From: Ben Holko (ben.holko@datacom.com.au)
Date: Thu Dec 20 2007 - 08:38:32 ART
Hey Scott,
I am down to 48 days, and tomorrow is my last day at my job of over 7.5 years. Thus the timing has worked out great for me, as I am not starting my new job until I return from my lab date of Feb 6th in Tokyo. Funny thing is I am going into an IT Exec role where I won't be using my IE as much as I do the skills now!
Anyway, my plan from here on in is to do all 20 IE labs again through Jan weekdays, and spend the rest of the time reading the QOS and multicast books and the Doc CD.
I may take an assesor lab, but I think it may not be worth it, I have already paid for lab, and the airfares etc, so I'm pot committed! However as General Morris said, it's probably worth it just to get an insight into Cisco's wording, as this will be my first attempt.
good luck to us all, and god bless Dynamips ;)
Ben
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From: nobody@groupstudy.com on behalf of Scott M Vermillion
Sent: Thu 20/12/2007 3:04 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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