@showipintbri - CCIEorBust - Attempt #4

you you you you you you you you you you you you hi everybody i'm tony e at show IP interface brief and i and the day is here it is finally here another reveal I can't believe it this has my heart is beating out of my chest I am like rubbing my hands together nervously and my voice is getting all jumpy and I have sweat in places that well I'm sweating I'm shaking a little bit because because I'm quite nervous my kids are on the in the living room streaming this live when YouTube on my TV so hi kids I'll have them come in here in a little while and do the and read the results I want to give some folks time to shuffle into the channel I just want to say thank you so much for it thank you today as I say thank you so much for for the entire community out there supporting me it has been it has been a really amazing journey and it's something that I've said a whole bunch I've said it a lot that this journey this CCIE journey is mostly a lonesome one do you wanna say hi alright go back over there let me finish I'll call you in when it's time thank you it's mostly a lonesome journey and and which is why it has been so incredibly important for me to surround myself with with such an amazing community finding so many great people and and people that I call friends now you know most of you aren't strangers we've been through some an emotion with some emotional times together we are friends now it has been really amazing and it is what led me and is what kept me going through this journey I'm not gonna rehash the last two years of my life but but it has been ups and downs it has been a lot of wins and and even more losses my journey my CCIE journey has taken almost two years to complete I don't it was last year my grandfather died and you know I didn't I didn't pump the brakes you know we kept going through it my myself and my wife and my family brought another child into the world number three during this and I didn't pump the brakes there have been a lot of times of depression right of not figuring out how to keep going forward after suffering so many losses exam losses but but it's been really inspiring and motivating and awesome to have all these people in this great community behind me that keeps me motivated to to move forward I think it was just about a week or two ago I posted a thread on Twitter it was about a five or six tweet thread where where I was having a bit of like an existential crisis you know it was it was it's it was stupid for me to to you know to reach out to to voice my problems publicly but I got so much awesome feedback from all of you in the community that said you got this Tony it's it's in fact I think it was I think it was Darren Folwell who said the existential crisis is part of the journey is you have to have that that that's part of your journey you you have to to go through these ups and downs it's not just a linear linear journey where you just keep climbing the mountain and once you reach the top it's over there are lots of of peaks and valleys I want to give a big shout out to to everyone that's here Ben gamble Demetri Robert Eaton thank you so much Matt Elliott Jordan Martin thanks you for for tuning in Robert Rittenhouse Edie summers Luke McCormack so many people my buddy the land tamer Kevin running on empty Matt Smith's everybody thank you thank you so much for tuning in it's all of you that have built this community and have been so supportive of Yasmin Lara thank you so much Neil thank you for coming in and all of you have made the community every time I felt down like I couldn't do it it was all of you that gave me the punch that I needed to keep going and and I hope that I'm able to do that for some of you whenever you need it my very good friend the land tamer this has been an amazing journey that he and I have sort of taken together we met each other our paths crossed on this journey and they keep crossing and and that's so amazing I've met so many awesome people from this community in Cisco life and I want to thank all of you for coming up to meet me and if you happen to see me again at the next Cisco live because I'm planning on going over there in Las Vegas stop by and say hi I this is what it's about it's not about you know the certificate or the piece of paper that is awesome but the knowledge that I've learned and the people that I've met it's the community and you all are the people that I've met so thank you all for supporting me amazing I can't believe I'm here there's so many great people here ah Rica Carlton Dubois everybody thank you for tuning in thank you for tuning in I'm not going to rehash my last lab attempts but I do want to go over some important things that happened this time and and how I felt about this time my confidence level what I struggled with and and we'll see if that translates into a a win or a loss I'll tell you what whether I win or whether I lose I'll be surprised let's go so this is attempt number four for me I tried to jot down some notes after I after I took my exam so some some thoughts that that I didn't want to forget this time there was a young man who sat next to me first of all the when I got to Richardson the CCIE lab Center the labbing room is completely different than it has been for the last three times they've combined two rooms into one it looks like they've removed a wall instead of open tables now it's like cubicles so everyone has like you know you're in sort of a little walled cube the setup is still two