From: Scott Morris (swm@emanon.com)
Date: Wed Mar 07 2007 - 16:17:15 ART
Forget about which specific labs to do, or even which specific vendors to
use... Those details are just that, details. Remember, people passed
before we all existed!
The process for learning is what you are really trying to target here, and
that's what you have to be looking at.
The process varies by person and their style for learning something, but in
the end, it all involves repetition.
What I would suggest is to take any lab(s) and repeat them time and time
again, but you'll be looking at different things each time. And I go over
this with folks in my classes as well, as I'm sure each vendor has their own
style of talking about it.
Pick some challenging lab(s). Quantity doesn't matter since you'll be
repeating things for your process anyway, but hopefully you'll find some
with a variety of tasks to keep things interesting!
1. Do the lab on your own, as best you can without looking up the answers -
This will start challenging you, and perhaps identifying your own weak
points.
2. Look at the answers as you go, or perhaps try to reverse engineer them,
but you don't always retain as much information about WHY.
3. Do the labs again and again until you get more used to things and your
answers match the lab's answers (perhaps looking at answers less and less
each time)
4. Do the labs again... By now you know the answers, so there's no
challenge there, but for each task you do ask yourself "How would I test
this?" using a show or debug command to emulate what the proctors may do
5. Do the labs again... Get better at your show/debugs.
6. Do the labs again... This time, pretend you don't know ANY of the
answers and have to look everything up on the DocCD. While this will be
very time consuming and perhaps irritating since you DO know the answer, it
will be invaluable in getting you used to the DocCD and speeding up your
lookups! (And you'll know when you find the right answer).
7. Do the labs again... This time concentrate on things that may make your
life easier or more efficient in the lab. Alias commands? Notepad and
cut/paste lots? Whatever it is, concentrate on the process.
ALL of these things certainly work together to make your lab day a success.
So don't sell yourself short by simply doing a lab and looking at the
answers and assuming that you will retain that information on lab day. Even
if you are an exceptional person with photographic memory, that only gives
you one solution, not the details behind the solution. Remember that the
real lab exam may be "similar" to many practice labs you did, there will be
differences perhaps to just be irritating.
I would be very surprised if proctors did not have the same practice labs
that everyone else does! :)
HTH,
Scott Morris, CCIE4 (R&S/ISP-Dial/Security/Service Provider) #4713, JNCIE
#153, CISSP, et al.
CCSI/JNCI-M/JNCI-J
IPexpert VP - Curriculum Development
IPexpert Sr. Technical Instructor
smorris@ipexpert.com
http://www.ipexpert.com
PS. Remember... Everyone has a photographic memory, most people just don't
have film.
-----Original Message-----
From: nobody@groupstudy.com [mailto:nobody@groupstudy.com] On Behalf Of
ccie2k7
Sent: Wednesday, March 07, 2007 11:48 AM
To: ccielab@groupstudy.com
Subject: how do you do the labs in workbook
hi,
when we say doing the lab workbook how do you ppl do that !
i mean i see
ppl say i have done labs 1-10 from v 3and labs 3,4,5 from v4
what is the
approch in doing the lab
1 just copy paste the solution
2 read the lab read
the solution and then do the lab yourself
3 just do it like the real exam read
the lab and just use doc cd
thanx
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