We are back with a new HCIE interview! Today we will meet Arslan Satti, HCIE R&S currently working for TechAccess, Huawei partner in Pakistan. Arslan has already joined our HCIE Experts program and you can find him in the Community as @arslantariq. You are welcome to read more about his experience below:
1. First of all, can you please share a bit about your professional background and current occupation?
Started my professional career as Core Network Support Engineer back in 2015 in ISP network, since then IP Networking sounded very interesting to me. I have worked in ISP, Banking and Public Center TIER-3 Data Centers networks that provides exposure to IP networking requirement for different industries. Currently, I am working as Team Lead Networks delivering HLD, LLD and post-sale deployment to different enterprises. Besides HCIE, I also attained JNCIA, CCNP and VCP-NV Certifications.
2. Do you currently work for a Huawei partner?
Yes, at TechAccess Pakistan.
3. Why did you choose a technical career?
Initially because of my bachelor Degree I got the opportunity to work in IT Industry, later on I developed great interest in Computer Networking and decided to go this way as to me IP networks is full of challenges, opportunities and growth.
4. What do you enjoy the most about your job?
New Day New Challenge sought of work and it’s ever learning process. My job always excites me and keeps me on toes to learn about ever evolving technologies and definitely it pays me well as well.
5. When did you decide that it’s important to have the HCIE Certification and what was your motivation?
As it is well known that Huawei always encourage its partners and customers to grow by providing exciting opportunities. It’s always very challenging to attempt any expert level certification so that motivates me to have a try. HCIE exam testifies both technical and personal skills of IP engineer so it’s important to pass through all those drills to wear HCIE badge so once I got the voucher opportunity, I tried to fully avail it.
6. How did you prepare for the HCIE Certification exams?
https://ilearningx.huawei.com/portal/
HCIE-Routing & Switching V3.0 online training arranged by Huawei
eNSP Simulator
Discussion in Huawei Forums and communities
TCP IP Routing by Todd Lammle
INE Video Lectures on MPLS
7. What was the most challenging part in your opinion?
Network Design related question during an Interview part was very challenging and an eye opener for me.
8. What was the most impressive question that you encountered during the interview or the Lab exam?
LAB Environment:
To perform Traffic Loadbalancing using PBR to manipulate MPLS label based traffic
Interview:
1-Design question that includes OSPF virtual Links and Stub area
2-Rendezvous Point selection criteria in Multicast and in multicast network segregate devices to run IGMPv2 and pim-sm
9. What is the value that this Huawei certification brings to ICT professionals in your opinion?
Huawei certification already covers latest and practical knowledge so once you achieve any of certification, it makes you part of very central circle of IT Professional. In my case, achieving HCIE itself provides me some limelight and helps a lot in career growth. To me, HCIE gives a feeling of pride and realization that there is so much to learn and HCIE certification is just a beginning of it.
10. What professional certifications do you have so far?
JNCIA, CCNP and VCP-NV
11. Can you share with us a moment or a project when you achieved something you are really proud of?
Huawei based Active-Active TIER-3 Datacenter deployment in Public Sector that provides automatic service loadbalancing across two regions with all 20Gbps DDOS protection. Project includes
Active-Active Huawei Cloud regions so we need to design and provision underlay network as well.
12. Can you please share your advice for students and professionals who are interested in taking the HCIE certification exam?
Please prepare yourself mentally to sacrifice your weekday nights and weekends to learn, practice and master HCIE content. First, try to grasp theoretical knowledge from different sources for individual topics both in context of design and troubleshooting. Then do some great labbing for each topic. After that, do brainwork to get greater perspective and purpose of each domain and then go for a practice lab that covers multiple HCIE domain knowledge.
We invite all HCIEs to be part of our new HCIE Experts Program. You can learn more about it here. If you're interested in having a more important role in our Community, check out our Elite Users program. Never stop learning!
