Re: CCIE#27144

Maarten:
Great job. Congratulations!!!!
You worked hard for it.

Thanks
Larry Hadrava
CCIE #12203
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On Tue, Oct 12, 2010 at 8:14 AM, Maarten Vervoorn <mr.vervoorn_at_gmail.com>wrote:

> 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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