Congratulations and thanks for the tips! -----Original Message----- From: Akusika Papaa [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, July 30, 2003 7:49 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: CCIE # 12026 - Longish [7:73135]
Congratulation and great job. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of NKP Sent: Tuesday, July 29, 2003 11:11 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: CCIE # 12026 - Longish [7:73135] Hi All , Its my turn to send the e-mail today . Tht subject says it all . It has been almost 8 months of rigorous preparation and I managed to clear it in the first lab attempt in Bangalore . My close friend and a study partner who had cleared his lab just a week before had given me a call when I reached back to the hotel after the lab , he had checked my results online and informed me before i could check the results. I am not a regular participator on this Forum , but here are some tips and pointers which I had used for preparation , which I would like to share with all of you without violating the NDA. 1) Create a Study Group of like minded Friends who are preparing for the labs , its been my friends who have elevated me to this level . We used to work on different scenarios of different practice labs from morning till night and compare our answers. We had a study group of 4 persons from different parts of India who used to stay with me in my vacant apartment , and I am highly obliged to all of my friends who have got me to this level . It would not have been possible without them . Try to meet as many CCIE's who have cleared or CCIEs who are pursuing there labs , ( without breaking NDA ) I have always learnt a new things from every candidate and CCIE's whom i have met as regarding there preparation strategy. 2) Some of the must have books for preparation are : a) Routing TCP/IP Part 1 and 2 by Jeff Doyle b) Troublehooting IP Routing Protocols - Gem of a Book , written by CCIE's in the TAC c) CCIE Practical Studies part 1 by Karl Solie d) Cisco OSPF Command and Configuration Handbook by William Parkhurst e) Cisco BGP 4 Command and Configuration Handbook by William Parkhurst g) CCIE Practical Studies Security ( by Dmitry Bokotey, etc...) h) Cisco CCIE lab Study Guide ( Hutnik and Satarlee) No matter how many books you invest in , it will always seem to be less. I have a collection of almost all the major published books of Cisco Press for the CCNP and CCIE R/s and Security , but there are still topics which you have to look for elsewhere . Some of the practice labs which we had referred to were of Ipexpert and ccbootcamp labs , but we did not do all the labs in them . 3) Build a Home Lab , You can practice for unlimited hours and work on different scenarios . Most of the equipments required have been listed here many times , so i wont go in details of them . 4) Rent online racks as well . We had mainly used racktimerenatals and bradshawlabs for practicing on ATM and 3550 . They are both good and cheap overall adding the total hours of the home lab and online racks , I must have practiced for more then 800 hours in the last 8 months. 5) DOC CD , know it inside out . During the last weeks of preparation I tried not to refer to any books and only refer to the DOC CD only for anything i did not know. Also know how to search for a topic on it , as you can not use the search on the home page on it . The Doc CD will be your best Pal in the labs . make this URL your homepage http://www.cisco.com/univercd/home/home.htm 6) The good thing in Bangalore is that they have practice labs which can be rented ot during the weekdays out here in which you get to use the same equipments at the premises of the testing lab , so I had booked that for 2 days last month and a day just before the exam , I felt more comfortable with the ambience over there and the phycological pressure of the first attempt was not there . 7) Lastly this groupstudy is an asset for all everyone preparing for the lab , I must have collected more then 500 to 600 postings in the past 4 to 5 months and created different folders in outlook as per the subjects and stored them for reference , I got to learn a lot from groupstudy and from @!#$.com , the posting of some of the regular lab trainers of CCIE are a boon in disguise . Go through each and every postings , even if they might not be relevant for exam point of view, they might be useful later on in the production environment. My lab was on Saturday,July 26th and i had reached one hour early at Cisco campus for the lab. It started right on time and the lab was straight and simple to configure . I had almost completed the lab by the lunch break , and it was over 30 minutes after the coming back from lunch. I then revised the whole test and found that there were a few errors and corrected them . Practice speed typing , use aliases , use other time savers which come only through practice on routers and racks as it is vital to have time left towards the end of the lab to revise all the configs . I had made some prepration strategy about 2 months before the exam as to how I would attempt and what I would do first on Layer 2 and then procced to what after that , simlarly i had also made troubleshooting stratagies for all devices and technologies just in case anything goes wrong anywhere in between , how to debug it then and there , which I used to use during the practice labs . I used to do the same way in almost all the practice labs and used the same for the actual day as well which worked quite well. I am now planing for CCIE security next and plan to appear for the lab by December hopefully if I am prepared , I I would like to form a study group for the same and practice intensively in the same manner , anyone interested in India or out of India may contact me offline . I would like to especialy thank all the active participants in groupstudy and @!#$ who had shared there valuabale postings which helped me to prepare and learn rapidly , I promise to participate more actively in this group now . Navin Parwal MCSE,MCT,CCNP , CCDP, CSSP,CCIE (R/S) # 12026 Technosys https://ecardfile.com/id/parwal "If a man empties his purse into his head, no man can take it away from him. An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest." -Benjamin Franklin- -- Navin Parwal MCSE,MCT,CCNP , CCDP, CCSP, CCIE (R/S) # 12026 Technosys https://ecardfile.com/id/parwal "If a man empties his purse into his head, no man can take it away from him. 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