monitors you know two large monitors a keyboard and a mouse and and the proctor now has his own little office it's got a window in it there's cameras all over the ceiling and there's Locker space and you eat lunch in the same room so it's quite a different experience than what I have experienced for the last three times and prior to taking the exam the day before in the hotel I do something that I don't normally do which is I try to meditate I close the curtains I turn off all the lights I just get in my socks and the rest of my clothes and I don't play any music or anything and I just sit in silence and I try to meditate I try to visualize actually taking the exam maybe other people don't have to go to this sort of extreme but I do I have to really put my mind in the location in in the test to really prepare myself and it was really hard to do that this time because I couldn't even visualize the room it was completely different you know my buddy the land tamer took it just a few weeks ago and told me that the room was different thank you all for joining in thanks everybody so so the room is completely different I did some meditation and I tried to prepare myself as best that I could and and once I arrived it was a holiday Monday was a holiday here in the US and Martin Luther King Day and so the Cisco offices were sort of closed there weren't many people around there and there was no one to greet us at the security desk the front desk Leon greeted us at the desk and he said secure the the the front desk person isn't here and he'll just sign us in so so we went through the sign-in procedure you know and everyone filled out what they wanted for lunch I get the same Deli club that I got each time I don't know if it's good luck or bad luck but um it's not that good I've had better but I don't care I'll eat it again if I have to you know if I got to go take this damn exam again I'll eat it again and and we go back to the testing room we put all of our things away we power down our cell phones we put them in little lockers and we all take a seat and we sit down Leon gives us a little one-minute spiel to kind of to kind of you know let us know what we can expect for the day as far as timeline goes and and we get logged in and we get started and for those of you who don't know who haven't been through this CCIE yet there are in this format of CCIE there are three sections there's your troubleshooting section that's first off then there's your diagnostics and your configuration section and there are three separate sections so you everyone starts with their sections with the same sections in the same order with different topologies I guess or different tests but everyone starts with those sections with regard to their tests so immediately I get logged in and my first section is the troubleshooting section and as soon as I log in I immediately recognize the topology I am so blessed that I think I had a repeat topology now that's good in one respect whereas I didn't feel like I got hit with a surprise but that doesn't mean that it did me any favors because the last time I took this was a month or so ago month and a half ago so I don't remember how to solve any of the tickets in fact I'm not even sure if I have the same topology if it was the same tickets it could be different tickets I'm actually don't remember that level of detail but I did recognize the topology I guess because it's more visual so I sort of recognized the the map and and I'm working through the tickets I start and there's a couple of different strategies to work through the troubleshooting you either just go and order or you read each ticket and figure out where to go or you know there's definitely a five-minute rule you try to stick yourself which is like don't go down a rabbit hole work a ticket until you get stuck and move on and I worked ticket number one I felt pretty good about my answer submit was no submit but ticket number two I felt pretty good about my answer and I'm working right down the line and I realized that I hadn't hit I got about half more than halfway through and I hadn't hit any four pointers for pointers are the hard troubleshooting tickets there's there's two pointers three pointers and four pointers I don't really remember but I think four points are the hardest ones and I didn't hit any yet so I'm thinking like I'm trying to pace myself and making sure that I a lot more time for those four pointers that I do for the for the two pointers and I'm working my way through it and finally I hit a four-pointer and I felt really good about my answer and then I hit the next ticket and I get another four pointer and I felt really good about that answer I think there was at least one ticket that I definitely had a question mark on and in fact I left some feedback for the exam I realized there's not many much opportunity for anyone to read that feedback like it's not going to impact many more people because we're almost done right with this with this cut of the CCIE lab exam but I did get some feedback of something that I feel like is a discrepancy I don't know you know we'll see how it goes I will tell you at the end of the troubleshooting section this was the first time that I did not use the additional 30 minutes that you can extend your troubleshooting section so I kept me locked in to that two-hour mark and I was done with all of my tickets to the completion level that I was satisfied with with just a few minutes to spare from the two-hour mark so I felt