From: Howard C. Berkowitz (hcb@gettcomm.com)
Date: Thu Nov 21 2002 - 14:09:01 GMT-3
Good observations.
At 12:39 AM -0800 11/21/02, Stanford Wong wrote:
>Here are some the signs -
>1. Out of the 100-200 post a day, you immediately
>delete all of them except 2 or 3 of them, since the
>topics are so trivial or you have seen the same
>question pop up every 1-2 months.
>2. Core topics like EIGRP, BGP, OSPF, DLSW, ISDN,
>FRAME RELAY,ATM, VOIP, REDISTRIBUTION, spanning tree
>can be done in your sleep, or at least with no
>mistakes or referring to the CD.
>3. All your study time is spent on QOS, Multicast,
>IPSEC,IS-IS, and all the rich IOS features that Cisco
>has to offer.
>4. You don't need prep material, as you are making up
>your own scenarios between you and your study
>partners.
>5. You can see all of the NDA violations by they way
>the authors attempt to hide a real test question.
>6. When RFCs start to make sense as oppose to putting
>you to sleep.
M'gawd...what should writing them do? :-)
Seriously, I'd suggest any CCIE candidate subscribe to the NANOG
(info at www.nanog.org) list and/or the RIPE lists (www.ripe.net) to
get operational perspective. Also scan at least one middling-active
IETF working group mailing list (info at www.ietf.org) so you can see
the process and active discussion that goes into forming an RFC. Some
groups, like MPLS, are very high volume, but OSPF is reasonable, IDR
(the BGP list) is moderately active, etc. ISIS tends to be very
quiet, since there really are a very few key players.
>7. When you realize that all the information regarding
>the CCIE test could be had for free by simply using
>CCO, RFCs, and other freebies on the WWW. But like
>everyone else, you didn't want to do your own
>research, but rather have it placed in a nicely binded
>form called a book.
While I've written any number of books and tutorials, I have to agree
that's mostly what I do, plus lab time, and sometimes private
correspondence with experts.
>
>Hope this helps....
>
>Good luck, and happy journeys...
>
>
>
>
>--- Jennifer Bellucci <Jennifer_bellucci@hotmail.com>
>wrote:
>> Hello...question is directed towards certified IE's.
>> How did you know you were
>> ready for the lab?
>> Is there like a, milestone or something?
>>
>> Please don't answer, when you know everything...I
>> know you still don't know
>> everything, you just know enough.
>>
>> Thanks
>> Jennifer Bellucci
>>
>> Jennifer_bellucci@hotmail.com
>
>
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