From: Erhan Kurt (kurt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx)
Date: Thu May 23 2002 - 04:54:45 GMT-3
Take a look and read quickly whole lab at least to find out sections and
tasks included.
Read a whole section and take detailed notes on before starting to a new
section.
Never Give Up,
Erhan
-----Original Message-----
From: Jay Hennigan [mailto:jay@west.net]
Sent: 23 May}s 2002 Per~embe 08:16
To: Christopher E. Miller
Cc: ccielab@groupstudy.com
Subject: Re: To all who have sat at least once...
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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