From: George Cassels (glcassels3@nc.rr.com)
Date: Tue Jun 28 2005 - 21:05:43 GMT-3
ALCON,
It is finally my turn.I passed today at RTP. So I have seen
several people put together lists of things that helped them that is
based on mostly technology. I am going to do something different here.
Here is my list of general things:
1. Get a good nights sleep the night before.I know this seems
obvious, and a hard thing to do, but even if it takes you going out for
a long walk, a big meal and some beers try to do it.
2. Get up early so you don't have to rush. You are under enough
stress on this day without adding some on yourself by being late.
3. If you a morning routine try and stick to it. IE workout, go
for a run, drink coffee and read the paper
4. Leave your home or hotel with plenty of time to get to the lab.
You can never tell how the traffic is going to be in RTP day to day so
give yourself plenty of time.
Now for a couple technical points.
1. Know all of your options on each technology. I can not tell you
how much this helped me. Being able to go progressively through my
option as they gave requirements and took away options definitely helps.
2. Have a plan. I knew going in what my plan of attack was from
start to finish. From rebooting the routers at lunch which oh by the
way showed me a problem that I had not seen during the morning. To
running my ping tests again after lunch before moving on.
I can not tell you how much of a help the great posts from Tim, Gladson,
John, Chris, Lee, Dennis and others helped me. I know there are people
out here like the Brian's, Scott, Bruce and Bob who are really the
SME's, but before we let them give us an answer try labbing it up and
sending the answer yourself. I learned so much labbing up things that
others posted trying to either figure it out, prove it wrong or just see
how it works. You can not learn technologies unless you try it
yourself.
Also it is human nature to focus on areas you are strong at but it
really pays off to spend more time on your weak areas and just brush up
on areas you are strong in. Before I close someone once told me that if
you are strong on the core areas you will pass. I proved that theory
wrong on my last attempt getting 5 X 100s and still failing because I
did not focus on my weak areas. Again thanks so much gang.
George
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