From: Omer Ansari (omer@ansari.com)
Date: Sun Sep 08 2002 - 08:17:42 GMT-3
Congratulations Colin on your achievement. Your contribution to this alias
has been valuable, and we hope you can still find time and help people out
the way you have been doing, even after your ccie.
thanks!
Omer
On Sun, 8 Sep 2002, Colin Barber wrote:
> There has been a problem with my groupstudy access over the last 9 days but
> hopefully everything is working now.
>
> I took my second lab attempt in Brussels on Monday 2nd September. Recently
> there seems to have been a large number of people gaining their numbers and
> unfortunately, for anybody wishing that the numbers would stop going up so
> quickly, I haven't slowed them down having been awarded #10086.
>
> It took me 4.5 hours to get home and my result was waiting for me. Looking
> at the time when my email was received my result was available 40 minutes
> after the lab finished. In fact not taking into account the 1 hour time
> difference between the UK and central Europe I received my result 20 minutes
> before I finished!
>
> I set myself two targets this year after passing the written exam at the end
> of December 2001. The first one was to pass the lab this year and the second
> was to get a number under 10000. Well I achieved the main one and missed out
> on the second by a few weeks.
>
> On my route to achieving my number I went through the Cisco Career
> certifications:
> 6/2000 CCNA
> 12/2000 CCDA
> 5/2001 640-504
> 6/2001 640-505
> 9/2001 640-503
> 9/2001 640-506 and CCNP
> 11/2001 CCDP
> 12/2001 CCIE written
> 9/2002 CCIE lab
>
> I think that the career certifications help in studying for the CCIE,
> certainly the written exam, however you also realise that what you learnt
> for the CCNP is not a in-depth as you thought at the time.
>
>
> I have a few bits of advise for people attempting the lab, most of which has
> been posted before:
>
> Make sure you have read the document CD and use it all the time during
> studying. There is a lot of information contained on that CD, if you have
> seen the hard copy version you will know what I mean, and therefore do not
> underestimate the time required to read it all.
>
> Read as many different books as possible. Most of them contain duplicate
> information and the last books you read will probably contain 99% of
> information that you already know, however even if you learn just one or two
> new commands or a new way of looking at something then it has been worth
> reading that book. I stuck mainly with the Cisco Press books.
>
> Also use CCO for your studying. There is an enormous amount of information
> there and it's free.
>
> During the lab use your lunch break. 5 or 10 minutes before lunch look and
> the next couple of questions. You can then use your time to start to solve
> those questions. If you just go to lunch thinking about your current
> question you may solve that in 5 minutes and then you just sit there for 25
> minutes wanting to get back into the lab.
>
> Don't worry about aliases. If you have done enough studying then you will be
> typing in common commands quickly enough. If you read the questions fully,
> understand what is required and know how to implement it then you will have
> more than enough time. I would think most people that pass would have 1 to 2
> hours at the end of the exam to go back and check your work. Saving 0.3s
> typing 'si' instead of 'sho ip rou' is not going to give you enough time if
> you don't understand the question or know the commands to configure it.
>
> If you get stuck on a question and the next question does not rely on it
> then move on as quickly as possible. You can always come back to it later.
> This is where you lose time. You have the points value for the questions and
> therefore you can gauge the amount of time you should be spending on it.
> Finish the rest of the lab and come back to any questions you haven't
> completed and use the CD if needed.
>
> Save your configs frequently
>
> Ask the proctors questions. They are good guys and will help you as much as
> the are allowed.
>
>
>
> Regards,
> Colin
>
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