CCIE #7171
Well I guess it's time for my story. I finally passed at RTP yesterday after a couple of failed attempts. I was very calm on Day 1 since I had been there several times already. One guy quit after lunch and left. I thought I did really well on Day 1 and felt good going into Day 2. Another guy didn't bother showing up on Day 2. That left 3 of us. One lady didn't make it to Day 2 so that left 2 of us. Day 2 was tougher than Day 1 to me. During lunch I was going crazy with the waite to find out if I made it to Troubleshooting. I did along with the other guy. Then it took over an hour for the Proctor to mess with my configs. That was very hard sitting in the lobby waiting. Finally Troubleshooting....Troubleshooting turned out to be very difficult unlike what most people think. You get 3 hours to complete Troubleshooting...with 10 minutes to guy I hadn't found any more problems for about 20 minutes and pretty much gave up on finding more. The Proctor came by and told me when he passed he found 5 problems in the last 5 minutes after not finding any for 40 minutes. So I looked a little longer and found 3 problems. Now the hard part....It took 40 minutes for him to grade it. My Proctor strung me along pretty good before finally showing my that little yellow sticky with my number on it. I had 2 Proctors on the weekend and both were fantastic. Michael King
CCIE #7168
Long Journey, short note. Passed my CCIE today in RTP on my first attempt after studying for over 1 year. I think the key for me was a large home lab. With my schedule I could not have passed without it. ISP dial in June, so there is no time to rest, but right now it's time for a beer! Thanks to all my study partners, groupstudy, and very supporting wife.