pretty good about that I would say right now if you asked me I say I passed troubleshooting I'll put a checkmark in that box I feel confident about that I don't know if I passed all 10 tickets but I feel pretty confident that I passed troubleshooting the next section is Diagnostics the Diagnostics section is the section that I am a fan of the least the Diagnostics section I actually I want to tell you I actually think it is a really cool model to test someone's knowledge you don't get to interact with any devices you don't get to type on any CL eyes you just get output you get email chat between a customer and a technician and then sometimes you get an escalation chat between a technician that wants to escalate a ticket to you it's basically like solving helpdesk tickets you get some syslog output you get some CLI show command output but you don't get to touch any devices and actually I really think this is a really strong model for testing someone's knowledge because you really have to look and be able to identify quickly what is the most important parts here that is that is affecting this and affecting that making this problem and then you have to answer very quickly from a drop-down which device and what command or what would you change on which device to either fix the problem or to identify the problem or whatever the however the question is worded and when I started this diag section this diagnostic section I felt like I might have seen this one on my very first try way back in April I don't think I solved diag in April I don't know you guys have to go back and watch my videos I'm not sure if I did I think so but I seem to remember this sort of like little topology view they give you or some of the tickets and I'm so this diag had three separate tickets I guess we call them tickets and I'm pretty sure oh thanks Luke I did a pass/fail fill in first time yeah that's correct so diag I I don't think I solved the even if I if I got the same diag section this times I did my very first one I didn't solve at that time I think I solved my first ticket this time relatively quickly and I felt confident with my answer then I'd move to ticket number two ticket number two threw me for a loop I'm like I don't know what's going on in fact I remember getting this same topology and this same little problem last time and I think I passed diag last time or that even the time before that but this time it was the same sort of topology but a different problem so that just goes to show for anyone taking these exams you may get repeat topologies but the questions or the problems will be different within them you know so it's not an ace in the hole to get a repeat but this time ticket number two threw me for a loop and I was going through the output and I could not figure it out until there was about and so I think I found out what it was and I hit submit on that one and then I got the ticket number three ticket number three I only had two minutes left and I'm glancing at all the output and the devices and the topology and I'm trying as fast as I can just to submit through I mean just to read through it to acquaint myself with this issue and I didn't even have time to like randomly throw answers in instead the window just closed and gave me an error message it said you are not authorized to access this page or some sort of error message still liking oh my god I couldn't believe it I'm like what just happened so I immediately got up and went to go ask the proctor Leon I said hey I didn't get finished the diag section but the window closed and said I'm not authorized I just want to make sure that the two tickets that I did solve are submitted they're counted because I never really hit submit on that third one that end exam button I never hit it I wanted to make sure that I didn't forfeit my entire diag section he said no no if you solved two of them a two out of the three those should be submitted you just got to move on to your next section and I'm like I just I was so flustered at that point I mean I couldn't I was like oh my god this could be the end of my whole exam my fourth attempt couldn't a whole tried on this section not being submitted properly I can't believe it so at that point I decided to take a walk I decided to excuse myself and just go to the restroom and this is a lesson that comes from CCIE test taking multiple times experience when your brain is like when when you get emotionally hit like all of a sudden I realized like I think I just forfeited my whole exam because I didn't submit an entire section when that happens your brain goes into panic mode when you're in panic mode that is no time to start the configuration section so I packed it up went for a walk I just went to the restroom which is down the hall and around the corner went to the restroom I used the restroom I splash some cold water in my face and I cleared my head and I said you know what whatever happens this is I'm taking this test whatever I'm finishing this thing so I went back in there got my head cleared I felt really good about it and I actually took a few moments I was gonna say minutes but a few moments before before starting my config section and and I took a minute just to just to gain my composure sit there and and I did I made a chart on my piece of loose-leaf paper they give you like one piece of loose-leaf paper that has your login credentials on it and I went ahead and made some columns and some rows very similar to to how Chris outlines it in his blog