From: Scott Morris (smorris@ipexpert.com)
Date: Thu Dec 20 2007 - 04:22:16 ART
Focus on things you've already done (labs). Just do them "differently".
Speed comes with practice, you can't "work on" speed. You can work on
process though. that's the big thing.
Take some labs you already know the answers to and do them again. These
should be labs that you don't need to look back at the answer guide very
much for. Do them and pretend you're an idiot. Look EVERYTHING up on the
DocCD. Prove it. This will be a REALLY slow way to do the labs, but a very
valuable one.
With the DocCD, if you already know the right answer, you will know when you
find it. But the process of finding it will improve with practice.
The "prove it" part comes from show/debug commands. This will also give you
insight into how grading is done. This should be part of your process.
After you've done that a little while, do the labs some more, but now work
on process. Speed from typing shortcuts. Speed from looking at what alias
commmands may help you more than others. Speed from not doing "tab" and "?"
all the time (e.g. trust yourself). Speed from using notepad to cut/paste
something entered multiple times in the exact same or similar fashion.
That's the stuff that will get you through the lab. As for reading books
and stuff, you've been on here a while, you've been around this stuff a
while as well. If you don't already know it, chances are you are going to
work a lot to retain a little extra. Is that worthwhile, or is the ability
to look it up worthwhile?
Process, my friend, process.... Even if you bomb an assessor lab, you gain
insight to their wording and "kinda" grading. That is more valuable than
your performance on it. Process.
Cheers,
Scott Morris, CCIE4 (R&S/ISP-Dial/Security/Service Provider) #4713, JNCIE-M
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-----Original Message-----
From: nobody@groupstudy.com [mailto:nobody@groupstudy.com] On Behalf Of
Scott M Vermillion
Sent: Wednesday, December 19, 2007 11:05 PM
To: ccielab@groupstudy.com
Subject: Final 40 Approach??
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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