Re: CCIE#27144

Well done Maarten, good job!!

On 12 October 2010 13:57, Sadiq Yakasai <sadiqtanko_at_gmail.com> wrote:
> Well done, sir!
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> On Tue, Oct 12, 2010 at 1:14 PM, Maarten Vervoorn <mr.vervoorn_at_gmail.com>wrote:
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>> 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
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>> 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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