maybe I can put a link but it's where you identify all of your tasks in one column their point value in another column and then whether or not you've completed that task or verified that task and then any additional description or details you want to quickly jot down and this is a chart that you take the time to make so that when you're reading through the exam you can quickly notate things before you actually begin your config and so I took the time to make that chart I don't I think in the past I have rushed that but but the config section is a story onto itself so I'll take a moment here just to just a pause I want to thank everybody for joining me on this stream I want to thank all of the friends who are who are here supporting me people who have been through this you really know what it's like I'm sure and people who haven't I hope that me sharing this story and sharing my experience is helpful to to learn and identify some of the experiences that you can face because you're definitely walking into a very hard exam hopefully you're at the peak the pinnacle of your of your knowledge and of your study habits and you're prepared and hopefully by me sharing my story is helpful to help you get prepared for things that you can't study for like what it's like walking into the exam and what it's like to have to submit an unfinished section and and and stuff like that so so I want to thank all of you you guys are the community you guys are all here and and I can't believe it so so thank you so much also if I can I'm going to try and pull something up if I can I'm just typing something in a browser and then I will get this finished I really liked one of my last tweets and so I went ahead and and stood up a teespring I hope all of you will take a moment if you want to and in and enjoy I just posted a link in the chat it's a it's is sort of a t-shirt that I made of from a saying that I put on Twitter and it's something that I'm definitely going to be rapping at the next Cisco live and at my next networking community functions something that is is very cool and I want to say that if anyone decides to purchase one of these shirts from my teespring account I'm going to go ahead and gather up some of the money or all of the money maybe and and invest in some of the CC ie the new CCI ebooks and maybe be able to provide those to some people who are who are really interested in getting down with their studies and and moving up from the from NP up through their ie it this is what being part of the community is all about it's about supporting one another and and this is my way to try and help support that so so if anyone wants to go ahead and do that that's what I want to do with with that and it would be cool to see a bunch of t-shirts out there that's a route like a butterfly ping like a bee so so let's go the the final section is is the config section and so there's a lot of different strategies to work through the config section I've taken this exam three times prior to my last attempt and I've heard from a lot of people in a lot of different study communities and and I've read a lot of blogs on people voicing their study strategies and not study strategies but test taking strategies and how they prepare for the config and how they lay it out and there are many different ways to go about this but there's one sort of method one sort of strategy that has always looped back in the circle anyone who's been part of the router gods community knows that this is one that gets passed around in that community a lot and it's the breakdown of your task points completion right your TPC chart and as well as so-so so once you start your configuration section you're greeted with a full-screen topology that is so big it can't even fit on the damn screen and it's packed with so much detail and it's so much so misleading and and it's really not optimal right now I think most network engineers when they draw something on a whiteboard it's clear look I have stuff on the whiteboard that is clearer than the exam but what you do is one of the strategies is to go ahead and open up the tasks and to start reading through the tasks and so start making notations on your chart task one point one the point value is to you haven't completed it yet and any details okay this is switching this is a spanning tree task two point one is is which site is it right your topology broke up into different sites you do like site technology and any details not TPS reports that's right TPC reports TPS reports so-so so you put your details down in there and once you do you the the whole strategy here is to you do an entire read-through of every task that's asked of you before you even touch the CLI before you even touch one device of CLI and that allows you to sort of notate quickly details in the past I have done it up to that point but what I normally would do is I would start back at the top and start on task 1.1 and start my configuration right away right almost everybody brings up a notepad and starts typing away some sort of scripted CLI input that you want to copy and paste into multiple devices that's a pretty common strategy most people have developed that throughout their Cisco training careers and I'm and I do the same and I do the same in the past I would work from my tasks mostly from top down and that's because I didn't mind doing some things out of order a lot of times a task to one is a depent is dependent on task 3 1 being solved but I didn't mind doing things out of order