From: Jay Hennigan (jay@xxxxxxxx)
Date: Thu May 23 2002 - 02:15:32 GMT-3
On Wed, 22 May 2002, Christopher E. Miller wrote:
> Is there any real advantage to reading through the entire test first????
IMHO, yes. In no particular order:
Evaluate point values vs. your knowledge. You can be sure that there
will be the core technologies, wrinkles on the core technologies, and
a zinger or two out of left field. Realize what the zingers are at
the outset and evaluate whether to do everything in order or save some
items until later. This leads to another reason...
Learn dependencies. What parts of the test depend on other parts being
correctly configured? Plan this out to manage your time better. Also,
a later requirement may give a hint as to how to best configure an earlier
one.
Reading the whole test gives you an idea of your weak points and those
items you're unsure about. If you have to go to the Doc CD, knowing all
of the things you're looking for at once may shorten your search time.
If one section requires reconfiguring or retesting something from a
previous section, having read the entire test you can bundle them into
a single configure/test scenario.
Your "style" may be to do things in a certain order, and knowing all of
the requirements ahead of time might help you. For example, if you
are in the habit of configuring both IP and IPX addressing per interface
rather than doing all of the IP and then going back to IPX, reading the
whole test may be of value to you.
It can be a confidence builder, if you're prepared you can say to yourself,
"I can do this!"
Note that I only have experience with the two-day test. You have the
added advantage of seeing the entire exam at the outset. While this makes
it a longer read, I'd still consider it a good strategy.
-- Jay Hennigan - CCIE #7880 - Network Administration - jay@west.net NetLojix Communications, Inc. - http://www.netlojix.com/ WestNet: Connecting you to the planet. 805 884-6323
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