drew my own topology
diagrams. After 4 hours and 15 minutes I finished the last question. Now I
had enough time to recheck my work. And it was good I had this time. I
filled the time with reading the question 2 or 3 times more try to see if it
can be interpet any other way. I asked the proctor a lot of question during
that time to see if I interpet the question right. That was very very
helpfull. I corrected 4 or 5 questions during that time.
After finishing the lab at 16:45 I had a good feeling I might pass this
time. Troubelshooing was good and configuration was good.

I needed to drive back home for 210 kilometers I know its rush hour so I
didn't want to get stuck in traffic there. I avoided the highways a took a
nice meal in a little village. at 19:00 I left and went back to home.

The next morning started the cisco ccie tool to check my results, no results
there, The whole day I keep on checking, no results. The last time a check
was about 22:00 and still no result.
The next morning I woke up early I needed to check it right away. And there
it was: my number and the word PASS never felt that good.

I very very happy I finaly got It took me 18 months of studying. Each week 2
or 3 nights and one day. No excuse.

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