CCDE Saga Continues!

Well, my CCDE saga continues. On June 30th, while attending Cisco Live! in Las Vegas, I used the opportunity to take the written exam once again. I'm proud to say that not only I passed, but my score improved compared to the beta result by 5%. This is my 2^nd best result on any expert-level exam so far. The best score I had was for CCIE R&S v4.0 beta. Incidentally, this is the first non-beta written exam I took in more than 3 years. I missed all the unpolished questions, to be honest. It looked weird.

What is the next step? Of course, passing the practical exam. I'm still undecided whether to wait October/December delivery date, or be brave and go on July 19th to London. I will keep you posted. One thing is certain, I will have to reread quite a bit of Optimal Routing Design and some other books that are recommended.

I want that blue ribbon.

She'll probably be upset if I decide to go to Lodnon, since I haven't seen my home in almost a month and it will only get worse as year grows older. But, I have nothing scheduled for 19^th and it may make sense to use that time.

-Marko.

Reproducing Blogs

Just a quick note. Some of the technical blogs I wrote here will soon be preproduced on IPexpert's CCIE Blog. The biggest reason for that is that I always wanted to write couple of follow-up articles on some of them, but I never had the time to do it. Now that I work for IPexpert, I finally have the time, but it would be a little bit silly to point back to my personal blog.

Stay tuned for some more.

She's still with me, even though She needed to go through whole CCIE ordeal. True CCIE wife, I can tell you.

Restarting the Fun

I started this blog back in July 2008, when I was part of Cisco's CCDE beta program. I accepted playing the crash test dummy and it wasn't very successful - unless we count passing the written and rectifying my CCIE SP. The practical test I took in October 2008 was not a success.

Fast forward 2 years, I now have one more CCIE under my belt (for those of you who didn't understand my last post - yes, I've passed the R&S), I have a little bit more experience and more importantly - I have green light from my current employer to pursue CCDE again.

Yes - I'm back and ready to give it a go, one more time. Well, few more times to be honest. I expect that I'll have to brute-force it a little bit and go two-three times to try the test, but hey, it's a difficult and complex test.

I don't believe I'll be blogging a lot on this subject, as most of my blogging efforts are now focused on IPexpert's CCIE blog, but I will write a post or two in due time. For now, I'm off to read some more of Optimal Routing Design. Safari subscription makes that a little bit easier.