We shall be sharing network related topics based on real experience. Below is text from my experience when preparing for CCIE. i hope this will inspire network engineers to pursue CCIE.
CCIE might not
be big deal to achieve and at the same time it can be a big deal as well. Becoming CCIE equivalent expert is
the hardest thing in my point of view.
I slowly started my study for CCIE in the beginning of 2015 by
Watching INE videos. It took me around 6 month to only watch almost all the
videos and making notes of the things that he found worth pointing in my Register
(I still love paper works 😊 I believe
they are more helpful in terms of learning than using technologies). It was
tough time since I had to come from my work; have around 1~2 hours of sleep and
start watching videos for 2~3 hours daily except the weekend 😝. It is very
hard to watch all INE track with routine job and sometimes re-watch the same
track if you think things were not clear.
Almost the next six month took me to practically perform the actual
INE labs. In the begging of 2016, I had a target to achieve my CCIE # within
2016. I have had read enough books already and was planning to take the written
exam real soon, which I did. People advised me to join any local boot camp so
that you know the latest updates as I was already one year old now 😊. Also, I might
find CCIE friend which I did at the end. I continued with that boot camp for like 3~4
month and apparently, I found some friends which I will discuss later. Along with
my routing job, I could hardly get 2~3 hours max every day for practice and around
6~8 hours in the weekends.
In September, it was the time I felt I was ready to take exam. In
the mid of September (I don’t really remember the exact date, also I am lazy to
login to 😉cisco and check the date 😊) I had my first attempt and unfortunately
I got failed. I took 50% in the troubleshoot part, passed my Diagnosis part
while configuration was the most interesting part. I knew that I am fail, but I
wanted to proceed with the configuration and consider it as an experience. I had
around 5 hours in the configuration part. I spent around half hour reading the
questions, and then started the configuration part. There were section for
security, services and some other section that I was not interested since I know
I am already failed. I just wanted to make sure topology is up and reachability
is everywhere. It took me more than 4 hours to ping test one of the results mentioned
in the question and that was one of the happiest moment I have ever felt. Unfortunately,
I couldn’t ping the internet as the session went off. I think I didn’t do the NATing
section due to which the internet was not pinging (but I am not sure)
With the failure, I was not sad at all. To be honest, I was so
happy as I attempted the exam and now I no more had the pressure and fear of
CCIE. I took my second attempt in January 2017, and by the grace of Almighty
ALLAH and I was able to pass.
How I managed to pass on the second attempt is worth reading which
will be explained in the second part :p ( so stay
tuned ) …
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