From: cacca mucca (caccamucca@hotmail.com)
Date: Wed Jun 29 2005 - 10:33:33 GMT-3
Congratulations!!!
>From: "George Cassels" <glcassels3@nc.rr.com>
>Reply-To: "George Cassels" <glcassels3@nc.rr.com>
>To: "'Group Study'" <ccielab@groupstudy.com>
>Subject: CCIE 14815
>Date: Tue, 28 Jun 2005 20:05:43 -0400
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>ALCON,
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> It is finally my turn.I passed today at RTP. So I have seen
>several people put together lists of things that helped them that is
>based on mostly technology. I am going to do something different here.
>Here is my list of general things:
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>1. Get a good nights sleep the night before.I know this seems
>obvious, and a hard thing to do, but even if it takes you going out for
>a long walk, a big meal and some beers try to do it.
>2. Get up early so you don't have to rush. You are under enough
>stress on this day without adding some on yourself by being late.
>3. If you a morning routine try and stick to it. IE workout, go
>for a run, drink coffee and read the paper
>4. Leave your home or hotel with plenty of time to get to the lab.
>You can never tell how the traffic is going to be in RTP day to day so
>give yourself plenty of time.
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>Now for a couple technical points.
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>1. Know all of your options on each technology. I can not tell you
>how much this helped me. Being able to go progressively through my
>option as they gave requirements and took away options definitely helps.
>2. Have a plan. I knew going in what my plan of attack was from
>start to finish. From rebooting the routers at lunch which oh by the
>way showed me a problem that I had not seen during the morning. To
>running my ping tests again after lunch before moving on.
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>I can not tell you how much of a help the great posts from Tim, Gladson,
>John, Chris, Lee, Dennis and others helped me. I know there are people
>out here like the Brian's, Scott, Bruce and Bob who are really the
>SME's, but before we let them give us an answer try labbing it up and
>sending the answer yourself. I learned so much labbing up things that
>others posted trying to either figure it out, prove it wrong or just see
>how it works. You can not learn technologies unless you try it
>yourself.
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>Also it is human nature to focus on areas you are strong at but it
>really pays off to spend more time on your weak areas and just brush up
>on areas you are strong in. Before I close someone once told me that if
>you are strong on the core areas you will pass. I proved that theory
>wrong on my last attempt getting 5 X 100s and still failing because I
>did not focus on my weak areas. Again thanks so much gang.
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>George
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