in the past because normally if you work through them if you understand what they're asking it's all gonna work in the end and and this time I took that same sort of approach of notating everything in pretty good detail in high-level detail but then on the back side of my paper I drew I just did a site name for all the different sites there's always like a headquarter site and a datacenter site and there's various remote sites with different names there's a core of your networks like you can write these and then what I would do is under each of those I would just put the task number that goes under each of those and again this is exploring explained in great detail in Chris's blog I'll see if I can have throw if I can put a link here to its networking playing CCIE strategy config section I'm gonna copy and paste this into the chat so you guys have that for reference anyhow I kind of just took this I kind of did my own version of this strategy but largely it's based off of this so I write down each task and and put it in the corresponding site and what that enabled me to do is it enables me to sort of tackle all of the tasks for one site at a time and and this is something this is a way that a lot of people have discussed like oh you got to do it this way this way works you got to do it this way and I've always been like I like just going top-down well this time I went off script and this wasn't the first time actually for the last few days leading up to my exam I rehearsed this way so let me take a pause just and back up four days prior to my exam I called my manager at my work and I said hey I'm taking my CCIE exam my fourth attempt on Monday and I'm really nervous about it and I'm really stressed about it I don't really have a lot of time to study and prepare I know it's last-minute but do you think I can have like off maybe tomorrow and maybe the next day to like study a little bit and I said it's gonna inconvenience my coworkers but I guess might be my last shot I really need this and he kind of just like thought about it for a moment and and gave me the thumbs-up and he said I tell you what why don't you go ahead and take Wednesday through Friday and take care of all the studies that you need and that's exactly what I did when starting Tuesday night I got all my labs ready I got two different lab environments up and fired up and ready so that I could hit a troubleshooting lab in the morning and a config lab in the afternoon back-to-back and I was ready and it was during this Wednesday Thursday and Friday lab sessions I stayed right here in this room with a little tower fan in front of me drinking coffee all day labbing labbing labbing and I practiced this technique this one from from Chris's blog and one that shared among many CCIE communities especially the router gods I rehearsed this technique and it was the first time I had done this which was just last Wednesday I went ahead and started it it was very not natural to do it this way for me for me but I went ahead and rehearsed this way and I didn't really see any benefit to it as I was practice labbing it was new for me and I was just getting kind of used to it okay I did that Wednesday Thursday and Friday my lab date was Monday morning I utilized this technique and it just felt like all the pieces fell into place I was able to write down all of the tasks and their details I was able to break him out in the sites and when I got started with config I banged out my layer to section sections 1.1 1.1 point 3 1.4 boum boum boum boum I did those all in a No pad I didn't even touch the CLI of the devices I did those all in a notepad and had him copy and paste ready I did the entire thing in a notepad and pasted all my layer 2 stuff in that was a huge advantage and because the paste when I pasted them in it was successful I didn't have any CLI errors it gave me like a boost of confidence I'm like hell yeah now this is working we can make this work so I started doing that and I and instead of tackling per tasks going task 2 1 & 2 2 & 2 3 I was tackling them per site and just like I would normally would when I'm designing a network right I want to get my core of the network built before I do my remote sites and I want to focus on the data center as it's like a little you know animal all to itself and in the remote sites you know it can be stamped out or repeatable hopefully you know in a good design and there's a headquarters and that's a little separate and you can tackle these these topology these uh sites in a topology and just knock all of the tasks out for that section and I was able to do that with one section and I just typed up all you know whatever router router one router to router three and in a notepad and went ahead and started typing in those sections and I did that on a notepad and when I was done nearly completely with that section pasted it in and you know with minor CLI errors I was able to quickly adjust my first paste and then the rest just pasted in on the rest of the routers that gave me a huge advantage and helped with efficiency like you wouldn't believe also in my three previous attempts attempts I never used the keyboard shortcuts in the CCI you lab environment the keyboard shortcuts are typically in putty most people who use putty know when you highlight something in putty it gets captured into your clipboard and as soon as you right-click you don't get a context menu it pastes immediately and that's how I've been training at home for years but the CCIE