June 28th - RTP

The flight is booked, the lab fees are paid, and I am in the last 5 weeks or so of intense study.

I have a feeling the gap between here and there is a little to wide, but if I need to wait until October anyways, I am willing to take a shot.

If I pass, I have the rest of the summer to do something else

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If not, then I have the experience to help focus the rest of my studies.

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mikej412

Looks like its going to be a busy summer around the CCIE Forum. Or maybe it might be empty if everyone is studying.

Good Luck!

I just bought the IP Expert Audios for Security & R&S -- I figure I can listen to them while I sleep and put those 4-5 wasted hours a night to work (or study).

sprkymrk

Good luck Pete!

Pash

Best of luck mate.

Webmaster

Good luck Peter

And great job on getting your plans realized, was just reading your first posts in these forums from 3 years ago.

Megadeth4168

Good Luck!

tibul

Good luck from me also.

Ricka182

Good Luck!!!

wildfire

All the best Peter,

when you go on your tour to celebrate look me up for a game of golf

seraphus

BoL, dude! I look forward to your victory!

-prophet-

Two weeks till payday!

How are you progressing?

Cheers,
-prophet-

PStefanov

Good luck!

Turgon

PCHoldmann wrote:

The flight is booked, the lab fees are paid, and I am in the last 5 weeks or so of intense study.

I have a feeling the gap between here and there is a little to wide, but if I need to wait until October anyways, I am willing to take a shot.

If I pass, I have the rest of the summer to do something else .

If not, then I have the experience to help focus the rest of my studies.

Good luck.

PCHoldmann

Two weeks from today.

Spending my time going over the DocCD, working on speed on some core issues, I will probably do a QoS, IPv6, and BGP review, several lab hours on each.

Been trying to keep the nerves in check, at least I know (and have worked hard to convince myself) that not passing this thing the first time is not the end of the world

Pass or not, I am going to take it easy in July, enjoy some of the summer, go to Networkers, and give some time back to my wife, she deserves it.

I figure I will have a pretty good idea by lunch if I have a shot. If 2 hours to go comes and I know I am well short, I am just going to try completing as much as possible, with minimal verification untill I get past the 80-85 point range, then go back and verify with whatever time remains. Even if I break something, if I did not have the points for a pass, I would not have passed anyways, so what would it hurt? If I am over the 80 points "complete" mark, I will cherry pick the easy questions to finish, and then spend the rest of the time verifying.

Good luck tomorrow, Mike.

Peter

dtlokee

Good luck on the 28th.

When I was there the guy next to me left at about 11:00, guess he figured he didn't pass and there was no way he could. No matter what happens it's a learning experiance and should be treated as such even if you don't pass.

I made the mistake of waiting 6 months between attempts, and if I don't pass on my next attempt I am going to hawk the CCIE website looking for an opening ASAP to try it again (I don't advise wating too long, it's suprising how much you start to forget). To Quote Mikej412 I'll join the "lab of the month club".

mikej412

It's Travel Day!! Have a safe trip!

Good Luck!

7255carl

best of luck

ITdude

Good luck and hang in there!

Webmaster

Good luck Peter!

PCHoldmann wrote:

P.S. I'll try to let you all know how mine goes early

Ahriakin

Indeed, best of luck tomorrow

navfett

i have been lurking mostly and havent posted in a while. Not that i was missed or anything. But i wanted to add in my two cents & say best of luck to you. Hope that you come out pleased and hear good news with your #.

~~ navfett

Paul Boz

Good luck tomorrow

PCHoldmann

Thanks All,

I will let you know how things went tomorrow.

Peter

Pash

Ooooooo good luck!

PCHoldmann

Well, this is a lot earlier than I hoped to be updating you...

I did not pass...

I did not fail...

Someone cut a power line right before lunch, and they canceled the rest of the lab!

At least they said that they would provide a free lab, and work to get us in soon.

Peter

Ahriakin

(no words suffice)

Megadeth4168

PCHoldmann wrote:

Well, this is a lot earlier than I hoped to be updating you...

I did not pass...

I did not fail...

Someone cut a power line right before lunch, and they canceled the rest of the lab!

At least they said that they would provide a free lab, and work to get us in soon.

Peter

Someone cut a power line.... Was it someone doing the lab and it wasn't going their way?

mikej412

PCHoldmann wrote:

Someone cut a power line right before lunch, and they canceled the rest of the lab!

But you still got lunch, right?

I'd expect a free lab.... but what about travel expenses? Any word on those?

Even if you don't get anything for travel..... was it worth the look? Were you configuring BGP when it happened?

PCHoldmann

No, they were putting in signs... no lab candidates in the area...

Yes I did still get lunch...

And that's scary, yes I was doing BGP...

Not sure about travel, I doubt it.

As to being worth it... It I didn't feel like I had a shot today, it would have been, but I was feeling OK about it. Not sure I would pass, but I think I had a shot. I do have a few things to look at, though, but not more than 6 pts, that I probably could have picked up from the DocCD.

Webmaster

Wow, how unfortunate and what a bad timing.

dtlokee

That's very unfourtunate indeed. Hopefully they resolve it for you quickly.

I think it underscores a problem with the lab though, I know they say "save your configs often, we're subject to power hits" but they should have some sort of generation/ups system for the lab. I don't know that it adds to the lab experience to "wr" every 10 minutes.

Was the lunch atleast good?

(I'm going to be there on Monday myself)