Let's see when I can clear the CCIE Written now that I've officially changed
my name to Chuck Suneja... :-)
Bharat Suneja
"Chuck Church" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> 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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