From: Chris Riling (criling@gmail.com)
Date: Fri Dec 21 2007 - 13:26:51 ART
Geez, Narbik's grandmother is a wealth of knowledge isn't she?
Chris
On 12/21/07, Eric Phillips <eric@phillips.tc> wrote:
>
> Hey Scott,
>
> I am down near my 40-days as well. I am taking my first shot at the lab
> on
> February 14th in RTP. Being newly married, I have quite the understanding
> wife. :) When and where is your lab?
>
> I intensified my CCIE studies about six months ago, and took every piece
> of
> training material I have and put each chapter, video, or lab under the lab
> blueprint. I then started studying one major topic at a time. During and
> after each topic I spent a considerable amount of time creating my own
> labs
> to test every variation or setting of the commands. I then made the labs
> build on top of each other. For example, I started studying IGPs and QOS,
> then by the time I was studying BGP I would make sure to build QOS, RIP,
> EIGRP, and OSPF into the same lab.
>
> I have two more days of IPv6 studying, and I will be done with my
> "academic"
> studying of the major topics. I then plan on spending a week refreshing
> my
> understanding of the non-core topics such as SNMP, RMON, NTP,
> etc. Luckily,
> I have extensive real-world experience with most of the non-core topics,
> but
> I still need to explore the "odd" features of each.
>
> I now plan on working on the full labs and taking two accessor labs. I
> bought one of the IE graded labs for January 21st when they were on sale,
> and I will do one Cisco assessor lab, but I am undecided on exactly when
> to
> do that.
>
> I think the most valuable part of my studying has been creating my own
> labs. I feel that to create a lab that completely tests a subject I
> needed
> to thoroughly understand the technology and every intricacy about it. I
> have also found that the labs I built were substantially more difficult
> then
> the vendor-created labs. I would imagine the difficulty stems from
> knowing
> how to exploit my own weaknesses, and the labs focused on the difficult
> parts of the technology. Did anyone else create their own draft-quality
> labs while studying? I am curious if you all agree that to make a lab
> requires a complete understanding of the technology, not just a
> syntax-memory of the commands.
>
>
>
>
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> On 12/19/07, Scott M Vermillion <scott@it-ag.com> 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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