Re: Passed the lab, some tips: "a week before the lab".

Hi Achievers,

Well done. Congrats Artem, Charlie, Muzammmil. (27703,27704,27705).

Regards,

On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 9:55 AM, Muzammil Malick <malickmuz_at_gmail.com>wrote:

> Well Done Guys
>
> Great achievement, and just goes to show that the TS isn't all that
> intimidating if you have prepared with your own break fix scenarios.
> You guys are the next to pass since my exam aswell because i note
> Charlie is 27704 and Artem is 27705! (I am 27703 from Brussels!)
>
> Major congrats again, and start enjoying your time.
>
> On 14 December 2010 05:11, Joseph L. Brunner <joe_at_affirmedsystems.com>
> wrote:
> >>Before going to the proctor made 3 different versions of the question in
> your head and be prepared to hear "I can't tell you it", "do what the
> question says".
> >
> > Don't go to the proctor AT ALL unless there is power or equipment failure
> until the last 90 minutes of the lab. Or he will Cuckhold you into the group
> of losers
> > Who come to help every day 10 minutes into the lab and try to be his
> "buddy".
> >
> > Act serious and look serious and the upperclassmen won't make you
> M*sterbate in the bathroom (old story a guy from India told me)!
> >
> > -Joe
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
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> oghenetejiri.groupstudy_at_gmail.com
> > Sent: Tuesday, December 14, 2010 12:08 AM
> > To: Artem Nedoshepa; Cisco certification
> > Subject: Re: Passed the lab, some tips: "a week before the lab".
> >
> > Congrats MAN!!!!!!
> > Sent from my BlackBerry. smartphone from Zain Nigeria
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Artem Nedoshepa <artem.nedoshepa_at_gmail.com>
> > Sender: nobody_at_groupstudy.com
> > Date: Mon, 13 Dec 2010 21:03:27
> > To: Cisco certification<ccielab_at_groupstudy.com>
> > Reply-To: Artem Nedoshepa <artem.nedoshepa_at_gmail.com>
> > Subject: Passed the lab, some tips: "a week before the lab".
> >
> > First of all I want to say thank you guys, all and each of you
> contributed
> > in my number: CCIE#27705
> >
> > I'd like to share my "story".
> >
> > 1.5 months ago I took the lab in RTP and failed the TS but passed the
> > configs. I was so confident about the TS that I thought I'd have an hour
> > spare time. When I got to the 3rd ticket I realized that I'm going to
> need
> > that "spare hour". During the TS it felt like the clock was going 1.5
> times
> > faster, no bathroom, no going to a breakroom. (in RTP the bathroom is
> kind
> > of far, not like in SJC - across the hole.) The config section took me
> over
> > 5.5 hours, I had about 20 minutes to verify. All this 6 hours I was
> worried
> > that I had only 8 tkt solved and most-likely some of them are incorrect,
> but
> > I was trying to stay as positive as I could be. On the plane home
> overall
> > feeling was that I failed both sections, because I didn't have enough
> time
> > to verify the configs and not enough tickets solved. The next day I got
> the
> > results and I was ready to see "FAIL".
> >
> > I booked the next attempt in 6 weeks in SJC since the RTP was booked
> until
> > February. I took it easy for a week or so, than started building a TS
> > scenarios with 30+ devices and all possible trouble tickets. A friend of
> > mine Charlie (who passed as well) and I used the approach : "To become a
> > criminal you must think like a criminal". You'll be surprised how much
> you
> > can learn by "breaking" stuff for your buddy. So what we did is we made a
> > .net topology in dynamips with 30 + routers, put some preconfigs (basic
> > routing, BGP, MPLS etc..), we also included almost all possible "ip
> > services" and other "stuff" that you see on the blueprint. Each of us
> made
> > 2 full TS scenarios for each other. By a "full TS scenarios" I mean 16+
> > tickets, and we made the tickets a bit harder that we experienced in the
> > lab. A week before the lab each of us had 2 "Super-sessions", 2 hours TS
> + 6
> > hours configs, (let your friend to pick the lab for your, whichever
> vendor
> > you use). These "super-sessions" with harder that in reality TS helped a
> > lot (we did it twice with one day delay). I'd recommend not to touch the
> > keyboard 2 days before the lab.
> >
> > SJC, the TS session started, 10 minutes passed 2 or 3 tickets done, power
> > outage :), believe it or not, I didn't worried at all, I went and made
> some
> > tea (another tip, don't drink coffee if you don't usually drink it, it
> > WON"T make you smarter/faster), went to the bathroom. It took the
> proctors
> > 20 minutes to fix the issue, we got lucky - the configs were saved but I
> > verified each solved ticket, just to make sure. I finished the TS with 30
> > minutes left. The clock was going 0.8 times slower this time, everything
> was
> > like in a slow motion, I don't know maybe because our TS was too hardcore
> > than the real one. The config part was fun, went to the proctors like 20
> > times, it wasn't clear, looks like somebody from another planet wrote it.
> > (my first attempt the lab was very clear, I went to the proctor only 3-4
> > times). Before going to the proctor made 3 different versions of the
> > question in your head and be prepared to hear "I can't tell you it", "do
> > what the question says". Take a moment and really think how to rephrase
> the
> > same question, show the proctor that you know the "stuff" and you just
> need
> > some small details to make the right decision.
> >
> > For preparation I used 4x3550 and dynamips, I made a little blog about it
> > ccie4you.info , for stuff that don't work on 3550 or Dynamips rented a
> real
> > rack a couple of times. Use SRS twice a day, I used Anki, so far it's the
> > best I've seen. (My anki deck has like 1300 cards).
> >
> >
> > Again, thank you all.
> >
> >
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