Iwan Hoogendoorn

Hi,

I’ve come to the part that I need to gather a lot of information on the CCIE voice blueprint specifics.
This in order to pass the OEQ part of the exam …
This is what I am using to study:

I am thinking of buying the INE CCIE Voice Core Knowledge Simulation package for $99 but I first need to know how big the pool is of questions they are offering.

I also created my own set of questions that is based in the content that can be found in the SRND guides…

When I have the feeling rhat I know enough to pass the OEQ part I am going to review the Cisco Networkers (Live) 2009 CCIE Voice Techtorial PDF.

There is also a very important document from Cisco with the ports that are used for the voice applications … I am sure that I don’t need to memmorize all the ports from the document. It;s important to read trough it and I highlighted the importand ports that I REALLY should know for the OEQ training…
You can download the document here –> Cisco Unified Callmanager TCP and UDP Port Usage (247)

I hope this is enough …

Hi,

There are 2 new Blog posts available that I did in service for IPExpert.
Enjoy reading it on:

CCIE Voice Basics by Iwan Hoogendoorn
and
Voice Codecs Required for CCIE Voice by Iwan Hoogendoorn

Have fun reading it!

Iwan Hoogendoorn

As you possibly already could read from twitter or facebook I passed the CCIE Voice written exam today.
I passed this (Voice Written) exam for the first time somewhere in January 2008 during Cisco Networkers in Barcelona.
Because I had a weird year with stuff hapening in my personal life I did not had time to do the LAB exam within the 18 months
period that Cisco wants you to it after passing the written.
So I needed to do it again … and that again was today.
Initially when I parked my car before the exam I tought … “I am going to nail this exam” and I was a bit too confident.
After I started the test and gone trough the stupid bla bla enquete questions I started to notice that this test was
harder then I expected.
I did not had 100 questions as I tought but I have 104 questions … The passing score that I needed to get 720 points out of 1000. You can view my score report by clicking HERE –> CCIE Voice Written Score Report (329).
As the test continued and I was ansering all the questions … I had realized I had too much questions that I needed to “guess” for the answer.
At the end of of the test when I needed to press the “END EXAM” button I had a feeling that I did not made it.
It took an awfull long time before the result was presented and I was looking at the screen like I did not believe the score …
Anyway I had a happy feeling but I was still suprised that I scored 820 points.

This is my 6th CCIE Written exam (and the 5th one I actually passed) so it did not felt like the first one …
When I passed my first CCIE written (R&S) I tought I already was 1/2 CCIE.
But that was not true at all … and it’s not true now!
I passed the written exam for now but I can say that I haven’t got anything at all …
It’s allmost the same as:
- I have a Audi R8 (but I don’t have the keys)
- I have the fastest computer on earth (but the power is not working)
- I have the hotest woman on earth (but … I think you can fill this one out for yourself)
 
So this means that I have to start building the LAB and do the real training.
I already started setting up the servers needed for this exam in VMware … and I also builded a part of the lab in dynamips as you
can read in my previous blog post.
I know I can not test all the features like this but I can do at lease 85% of all the features.
For the final 15% I will rent some rackspace from proctorlabs.

Thanks for reading and catch you next time!

Iwan Hoogendoorn
CCIE3 #13084

Hi Guys,

After not studing for almost a year now I feel that there is someting missing and I feel that I need to do someting again. After planning and thinking about it I am finally going for it. I am going to study for the CCIE Voice exam.

Yesterday I allready made a planning and ordered some books, I am also busy getting the servers installed on VMware that I will be needing for my CCIE Voice exam.

Today I am going to book my CCIE Voice Exam for the 1st of October … and study towards this date … and I am going to start to build the following servers in VMWARE for the LAB exam!

• Cisco Unified Communications Manager 7.0
• Cisco Unified Contact Center Express 7.0
• Cisco Unified Presence 7.0
• Cisco Unity Connection 7.0

I also found some very usefull links that I can use and this is one of them –> http://ccie.gresz.ca/

Well Guys WISH ME LUCK because: I WILL BE A QUAD CCIE!!!

In the past when I had no CCIE at all –> I WILL BE A CCIE!!! so I am saying this with a smile on my face now