From: Joseph Brunner (joe@affirmedsystems.com)
Date: Thu Dec 20 2007 - 03:33:23 ART
Scott,
Practice your "take off" a lot. The first 2 hours of the lab are very
crucial. Get off to a good start. Be very used to drawing your topology, or
understanding the topology as you see it. Don't be afraid to not rack up any
points in the first 30-45 minutes. I never did. I used that "clear mind"
time to REALLY REALLY look at my topology, so things would stick out later.
Read the whole test, get comfortable with the idea if you do it in parts, it
isn't that bad. Learn to make smart assumptions, "well gosh, to do that I
have to XXXXXXXX, like in my lab at home, etc."
A really cool thing I'll share is master main areas of the DOC CD on paper,
not on the screen. I printed out key areas to read from. The DOC CD
"configuration guides" and the index pages were my savior when I got lost. I
knew those as well as my name.
Last but not least, no matter what you're doing at like 2pm (3pm in SJ) you
stop, start at the beginning, and go look for easy things you over looked.
You're MUCH MORE LIKELY to get the "summit points" you need in the easy
stuff you probably overlooked one little thing on, that the "stumpers"
you've been scratching all afternoon at.
Quaff a watermelon juice and eat some chicken & curry rice with a pita in SJ
for me! Smile and laugh at lunch a lot. Relax. I've heard you talk on the
phone, you're methodical. You'll pass if you're calm and pick your battles
wisely in there.
-Joe "Anakin"
-----Original Message-----
From: nobody@groupstudy.com [mailto:nobody@groupstudy.com] On Behalf Of Erik
Nixon
Sent: Thursday, December 20, 2007 12:55 AM
To: Scott M Vermillion; 'Colin McNamara'
Cc: ccielab@groupstudy.com
Subject: RE: Final 40 Approach??
Scott,
A buddy of mine is taking his this Friday. He has been doing the core plus
some multi protocol and peripheral technolog labs for the last year.
His last "20" plan up to this coming friday has been:
Each day go through the full 8 hour IEWB lab for each day. Again he has been
at this for a year. I will keep you posted if he indeed is successful in
passing the lab
Thanks
Erik Nixon> From: scott@it-ag.com> To: colin@2cups.com> CC:
ccielab@groupstudy.com> Subject: RE: Final 40 Approach??> Date: Wed, 19 Dec
2007 21:40:57 -0700> > Hi Colin,> > Thanks for sharing your thoughts. I do
feel my core stuff is fairly strong,> as I worked that for months prior to
shifting to multi-protocol/mock labs> (which is part of why my speed sucks
so
badly). But memory is ever an issue> for me, so that's not to say I have
immediate recall of all core stuff I've> touched. > > I'll keep at it...> >
Regards,> > Scott> > > -----Original Message-----> From: Colin McNamara
[mailto:colin@2cups.com] > Sent: Wednesday, December 19, 2007 9:18 PM> To:
Scott M Vermillion> Cc: ccielab@groupstudy.com> Subject: Re: Final 40
Approach??> > By now you hopefully have learned the majority of the core
technology> covered in the lab. I would work on my speed, then work on more
speed.> Do your practice labs over and over again so it just rolls off your>
fingertips while forcing yourself only to use the DocCD.> > my 2 cents,> --
>
Colin McNamara> (858)208-8105> CCIE #18233,RHCE,GCIH > http://www.2cups.com>
>
"The difficult we do immediately, the impossible just takes a little
longer">
> On Wed, 2007-12-19 at 21:04 -0700, Scott M Vermillion wrote:> > OK all,
I'm
not quite down to 40 days 'till lab time but I will be by> > Christmas. Of
course I am interested in general thoughts on how to spend> > these last
weeks, but I am particularly interested to hear thoughts on> > specifics,
such
as when best to do assessor labs. I know I still really,> > really need to
work on speed, so it's too soon right now. But I don't> want> > to wait
until
the point of no return and bomb an assessor. Since there's> > only two of
them, you really want to get as much out of each as possible.> > Also, do
you
bother with reading anything but the DocCD and lab solutions> > guides at
this
late phase? I'm finding myself really, really wanting to> > read Odom's QoS
book again. Also that Router Firewall Security book has> > largely faded
from
memory. I have books I haven't even cracked (and at> > least one more still
in
the shipping pipeline). Etc. > > > > > > > > I will mostly be staying with
my
full-time study approach but will be> > blending in some paid work. Thus,
I'm
probably down to about 30 full> study> > days left, which is why I chose to
fire off this query now. Honestly, I> > would likely slip my date a month at
this point, but I'm already committed> > to about three weeks of travel
immediately following my current lab date,> so> > slipping it a month would
mean slipping it two or three, which I'm not too> > keen on right now. I
have
lots of air miles, etc, so the lab isn't as> > expensive for me as for some.
But I loathe failure in all of its many> > forms, so I want to be deadly
serious about each and every attempt. Any> and> > all thoughts/experiences
welcome!!> > > > > > > > Cheers,> > > > Scott> > > >
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