From: Shaun Nicholson (Shaun.Nicholson@xxxxxx)
Date: Tue Jan 23 2001 - 13:22:16 GMT-3
I did 9 months of pure lab work at about 30 - 40 hours a week. I did fail twice
in that time.
That was after my CCNP and written study so all in all about a year of study.
Get the CCIEBootcamp labs they help you a lot (still expensive however). As wel
l as reading all the CCIE prep books from the Cisco press and of course Caslow
BRS for CCIE's.
Its a very deep exam where they can ask you anything they want about IOS12.0 an
d below.
The exam also changes on a regular basis.
In real terms you need to take it once to get any idea about how deep you need
to study.
I don't believe anyone can tell you how deep you need to go as you just don't b
elieve them I know that was one of my problems and once I took the lab I realiz
ed what people had told me was true they can and will ask you many strange and
unusual things that's why the E stands for expert.
I also read the RFC's on DLSW OSPF BGP and PPP as you do need a very very good
understanding of all networking topics and technologies to just understand some
of the questions never mind attempt to build them.
Also remember the NDA that makes it difficult to get exact information as once
you get the CCIE you don't want to give it up and you still want to keep the qu
ality high.
Thanks and good luck
Shaun Nicholson CCIE 6705
Lead Network Engineer
Kaiser Permanente
Silver Spring Data Center
301 680 1462
ashort@wingedwheel.net on 01/23/2001 10:48:00 AM
To: ccielab@groupstudy.com@Internet
cc: (bcc: Shaun Nicholson/MD/KAIPERM)
Subject: Re: how deep.
On Tue, 23 Jan 2001, Mask Of Zorro wrote:
> Somewhere on Cisco's web site it says that you should take 2 years to
> prepare. I think that is a good estimate...
I had 3 years of experience and about 1 year, 4 months of actual test prep
time. I am counting my CCNA,CCDA,CCNP,CCDP studies in that time frame,
as I feel those to be good "ramping up" exercises towards the CCIE.
Of course, for the CCIE, any on the job work where you have your hands on
routers and switches can be considered "prep time".
-- Andrew Short ashort@wingedwheel.net CCIE #6641 Colossians 3:23 "It is rare, but not unprecedented, for a hockey player to face criminal charges for action on the ice." -Associated Press
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