From: Joel W. Ekis (jekis@xxxxxxxxx)
Date: Fri Jun 30 2000 - 09:24:25 GMT-3
>
>Please UNDERSTAND WHAT Cisco wants from us - i.e. CCIE's
>The scenarios are UNREAL - i.e you'll never see the problems like these at
>the labs
>in real world.
Historically, some of the scenarios came from actual TAC cases. I have no idea
if that is still true, but in my time as a consultant, I saw some pretty freak
y stuff. Some of it would have been killer CCIE lab questions.
>You really have to be smart and be able to adapt quickly.
>TRUST ME - THERE's NO TIME TO SEARCH CD AT THE LAB TIME
My experiences are only US based, but that wasn't a problem. I had a 2 hour cu
shion in day 1, 1 hour in day 2 and only used 35 min in troubleshooting. I cou
ld have spend a lot of time searching, but I didn't need to. Why? I had the c
ore technologies down cold. Lots of rack time, so that I could hammer the obvi
ous, fast. Used Caslow's 'Spot the Issues' technique. And...
>YOU HAVE TO KNOW WHAT YOU NEED To FIND.
>Brian pointed that this DOC CD is excellent.
>Of course he's right.
I memorized WHERE to find what I needed on the Doc CD. I spend hours of practi
ce on the CD just navigating to sections I knew would be useful on the Lab. Ne
ed IP routing stuff; click, click, click, I'm there. Need a IPX filter; click,
click, click, I'm there.
Overall, I used the CD on day 1 and day 2. I don't feel that it impacted me at
all. But, my PC wasn't messed up by the previous user, was reasonably quick,
etc.
>BUT YOU'LL HAVE NO TIME TO EXPLORE THAT EXCELLENCE AT ALL!!!!
>As I was told by my proctor - "You're the expert - just prove that"
>Spend your time to know ALL on that CD...
>I got that - sure YOU can do that as well...
Joel
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