lab is different you can highlight with your left mouse and it goes into your clipboard but when you right-click in the putty it gives you a context menu where gives you the option to paste and some other things and for my three previous attempts I was right clicking to paste not this time baby I was holding shift and doing the insert which again is just one of those things that I've learned from all the people who came before me that said use the shift insert to paste shift insert to paste was way quicker than utilizing the the mouse it's just it's it's naturally human it's I think the human is naturally quicker on the keyboard then then you are navigating with the mouse secondly to close putty windows typically I'm navigating with the mouse and trying to click that little X in the corner of the screen but because you're working in like this like VDI remote desktop environment sometimes the mouse is a little laggy and it's hard to get it lined up right on that X it's much easier just to click the title bar of that putty window and alt f4 alt f4 closes the window so you're able to quickly close a bunch of windows and quickly paste things in it rocks it helps with efficiency like you wouldn't believe so I worked my way through the exam through the config section just working it working it and I tell you what it was it was just after lunch lunches out on about noontime just after lunch the kid who sat next to me and I say kicks I think he was a younger young man the person who sat next to me at about 1:30 p.m. he was done he got up he said ah I think I'm done I did everything and I don't think he quit and left I think he was probably successful because he was in the cube next to me and over there I kept hearing him working on the keyboard in the mouse and I would hear yes you know yes you know that's sort of like I remember doing that in like first or second or third grade when I was like you know grading a test or something you know a teacher would say the answer to seven is 45 and you hear every go and that's what he was doing he was done by one thirty in the afternoon naturally that took a pretty heavy blow to to my confidence I'm like holy crap here I've thought him at the top of my game and better than I've ever been and it's 1:30 and I'm not close to being done you know I'm just getting the groove but but anyhow uh he was the only person who finished with that early and and and left so so for the rest of the config section I am efficient I am working through things and one of the things I kept telling myself in my head this time was don't work against the test work with the test in all of my previous attempts every time I would read a requirement and I would try to configure it and like I wouldn't like I would get kind of like caught up on the wording or I'd be stuck or I wouldn't know if it would work or I'm troubleshooting an actual problem during config I'm working against the exam the exam is working against me not this time this time I said you know what I'm just going to go with the flow here I'm gonna work with the exam whatever it says whatever ridiculous tasks they're gonna throw at me even if I think it goes against everything that I would normally do I'm just gonna go with it and doing that made more and more of the tasks successful and successful and to my surprise I couldn't believe it some of the tasks give you output that you have to match a traceroute that snakes its way through freakin I don't know 20 routers and back down again and you got a match every hop and every hop coun and whether or not it's its load balanced across multiple devices or not single path and I would get some of that output and it would match I would say oh my god it matches that's what I go yes and not every task has output you have to match some do and as I was working through them some would work and some wouldn't and the ones that wouldn't I didn't let it bother me again I went with the flow I moved on down the line finish work in the exam then go back in check and it got to the point when I was looking at my checkoff sheet my task appoints completion sheet I had about two vacant boxes this is more than I've ever completed in a lab attempt more than I've ever completed in fact I had time to kill I was done before the exam was done except for two boxes and I said you know what sometimes I'm type of person when I might just go like 90 percent good enough for me I'm out but I said you know what I'm leaving nothing on the table and thanks to everyone in the router guts who said leave nothing on the table so actually i sat there and I hammered out the last two things and one of those things actually I want to take a moment here and and just say that right before my exam there was a member of the larger networking community whom I've never met who recently passed away you guys know him as MIT mister multicast mr. beau Williamson and and definitely the moment I started that multicast section I thought about it because it was it had recently happened right before I got ready to take my final attempt here so so that did pop in my head and I wanted to make sure that I left nothing on the table and got every point especially out of that multicast section and and my final section the one the last one was a network services specific task and and that is I think the only task in the config section that I am not sure if I did correctly I felt very good having time to kill at the end of the exam I went back through everything twice verifying my put