From: Gary Duncanson (gary.duncanson@googlemail.com)
Date: Wed Sep 12 2007 - 12:33:49 ART
Herbert,
I agree configurations are often very different in the *real world*. In many
cases simpler. That said I do find field experience leading to better
understanding of the technologies is of benefit to your lab preparation. One
does need to be wary of the dependencies (land mines/traps) lurking in
practice labs that you may not encounter in some production environments
though. I suppose this is where making assumptions based on your live
experience can be dangerous.
Greg is also correct that practice is the best preparation either in field
or on practice labs.
Your experience in the industry is very similar to mine. I agree 10 years is
quite a short time.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Herbert Maosa" <asawilunda@googlemail.com>
To: "Ben Holko" <ben.holko@datacom.com.au>
Cc: <ccielab@groupstudy.com>
Sent: Wednesday, September 12, 2007 3:07 PM
Subject: Re: Am I overthinking things?
>I think it is quite interesting that you are finding this to have such a
>big
> bearing to real life. My own experience with both the Work Book Scenarios
> and the real exam is that they depart a lot from real world practices and
> requirements. I have been in the networking Industry for only a short time
> (about 10 years only ) butI have worked exclusively with Cisco
> Technologies for the past 7 years from simple to complex environments.
>
> Yet the only match I find is in the technologies, but the way I have seen
> them applied in real world is different from the way the Lab tested me.
>
> This reminds me of the day of my exam .... I was quite fixed by one
> specific
> question because my mind was still thinking in real life terms. When I
> went
> to the proctor to ask for clarification, he was spot on to read my mind
> and
> his answer to me was " to satisfy this requirement, I would suggest you
> forget real world best practices ", and there I got my answer on how to *
> correctly* ( in real world this woulbe incorrectly ) configure...
>
> But well, you are finding direct application to real world so perhaps you
> have quite unique requirements in your environment.
>
> my 2 pence worth
>
> Herbert.
>
>
>
> On 9/12/07, Ben Holko <ben.holko@datacom.com.au> wrote:
>>
>> Hey all,
>>
>> I'm thinking that I may be over analysing the practice labs. I've done
>> the
>> first 7 IE labs from WB II, and usually score around 70-80. Have just
>> completed lab 7 (difficulty 9) and scored 88.
>>
>> This reinforces to me that the best preperation weapon in the CCIE
>> assault
>> is experience, as most of what was in lab 7 is things I have had direct
>> experience with.
>>
>> The areas I am scoring lowest in are the technologie which I have had the
>> least real-world experience with.
>>
>> Anyone else finding this in their preperations? (vendor neutral!)
>>
>>
>>
>> Ben
>>
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> hm
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