Well I didn't get it

CCIE # 20000 that is, but I'll take the one I got #19991!

Finally.

I thought this one was the most difficult of the exams yet. There were many issues that needed to be resolved throughout the lab. I was basically done by 1:30 and had the remaining 2.5 hours for verification. In that time I found 2 mistakes I made for a total of 5 points, not sure if that pushed me over the top or not but I was glad to find them. Lunch was pizza (papa john's). The proctor ran the grading scripts before we left the lab which was cool, made the traffic jam on I-85 more bareable comming home.

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rossonieri#1

well - i think i'm on the right place now to give a salute

CONGRATZ DT ...

once again ... well done.

cheers

mikeeo

You passed on your 4th time? what was your rack #?

dtlokee

mikeeo wrote:

You passed on your 4th time? what was your rack #?

The old number was 3 but they renumbered it to Rack23. the proctor said too many people would use 33 instead of 03 when it said to use your rack number in the lab so they changed them.

mikeeo

I'm glad they changed the Rack numbers because I almost cost myself a few points.

For example if they say make your VTP domain VTP+Rack you would think VTP4 if you are rack 4 right? wrong..its VTP04 so as you can see you've just lost 3 points. Also BGP AS is 20+Rack...AS 204..wrong AS 2004 is correct..your BGP is now wrong..say goodbye to 10 points...

Under the pressure of the lab you can see how this would be over looked.

Mrock4

mikeeo wrote:

I'm glad they changed the Rack numbers because I almost cost myself a few points.

For example if they say make your VTP domain VTP+Rack you would think VTP4 if you are rack 4 right? wrong..its VTP04 so as you can see you've just lost 3 points. Also BGP AS is 20+Rack...AS 204..wrong AS 2004 is correct..your BGP is now wrong..say goodbye to 10 points...

Under the pressure of the lab you can see how this would be over looked.

Wow! That is insane. Good to know.

kryolla

Congrats.

It will be hectic in my household in a couple of years. CCIE for me and BAR exam for the wife. I dont know what to do.

bighornsheep

kryolla wrote:

Congrats.

It will be hectic in my household in a couple of years. CCIE for me and BAR exam for the wife. I dont know what to do.

You mean besides loading up on ground coffee and getting an extra coffee maker or two? Oh, you should speak to your financial advisor about what you guys should do with all the extra money.

dtlokee

mikeeo wrote:

I'm glad they changed the Rack numbers because I almost cost myself a few points.

For example if they say make your VTP domain VTP+Rack you would think VTP4 if you are rack 4 right? wrong..its VTP04 so as you can see you've just lost 3 points. Also BGP AS is 20+Rack...AS 204..wrong AS 2004 is correct..your BGP is now wrong..say goodbye to 10 points...

Under the pressure of the lab you can see how this would be over looked.

Yeah I did that on a previous attempt with the BGP AS number, I was lucky that it was an AS that peered with the backbone router so when the peering didn't come up I had to troubleshoot it and noticed what I did.

mikeeo

Most people I know passed on thier 3rd or 4th try, I know when Bobby gave me my sticker for the day he said "Rack 4...again"..and I replied "4th time..Rack 4...hmm must be an omen"

Where in NJ are you? I'm in Delaware PM me sometime I know some guys that are going for CCIE SP.

itdaddy

LATE BUT AWESOME JOB BIG GUY! YOU DESERVER IT! WOW!
YOU THE MAN!

WOWOW WOWOW

ROBERT

r_durant

Yes, I know I'm chiming in really late on this, but I've been off the site for a long time...and when I started back visiting daily, I realized that you had your CCIE#, so I started searching for this post and finally found it today!!

So like most have said, a hearty congrats on achieving the CCIE, from our interactions in the CCNA forum, I for one know you're always there helping and truly deserving on the accomplishment!!