matches exactly the output that they're asking and then I went and read through each task to make sure that I didn't miss anything and I didn't do a fine-tooth comb because if I did that I probably still wouldn't be done but I did it to the point where I was like you know what I've left nothing on the table this is this is everything I have I have never felt like I've performed this well this is the best I have to offer and I will tell you I'm gonna reveal my results and get ready to get my kids in here whatever the results are I'm going to be surprised whatever the results are I'll take if it's a fail this time I'm sure it's because of diag and I'll be back and if I pass then I go into hibernation back to my family so so so thank you I think that's everything I want to get logged in I want to get logged into the cisco site i got to pull up my email and get my credentials and then i got to holler at my kids and get them in here and have them check the results again i just wanted to remind everybody i started a little teespring store i put a link in the chat it has the the saying that i put on their route like a butterfly ping like a bee if anyone wants to purchase a shirt it's something that i'm gonna be wrapping at all of the networking events that i go to you'll see me at Cisco live and any proceeds that come from from buying a shirt I'm gonna try and pull together to help buy some books and materials for those people who want to continue their certification studies anyone who wants to get into the CCIE studies I want to make sure I'm able to to help and give back to the community and this is this is just the one of the many things that I hope to be able to do over over the next period of time okay so [Music] okay I have to look for my email and then find my credentials and get logged in hey kids I'm not ready yet let me get logged in to make sure I'm not showing my screen has my name honey give me one minute I am so nervous right now my heart is beating out of my chest oh my god what the hell is my password oh oh oh okay okay wait a second here is my sign-in okay so what I'm gonna do here is I got my credentials and you put that down put it down I got my credentials keyed in I'm gonna hit the sign in button and what I remember yeah it's a still password password one capital P exclamation point I'm gonna hit the Sign In button and then I'm going to cover my eyes I don't know if it's the first thing that shows up or not but I I don't want to see it let me see I do have a drumroll let me see drumroll drum roll okay Teddy I'm going to I'm going to close my eyes all right come over here to make the phone okay right you got to read it okay oh my god oh my god okay you ready yeah does it say anything it's Oh pass fail fail fail [Applause] [Laughter] [Applause] [Music] yeah oh my god my next recertification date is my hands are numb is January 20 2022 I oh my god actually I'm so dizzy right now I might fall right out of the damn chair here is my number it's in the chat 64 908 oh my god what is there to say I'm going to thank you my honey we're gonna celebrate we're gonna celebrate oh my god let me see if I can pull something up on the screen hang on hang on let me see let me see if I can pull something up on the screen [Music] [Music] all right I think hang on it's coming I think it's coming oh how about them apples I love you guys like my daughter she told me that I was gonna pass she told me she prayed and that she made a wish and what did you do a little bit yeah my hands are sweaty don't don't don't mind me yes my hands are sweaty oh.nothing my water I don't want anyone to get sick thank you guys love you all right go get your pajamas on get to bed this was tomorrow night's game night is amazing yeah yeah yeah I am this is this is really incredible we do whatever you want this is a big deal thank you I want to thank everybody this was you know I've been at this for a long time with with most of you and this has been pretty pretty amazing thank you to everybody who joined me on stream tonight and and I can't believe it what I will say what I will say is there's still a lot that I don't know there's still a lot that I haven't learned I don't feel like an expert in all Cisco technologies that's a pretty broad thing I don't look like I don't feel like an expert but what I do feel like is an expert lab er right I've labs thousands of ways tons and hundreds and hundreds of labs and I feel like an expert lab er and someone that can competently lab most technologies and that's that's amazing I can't believe it this is going to afford me and my family to take some much-needed time away from studying and away from the computer and and to start having family time together again so this has been awesome everyone thank you so much I can't believe it thank you Demetri thank you the land tamer land tamer has been one of my close friends through this entire journey and I truly can't could not have kept this going without him some of the amazing people we've met together yeah Ben gamble says Ben Gamble's one of them we spent some awesome time together in Arvixe boot camp the pre-exam bowling is what did it Demitri looking forward to the dinner in a Greek place in Las Vegas to celebrate with the land tamer absolutely evan minster see you in california I'll see you guys next month I'm really looking forward to it thank you everybody d Basel what's next now that you got your digits do you get a promotion I don't know it's my boss on here or no so