Re: Did I say to nail it down? CCIE #10342

From: Nick Shah (nshah@connect.com.au)
Date: Thu Sep 26 2002 - 18:08:42 GMT-3


Mate

Hearty congratulations...

rgds
Nick
----- Original Message -----
From: Mingzhou Nie <mnie@yahoo.com>
To: <ccielab@groupstudy.com>
Sent: Friday, September 27, 2002 1:28 AM
Subject: Did I say to nail it down? CCIE #10342

> 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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