From: Andy McLaughlin (andy@andymcl.com)
Date: Fri Apr 02 2004 - 10:25:54 GMT-3
Here is a resend of my recommendations to pass the lab. The server stripped
off the HTML formating of the last e-mail. Here it is in plain text.
I also want to say "Thank You!" to the Proctors I had on every attempt;
Howard and Robin. They are good people. I will probably see them again for
the CCIE Security. :-) We can trade more stories at lunch.
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Andy's recipe for success on the CCIE lab:
1) No shortcuts. (i.e. cheating, braindumps)
2) Learn all that you can about as many technologies as you can. You never
know what will come in handy.
3) Read and know (at minimum): TCP Routing IP vol I and II by Doyle, the
OSPF and BGP Command and Configuration Handbooks by Parkhurst.
4) LOTS of hands on practice. I bought the equipment, but because I travel
nationally for work so frequently I hardly used it. CyscoExpert gave me all
of the hands on time that I needed and then some. I highly recommend them.
I would not have passed without their help.
5) Unless your lab is totally IPed wrong, any weirdness encountered is
probably designed into your test. So find the problem, find a solution, and
move on. Now that I look back I am sure Howard and Robin where getting a
good chuckle when I would come up to them saying, "There is some thing wrong
with X and I do not think it is a configuration issue..." or something
similar. ;-)
6) Here is your mantra for the lab exam (notice typing things in is only
25%): Say it to yourself and do it when studying until it is second nature.
-Read it! <--read the section more than once -maybe to
yourself
-Understand it! <--understand what they want before your fingers move
-Do it! <--let the fingers fly
-Check it!! <--check multiple ways that you have fulfilled all
requirements (and not broken others) If you do not check, you will not pass.
7) PING! PING! Your best friend. Just because routing tables show routes,
it does not mean traffic flows from point A to point B right.Use this tcl
script and copy and paste it into all routers after igp is complete, other
major changes have been made, before and after lunch, and of course after
you think you are done. It is supper fast so long as everything is working.
tclsh
foreach PING {
1.1.1.1
2.2.2.2
3.3.3.3
} {ping $PING}
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