All,
I guess it was a good weekend to be taking the CCIE Written if your
name was Chuck! This morning I passed with a 75%. Had but 5 minutes to
spare, but never really felt rushed. It was a fair but mentally draining
test. None of the questions were ambiguous. I could have spent more time
studying BGP, IS-IS, and DECnet, but everything else was fairly familiar.
My score sheet doesn't list the number of questions in each section, but
I'll list my percentages for the possible benefit of the group. Things that
I used to prepare were:
1. On the job experience - I worked with Cat 5000 and 72xx extensively at
my last job which was a bank. Currently working for a reseller where I'm
doing everything from PIX to Aironet wireless. I can't imagine passing the
test without lots of hands-on experience.
2. Cisco Press books - Used the Halabi BGP book, and most of the actual
courseware from the CCNP track. Also used some of the titles from the CCIE
development series.
3. Giles CCIE prep book. Has some amazing (and amazingly boring) details
on token ring and FDDI. I think the Cisco Press books are much better,
though.
4. Certification Zone - Practice written tests and the white papers are
great. Well worth the money. The practice written tests are tougher than
the real one. I had scores of 600, 750, 700, and 710 these last 4 months.
Great preparation.
Now I just got that little lab thingy to pass :) What's the lead time for
scheduling? I'm thinking I might be ready by January? If there's anyone in
the NYC area looking for a CCIE lab study partner, let me know.
SCORES:
Cisco device operation - 71%
Networking Theory - 83%
Bridging and LAN switching - 70% Ughh, token ring
TCP/IP - 75%
IP Routing Protocols - 80%
Desktop Protocols - 87% Knowledge of NetWare helped here
Performance Management - 33% I have no idea what happened here
WAN - 83%
LAN - 60% I always thought I was better with LAN
than WAN...
Security - 100% This is more of a mystery than the 33%
above
Multiservice - 0% I assume there was only a couple questions
here.
Chuck Church
CCNP, CCDP, MCNE, MCSE
Sr. Network Engineer
Magnacom Technologies
140 N. Rt. 303
Valley Cottage, NY 10989
845-267-4000 x218
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