From: Santi (ccie@texas.net)
Date: Sat Oct 20 2007 - 10:18:59 ART
Darwish,
Do both. For instance, study the switching from the COD, read the
recommended links/books for switching, then do the labs. After this study
your weakness in switching again.
Do the same for each area. Watch OSPF, read OSPF, do the lab in OSPF, read
again and figure out what gaps are missing in your understanding. Do the lab
again, if you need to solidify your understanding. TIME. Putting in the
time. How much time you put in will be a huge factor.
Eventually, you will want mesh the technologies to understand how they work
and affect each other.
I have known people who took a year before attempting the lab, but this is
because of family and/or job obligations. I have also know a couple of guys
who cranked it out in 3-4 months of doing nothing but studying for the CCIE.
But they had the financial resources for this strategy. Because during this
3-4 months, they used IE COD, a boot camp from someone and workbooks from
either Narbik or IE. Keep in mind, both friends had nothing less than a
CCNP and a few years working on the technologies.
My two cents, for what it is worth. This is how I am studying. I have not
taken the lab yet, so it is yet to be seen if this strategy works for me.
Others have done it, so hopefully I can as well.
Hope this helps
Santi
-----Original Message-----
From: nobody@groupstudy.com [mailto:nobody@groupstudy.com] On Behalf Of
shady darwish
Sent: Saturday, October 20, 2007 6:02 AM
To: Cisco certification
Subject: need advice
Is it enough to depend on COD for one of the best vendor in the market and
start lab preparing or do i have to read first the recommand books for ccie
R&S . by the way i do have back ground of routing and switching ccnp level .
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