From: Neil Moore (neil@droopy.com)
Date: Sat May 06 2006 - 02:15:36 ART
Roberto,
What worked for me was creating my own labs based off the vendor's lab books I purchased, And I have had many of them, and merging them with parts I scored low on in the lab.
I am dating myself a little bit on lab books, but here is an example.
For my Security and SP lab .. I would take the R&S lab book and re-write the labs to a technology I was weak in. For me this included droping the cat 5500's and token-ring stuff and replacing it with 3550's and whatever was on the blueprint. I would end up with a lab that I had about 50% of the answers for based off the Vendors solution guide. For my Voice run I bought current lab books and merged what I was weak into the 8 hour labs. I did it one technology at a time until I would understand what was right/wrong only from show and/or debug commands.
When I started doing it this way.. I would take a whole week to finish a lab .. I would then package it up like a Lab prep vendor would (diagram/solution show commands etc) and erase the whole lab back to a base install and run the lab again to make sure I understood the tasks and the output if it was right/wrong in the configs. Then compare the end configs/etc with the previous runs looking for gaps in my logic. Once I had that down.. I would add in the next component I was weak in.
-Neil Moore CCIE #10044 (R&S,Security,SP,Voice)
Roberto Fernandez wrote:
> Friends,
>
> Yesterday I failed at my second try. Even when I'm sure I was far better
> prepared than at my first try, my score was poorer. Now I'm trying to re
> think the whole thing, trying to find what to do to improve my chances
> for the next time.
>
> The Workbook (one of the majors) I used to prepare, definitely gave me
> solid knowledge on the technologies, which I use every day on my job,
> but the tests proved to be a different thing. The labs on the Workbook
> are structured and logic, but the lab tests are different.
>
> In terms of rounding up my knowledge and experience I'd like to have
> some inputs based on the experience of the ones who have succeeded. What
> is the missing link, (or whole chain for that matter...)
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Roberto
>
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