I have been away from my blog for several months… About my CCIE RS study I am starting all over again. Things did not go as I have planned. First I planned to go to Narbik’s bootcamp, which was cancelled. Anyway, I decided to go for my first attempt and see what happen… Unfortunately during last August I went for my first attempt and I failed 
I was a little disappointed since I have been spending a lot of time for my preparation including the nights during the week, weekends and several days from my vacations… For me this coast is even higher that the 2000€ miserable lunch that I had!
I was not so terrible, but even though a little far for the needed 80%… Let’s say that if the passing score was 50% I would be a CCIE now 
But that’s not, so I will face it again!
In the troubleshooting section, there was nothing that I was not really expecting. The worst part of this section is that we have to solve the tickets exactly like Cisco wants. For example, accordingly with my experience I didn’t get the points from 2 tickets that I was counting to have… Probably I broke some restriction or something like that. I think this is really the major difficulty in this section.
In the configuration section, after the troubleshooting section and till lunch time I was a little lost… This became a disaster in the end, since I run out of time to solve all the tasks, so I had to leave some tasks that I knew how to configure it.
I must confess that I was very disappoint with myself for several days… But never thought in giving up, nope, that’s not going to happen, not after all the efforts, time, money… Sooner or later that’s something that I’m going to achieve!!!!
Meantime I received some good news, since the Narbik’s bootcamp in UK will take place this November, so finally I will meet Narbik and maybe learn some of his magic 
Just kidding, I have only hear very good feedback about his bootcamp, so I am just expecting to fill some gaps that I have, and ultimately helping becoming a better engineer. That’s one of the reasons that I choose Narbik, I don’t want a bootcamp just to pass the exam… Do you know what I mean???
A part of this, I have take another big decision (more €€€€), since I decided to go to my 2nd attempt still during 2011, so next December I will face again the beast. Let’s just hope that this time I will nailed it down!
Wish me luck!
