From: ymadon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Tue Nov 30 1999 - 01:44:30 GMT-3
I passed my CCIE Lab exam two weeks ago .I do wish to share some of m
y
experiences and pass on some of the things that helped me along the way. I als
o
wish to thank all the people who contribute to this list.
Firstly the study material:
Bridges, Routers and Switches for CCIEs: by Andrew Bruce Caslow
In my opinion this book is almost like a de-facto text book for the exam , i
t
clearly identifies the topics that are really important and key issues withi
n
those topics.
I can't say I read the book cover to cover, but I use the book extensively.
CCIE Professional Development, Routing TCP/IP Vol 1: by Jeff Doyle
I used this book particularly for OSPF and protocol redistribution , but it i
s
an excellent book for all IP IGPs. It has plenty of very relevant examples an
d
scenarios.
Internet Routing Architectures :by Bassam Halabi
This is super book for BGP, and almost a must read, Chapters 10,11 have plent
y
of examples some of them are very relevant.
Design Guides
I used quite a few of the design guides available on CCO, the BGP design guid
e
on the CD is excellent and extremely useful.
Cisco CD
The search engine on the Cisco CD is fairly ordinary and I always end u
p
spending a lot of time when I search for a particular topic.
It is imperative to know exactly where the important topics are located on th
e
CD.
You cannot afford to use the search engine more too many times, it takes a lo
t
of time and it breaks your concentration.
Preparation
I guess I'm stating the obvious , but you really need to be an expert in I
P
routing.
I spent about 60% of my preparation time on BGP and OSPF in an NBMA enviroment
.
I think that really helped me,
it gave me the confidence to get off to a really good start.
About 20% of my time on IPX, Apple Talk, ISDN and DLSW .
20% on every thing else.
The exam
I guess the most important thing about the exam is to remain cool and focused
,
the question needs to be read very carefully .
Things are not always what they seem to be .
Save your configs. Believe it or not , The whole building had a massive powe
r
outage on my second day, and I lost quite a bit of configuration
Good Luck! The exam is hard but not impossible.
Regards
Yezdi Madon
CCIE # 5311
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