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Collaboration Lab – Success Stories!!!

September 26, 2014 Vik Malhi Leave a comment

CollabCert would like to recognize two of their bootcamp customers on their recent achievements, passing the CCIE Collaboration Lab exam at the first attempt! Congratulations!

Andres Llerena – CCIE #41978 – (Voice, Collaboration)
Vince Mashburn – CCIE #28606 – (RS, Collaboration)

Here is what they have to say (thanks to them both for their kind words!)

“Vik Malhi has helped me get 2x CCIEs! I have attended Vik’s CCIE Bootcamp and was so impressed with him that when I found out he had set up his own company I already knew I was going to choose his new company to take the class for the CCIE Collaboration. Having had my mind made up already based off of his teaching skills and knowledge alone, I was VERY pleased to discover that CollabCert has invested a lot of time and capital in providing high performance servers that can handle all the VMs required for the lab. The time spent waiting for servers to refresh pages is gone! He has also invested in 2nd Gen ISRs for all the locations, including the PVDM3s required for the video components of the lab!

Many instructors have to get back to you with answers. That isn’t the case with CollabCert. Vik knows the answer. It’s that simple! The curriculum has been carefully laid out: designed to be simple, and yet is complex and tricky at the same time – accurately preparing you for the lab and the real world. He is passionate about his job and is one of the few instructors I’ve met that really cares. He has continued to provide assistance AFTER the end of the class. At the end of the day, I truly feel that he is not just your instructor, but your friend. Thank you, Vik!!!!”

Andres Llerena
CCIE #41978

“Thanks to CollabCert’s bootcamp and practice labs, I passed my CCIE Collaboration on my first attempt. Vik really helped keep the lab in scope of the current technologies that are on the blueprint. He also gave awesome time management training. I practiced for about 30 days with his techniques, using the CollabCert practice labs. When I got to the actual lab, I definitely noticed the payoff. I finished the entire lab configuration and still had time afterwards to spend the rest of the time testing and fixing mistakes. I definitely would not have passed without this bootcamp!”

Vince Mashburn
CCIE #28606

Would you like to join this prestigious list? Visit our website at www.collabcert.com and take a look at our bootcamps and self-study products, taught and developed by Vik Malhi.

Once again – Congratulations gentlemen!

Mike Down
Director of Business Development
mike@collabcert.com
408.800.4086

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Extension Mobility Cross Cluster (EMCC)

August 23, 2014 Vik Malhi Leave a comment

It’s been a while since I posted anything on here but I hope to give the CCIE Collaboration aspirants out there some regular updates over the course of the next few months. So why not start of proceedings with what is perhaps (at least in my opinion) “the beast” that is EMCC. In fact I would go so far as to say that EMCC is the natural heir to it’s predecessor- the beast of CCIE Voice aka IPMA! Anyhow- this 1 hour video (taken from the CollabCert LMS) is not for the faint of heart so be warned. Good luck labbing this up as part of your CCIE Collab studies, and you will hear from me soon in the same spot.

Vik Malhi, CCIE#13890
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CCIE Collaboration Overview

CCIE Lab exam “resit” policy changes

April 24, 2014 Vik Malhi 5 Comments

Some important news that affects CCIE candidates may have slipped under the radar (I certainly missed this and just happen to stumble across it here). If you go to 36 minutes into this video you will see first hand details of the policy changes.

CCIE Written Exam

Candidates will only be allowed to sit the same Written exam 4 times per calendar year. This applies regardless of whether you pass or fail.

Also if you fail a Written exam you are going to have to wait 15 days to resit (as opposed to 5 days).

CCIE Lab Exam

This is a big change. There could be folks out there who sit the lab every 30 days on an ongoing basis (for questionable reasons). It won’t be possible with the new rules since the 30 day policy will only apply between attempts #1 and #2. There is a 90 day window that needs to elapse before attempt #3 can be made. The 90 day window applies between attempt #3 and #4 and also attempt #4 and #5. Thereafter, you have to wait a whopping 180 days for every subsequent attempt. These changes apply for all tracks and are applicable from Aug 1 2014.

So let’s just pretend poor Jo Blo passed the lab on the 7th attempt. He would have passed the lab 660 days days after his first attempt (give or take a few days since I think the countdown starts the day after each lab attempt). How did I get 660:

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