what's next what's next for me some time off is next time away from studying and getting back into the family groove the journey of learning is never over in fact my true focus is more security and I'm not talking about cisco security real security security architecture logging and sim and signatures in rules and and in understanding how all of these things incorporate to build real visibility and protections that's really what my professional focus is on and every step that I've taken through the networking journey has made me better at that in fact I have a huge advantage about above other people in doing the same thing who don't have a networking background they just don't understand what you can get out of a P cap and it's really really amazing yeah see you at the CCIE party I'll be there man I hope am I gonna take the enterprise lab next month for fun no I think after you pass a CCIE lab I think you can't take another one for six months or three months I am looking forward to sneaking over to Pearson and taking the the new CCNA definitely definitely the new CCNA I want to see what's on it and I want to be able to help people people always come at me what can I do for CCNA how can i how can i how can I prepare and I want to be able to give a solid answer for the for the new for the new exam and and help and get feedback so thank you everyone for joining me tonight this is amazing Parag thank you buddy Carleton see you in Vegas bro thank you so much Matt Elliott thank you I hope you show up at Cisco live bro tcp dump 101 thank you dude Maximillian yeah everyone mobbed me for my plus-one it's the IE party tony is buying in Vegas don't die always though well no that's not true that's not true to meet Dimitri paid last time we were in Orlando so but yes we will find a way I will pay well done Tony thank you so much Ben I really appreciate it Ram Bista thank you for tuning in my good friend you did it yeah I did it Ram Chris miles giving you a bunch of shoutouts he on owen stream for your blog post thank you so much and Jim thank you see you in Vegas I'll be there AJ thank you John major thank you thank you this is really awesome Demetri yeah man I don't know if I'll be able to sleep tonight I probably won't sleep tonight Rica see you in Las Vegas go to the Cheesecake Factory you can forget it but if that's where you'll be then we will come by there me and the posse we will come by there thank you all for coming here how long did it take you since you've been in networking actually it's funny I would just I just took a screenshot I just where the hell is it I just took a Cisco just sent me my acclaim badges and it they sent me my CCNA a claim badge which I have here if I could find it what the hell did I do primary forum social oh here all right my clean CCMP CCNA and if you can see that here maybe you can't maybe it's not readable uh the 13th of December 2013 is when I got my CCNA I got my CCNA before I even had an IT job because because because I'm a high school dropout with no college degree I needed a way to get into IT and so my way of doing that was to earn my first certification which was CCNA before I got my first IT job and and that's what I did I busted my ass I studied a lot at night and while my son was very young and we were just an early fast starter family and and I got my CCNA before I started so there you go 13 December 2013 dotnet Rica Dimitri I can't Rica it's late for you it's late for you - Dimitri but I know you're up anyways just think I am officially an expert now I can sleep this is incredible I can't believe it yes 64 908 that's my number that's not anyone elses that's my number yeah I'm getting lots of thumbs up I could always update my blog with a follow-up post CCIE route and switch I'm the best engineer I've ever been blog post that's right that was a good blog post and you know what I guess now I'm the best engineer I've ever been so maybe you're right maybe an update is on it a tattoo is unusual I think yeah Thank You Rika for turning in but yeah 64 908 that's me how's the new CCIE compared to routes which I don't know it's going to be new topics new material I hope to one day study up for it and and be prepared enough to take it but that's not what I took there are many like it but that number is yours that's right it's all downhill from here gosh I hope not but thank you so much everyone for tuning in I'm going to go to bed I don't know no I'm not going to sleep but thank you thank you so much Emmanuel Minesh no Mensa Emmanuel Mensa thank you so much for tuning in I really appreciate it shave the number into your chops for Cisco life yes I do have some rather gorgeous chops but I don't know if they are there enough enough for for a number oh good night honey alright so so let me wrap this up yeah 64 908 thank you everyone I'm gonna wrap it up this has been amazing and I don't know what else to say but thank you to everyone in the community who has helped me along the way and in hopes that I can help someone also go over to the the teespring shop and see if you can grab a shirt and we're gonna put together pull up all the proceeds and and provide some some learning materials for those people who are trying to get their certifications just like I did it's been a year that was two years in the making and now it's done goodnight

Channel: Tony E

Views: 2,645

Rating: 5 out of 5

Keywords: 100DaysOfLabbing, CCIEorBUST, CCIE

Id: 7cFkNnAulHo

Length: 63min 21sec (3801 seconds)

Published: Tue Jan 21 2020