From: Robert Yee (robert@bluespud.com)
Date: Wed May 28 2003 - 13:56:43 GMT-3
Hi All,
I passed yesterday in San Jose. This was my second time to taket he lab. I got the e-mail sometime after midnight and clicked on the link. My heart was ready to pop out of my chest as I waited for the page to load.
The first line I saw was on the page was:
Current Status
- Certified (CCIE # 11716)
I couldn't believe it. I woke up my wife to tell her the news! I have not really been able sleep since finding out and have checked the web site many times to make sure I didn't dream it.
If you are curious, these are the tools I used to study:
1. Groupstudy (of course). I have a 20k worth of groupstudy e-mails. If I ever have a question on a topic, I seach locally and put the e-mails that I find useful in it's own folder for future reference.
2. IPExpert labs. I bought the lab set from IPExpert and used that to practice scenarios. The new lab (lab 36) is really good, but all the multi-protocol labs are worthwhile.
3. Rack time. I'm luck to have my own rack. I prolly spent about 400-500 hours on racks in the last 2.3 to 3 months and well over that during the last 8 months. I do not have VOICE or ATM on my rack, so I rented some time from 6CoLabs. That worked out great.
4. CyscoExpert. I spent the last 7 days at CyscoExpert in Chicago. They were great. I have to give them a lot of credit. I was about 95% prepared for my second attempt when I went to CyscoExpert. They were able to help me with the other 5%. This is the stuff that you have just not thought about. For example, some of their IGP redistribution scenarios were very very difficult, but in order to get it to work, you had to think outside the box. The class was a good assesment of my skills and knowledge along the way I picked up a few very important techniques that helped on the lab.
I was very nervous about the lab until I sat down and stated to type, then I was just concerned about the lab. I one overriding strategy this time.That wasto ask the procotr about ANY questions that needed clarification. I must have been up there about 20 times.
I finished my IGPs by lunch, pinged all interfaces saved and reloaded. Sitting in that cube really gives me a back ache, so I brought some Tylenol with me and also went for a walk during lunch to decompress a bit and stretch. I think that really helped.
Thanks GroupStudy!
Robert Yee, CCIE #11716
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