From: Scott Morris (swm@emanon.com)
Date: Mon Jun 14 2004 - 09:57:47 GMT-3
There are good points leaning either direction, you have to choose which
best fits your personality and learning style!
The bootcamps are a good challenge where you can review things you should
mostly already know about, but pick up little tidbits and configuration
pieces along the way or "thought processes" that you may not have considered
when a lab is worded in a particular fashion.
There are many nuances to the CCIE lab, and a bootcamp can draw upon the
experience of the instructor to convey these. With that in mind, choosing
the bootcamp is another one of those personal decisions! Certainly review
the experience of the instructor from both a "ccie lab" point of view, as
well as other educational experience. If the best technician in the world
can't formulate sentences or explain things to those who don't understand,
it doesn't do much good!
The bootcamp should offer both instruction/lecture as well sa some intense
lab time as well. Most bootcamps will offer a full-day lab in addition to
the "parts" corresponding to lecture some days. This will hopefully take
the place of a "real" lab minus some of the pressure involved and still give
you a good sense of where you stand or what areas you still need to work on.
On the other hand, taking the lab two more times gives a good sense
intensity to what's really happening and what really is there. But the
answer lies within your own head. How prepared are you now? I'm assuming
since you said "extra" lab attempts that you have taken the lab once
already. How close were you? Was it just dumb luck that things didn't work
right, or were there gaps you identified? Was the score report you received
in line with what you thought it would be?
If that's the case, then you may be close enough in your understanding of
the lab and technologies that taking the lab up to two times (hoping only
for one!) is the better path!
I hope this helps you decide which path is best for you! While gathering
opinions from other people (which is valuable), do note that their
experiences and relative "closeness" to passing the lab may be distinctly
different than yours!
Scott Morris, CCIE4 (R&S/ISP-Dial/Security/Service Provider) #4713, CISSP,
JNCIP, et al.
IPExpert CCIE Program Manager
IPExpert Sr. Technical Instructor
swm@emanon.com/smorris@ipexpert.net
http://www.ipexpert.net
-----Original Message-----
From: nobody@groupstudy.com [mailto:nobody@groupstudy.com] On Behalf Of
Tomasz Siwiarek
Sent: Monday, June 14, 2004 8:06 AM
To: ccielab@groupstudy.com
Subject: 1 bootcamp or 2 extra lab attempts?
Hi,
I was told I have option: 1 bootcamp or 2 extra lab attempts.
What should I opt for? If bootcamp - which one, which trainer?
Please help me with that "happy trouble".
Thanks,
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