From: Tom Larus (tlarus@cox.net)
Date: Sun Feb 23 2003 - 12:42:42 GMT-3
Great post!
You are so right about adopting good time-saving configuration techniques.
Using aliases did me a world of good, because I am not a touch typist, and
did not have time to learn to be one. Adopting a technique during practice
where I made each session number match the number of the router saved me a
lot of time and mental energy (and physical energy) in my home lab and
allowed me to learn more in those precious weeks before the lab.
I also found it helpful in my prep to use circles with R1, R2, etc. in them
to designate routers in my diagrams. It was faster to do this and put the
IP addresses outside the circle, than to make big squares and try to fit
lots of info in the squares. Certainly no one should waste time trying to
draw the cylinder shapes that are used in Visio diagrams. You would not
believe how much time my inefficient practices cost me over those mnay
months before I took the NMC-1 class and got some sense talked into me.
Yes, I know a lot of people figured this sort of basic stuff out very early
in the game, but not all.
I really think that some folks might benefit from a basic,
"out-of-the-starting-gate" CCIE Prep course or book. You could get much
(but not all) of the benefit of this sort of course or book by reading this
distribution list for a few weeks, but a lot of people don't even know about
this list, or don't realize how valuable it is. Some get put off by seeing
two or three really basic questions, or one less than perfect response, and
reject the whole list as being beneath them or merely a waste of time.
Tom Larus
----- Original Message -----
From: "jnull" <jnelson@rackspace.com>
To: <ccielab@groupstudy.com>
Sent: Saturday, February 22, 2003 6:44 PM
Subject: Post-fail write up
> Well, I've finally joined the ranks of the fallen.
> I took the lab in SJC on Thursday and learned of my (expected) failure
11AM the next day.
>
> I've found one thing to be true that I doubted: there isn't much point in
violating NDA, I knew what was on the test--well, nearly--and you, if you've
been reading this list and read a few books, or a couple labs, know what is
on the test as well. So, why didn't I pass? Two reasons: one, I spent too
much of the last few weeks doing labs in a 'piece-meal' fashion--twisting
scenarios to unrealistic configurations instead of taking some full good
labs with standard alternatives and getting to the point where I could do it
blind and super-fast; and two, second guessing myself and not utilizing
timesaving configuration practices made me run short of time. I never saw 8
hours go by so fast.
>
> In short: get so you can do the core 75% of what you know will be there in
half a day--very tough; that'll give you the other half to sort out things
you've only done a few times. Then, know your CD, know your time schedule,
and know you can do it.
>
> The test is doable. I've scheduled again for May 21st.
>
> my $.02
> --
> sig=$header
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