Alexander from Russia (Saint-Peresburg)

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Hi folks!
Hi Rene Molenaar!

There is not too much I can tell you about my cisco experiences, although I got some cisco certs and even tried to pass the CCIE R&S exam.
I gave been working in IT industry over 12 years and my primary area is Routing/Switching. Planning, architecting (designing), configuring. And of course tech support for our sellers.

But things went weirdly and I had to work a lot with IP Telephony, particularly Cisco and Avaya.
I have a lot of experience with OpenSource stuff such as Astrisk and Freeswitch especially.
R&S experiences helped me out frequently especially when I had to communicate with IT guys from Telephony world and Network (IP) world. It is quite useful to know all these stuff nowadays becouse of ā€˜IP-ingā€™ everything everywhere.
Year ago my boss says that it is time to graduate CCIE R&S otherwise I will be executed. Joke of course :slight_smile:

So, regarding my Cisco experiences:
I have passed CCNA (R&S and voice/collab), CCNP (R&S and voice/collab). And since last year i have been struggling to get CCIE R&S. I had passed CCIE R&S written exam and tried to self-study. But I failed last december. My knowledge and experience is quite small especially when it comes to be ā€œmake it quiclky!ā€.

Surfing the Internet I frequently hit networklessons.com with plug of Rene`s saying ā€˜all other stuff will be yours when you registerā€™ :slight_smile:
Some time ago (may be 3 or 4 years ago) I have bought ā€œHow To master CCNP Routeā€ from Rene and I liked the way Rene explains the things. Thanks a lot, Rene!

So I bought account and here I am! Ready to learn and get more knowledge.

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Hello Alexander,
Welcome to the forum! We are excited to have you as a member. It looks like you have a great career and no plans on stopping. Iā€™m sure you will love all of Reneā€™s content. If you have questions ask them in the forum! I hope to see you get a CCIE number soon and I hope you can help us less experienced engineers by answering our questions!
Thanks for Joining,
Scott

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Hello Alexander!

Welcome to Networklessons! Weā€™re looking forward to communicating with you over the next little while to help you out with achieving your goals. We wish you success and we await your questions!

Laz

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Hello Alexander,

Welcome on board :sunglasses: Iā€™m glad to hear you like my work!

CCIE R&S is a difficult exam. There is so much stuff you have to learn. As a rule of thumb, I always tell people it takes about ~1000 hours. It takes a lot of time just to go through all topics and to lab so often until it all becomes muscle memory.

Do you have a plan / time schedule to prepare for the lab?

I always recommend to book the lab exam in advance, this makes it very real and you have a set date to work towards. Itā€™s like a marathon, nobody would train to run 42km / 26 miles on their own if there wasnā€™t a set date where you have to do it :slight_smile:

If you have any questions about CCIE, let me know ok? Good luck studying for now! Itā€™s difficult but itā€™s worth and it very rewarding once you complete it.

Rene