From: Andrew Moriarty (amgroupstudy@hotmail.com)
Date: Tue Aug 17 2004 - 19:48:46 GMT-3
Good Luck!
Essentially, you are put into a room with a bunch of tables with computers
on them, given a lab booklet, and told to "Make it work"
The questions are specific, detailed, and usually have only one correct
answer. That is, there is usually only a few where there is more than one
way to do it. Two things that have been said in this forum before are true:
1. For a particular technologie, there may be five ways to answer a
question. To pass the CCIE lab, you must know all six.
2. If you really understand the technologies, the questions are not
ambiguous.
Your biggest enemies in the exam are comprehension, gotcha's, time, and
stress.
You must understand exactly what the question wants you to do. You may have
to ask the procter to clarify issues relating to the question. From personal
experience, if you have not asked the procter at least 20 questions by the
end of the day, you are proably missing something. When you read the
question, it should be immediately apparent to you what issue they are
trying to introduce, and what special commands are necessary to solve it.
Many questions have a gotcha. Practice labs prepare you for this to a
certain extent, but you must be prepared for things that only happen when
things are combined. For example, you may understand frame relay. You may
understand RIP. You may understand access lists. You may understand IRDP.
You may understand NAT. What happens when you are trying to configure IRDP
on a frame relay interface with RIP running and an access list that is also
doing NAT? The combination may produce surprising results.
Time is sort of your enemy. You must be able to configure all basic configs
from memory, in two or three hours. For your practice labs, you should be
able to configure all switching, RIP, OSPF, EIGRP, IS-IS, BGP, and ISDN
answers without resorting to any book searching in under three hours. There
is more than enough time to finish the lab, if you know exactly what you are
doing.
Strees for me makes me tired. I was inredibly beat by 2:00 in the
afternnoon, and still had questions to answer and things to look up. Make
sure you get lots of sleep, a good breakfast, a light lunch, and as many
legal stimulants (chocolate, coca-cola, whatever) as you need. Don't count
on catching a flight out right after the exam. Count on having one beer in
the bar and falling asleep at 7:00.
Practice labs are good- you should also create free form labs that bring
together different technologies "Just for the heck of it". Practice Practice
Practice.
Once again, good luck!
am
>From: "Dean Penebacker" <dean@penebacker.com>
>Reply-To: "Dean Penebacker" <dean@penebacker.com>
>To: <ccielab@groupstudy.com>
>Subject: CCIE lab day
>Date: Mon, 16 Aug 2004 20:15:05 -1000
>
>Can anyone just give me some idea's on what's going to happen the day of
>the
>test and how is the test actually presented to you. I have been doing the
>IPExpert labs for about 2 months now and I'm signed up for Nov. I kind of
>just
>want to prepare myself mentally. Thanks.
>
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