Re: New CCIE

[Joe Martin]

Heres some of my books:   Routing TCP/IP by Doyle Internet Routing Architectures by Halabi Bridges routers and switches by Caslow CCIE Design and Case studies by Cisco Advanced routing for Cisco by Slatterly All-in-one Study guide by Giles All-in-one lab study guide Hard copy of all the 11.2 manuals   Other material:   Certificationzone.com Fatkid.com Cisco ASET lab in San Jose   Lots and lots of time!!!   JOE CCIE#5917 ""Z. Hassan"" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... Congratulation Joe. Pls. give us some sight about the books that you read to pass the exams Regards, Z. Joe Martin wrote: H  e  l  l  o   from Sunny San Jose. I've just arrived back in my hotel after sucessfully completing the CCIE R/S lab. My brain isn't quite functioning correctly yet, but I wanted to pass along a great deal of thanks to everyone in the group.  I have learned so much from each of you.  I'll try to continue to lurk and help when I can. Here's a bit of my story: I'm 33.  Got my first computer when I was 13.  20 years.  Wow!!!  Fell in love with programming.  At 17, I got a job teaching college and was building custom IBM compatibles for a friends business.  I taught continuing education computer classes.  Did that for three years to help pay for my own college.  By my third year of college I burned out on programming.  I'd finally come out of my shell and found that I didn't want to sit in a cube all day and write code.  I then went to work for a small telcom interconnect and learned all about PBXs.  Did that for 7 years.  I decided to make the leap back into "real" computers and data.  I went to work for the phone company as a field data technician.  Did that for 1 1/2 years and then became a Sales Engineer.  Been doing that for about 3 years now.  I've got lots of hands on and plenty of different certifications(Cisco, Bay/Nortel, Fore/Marconi, etc...).  Last year, I decided to work towards my CCIE.  I also decided to get all the intermediate certifications along the way. Starting from last April to November, I did my CCNA, CCDA, CCNP, CCDP.  In January of this year I did my Voice access specialization.  In February I passed the CCIE written.  I've been hitting my engineering lab at work ever since.  I did 4 hours a nite every day of the week and 12 hours each day of the weekend since then.  Its been 3 1/2 months of hell.  My wife has been very understanding. Boy, was that a long rambling paragraph.  Hope my highschool english teacher isn't reading this! Thanks again,     Joe Martin     CCIE#5917, and a couple of other things... ___________________________________ UPDATED Posting Guidelines: http://www.groupstudy.com/list/guide.html FAQ, list archives, and subscription info: http://www.groupstudy.com Report misconduct and Nondisclosure violations to [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- ___________________________________ UPDATED Posting Guidelines: http://www.groupstudy.com/list/guide.html FAQ, list archives, and subscription info: http://www.groupstudy.com Report misconduct and Nondisclosure violations to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---