Did I say to nail it down? CCIE #10342

From: Mingzhou Nie (mnie@yahoo.com)
Date: Thu Sep 26 2002 - 12:28:45 GMT-3

Hi, All

After 18 and a half hours mentally tortueing, I finally got emails from
Cisco, "Congratulations on Passing the CCIE Lab!", at 10:30 this
morning. I'm now CCIE 10342.

It's been hell of thirteen months with my first try was at 2 day lab. I
can't thank you more on this. It is this group that keeps me up all the
time. I want to thank

Omer - for being my study partener, and congrats to him passing it on
Monday
Brian, Brian and Fred Ingram - you guys are awesome. it's because of
you guys, groupstudy is so attractive
Jim Brown - your story tells us "never give in" spirit and you deserved
it
Nich Shah - you have solid knowledge I can see and number for you is
counting, never give up
Dmitry Volkov - awesome, passed in first try
Chris (Hugo), Chris (Larson), Guy Lupi, Hansang Bae and many many more
-
 thanks for helping me
Finally, but not lastly, I want to thank my wife and lovely son. W/o
you guys, nothing is possible.

My tips for you guys.

- study every possible technologies. I know some edge technologies are
not always tested. but don't take chances. sometimes a few points could
cost you. For those technologies, like ISIS, MulticasT, NTP etc, you
don't have to spend a week on each, but spend, say two days on each of
them and _make sure_ understand them, not just remember the configs.
It's actually part of study fun.

- take notes. a lot of questions have been asked thousands of times.
take notes on them and lab it out whenever possible. it's been very
helpful. don't say I didn't tell you :) I will be posting the notes I
have beening taken on my web server in a couple of days for you guys
review.

- be very very careful in lab, even though it means takes more time to
finish on one section, but at least you are sure that this section is
securerd. I still have some mistakes that I recall. Had I been more
careful, I should be much better shape.

A new chapter begins today

Mingzhou Nie, CCIE 10342

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