From: Narbik Kocharians (narbikk@gmail.com)
Date: Fri Dec 21 2007 - 14:48:36 ART
She is the stiffest CCIE you have ever met.
On Dec 21, 2007 8:26 AM, Chris Riling <criling@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > -----
> >
> > Eric Phillips
> > mailto:ephillips@ltiit.com<ephillips@ltiit.com>
> >
> > Network Consultant II
> >
> >
> >
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> >
> >
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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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> >
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-- Narbik Kocharians CCIE# 12410 (R&S, SP, Security) CCSI# 30832 www.MicronicsTraining.com Sr. Technical Instructor www.Net-WorkBooks.com
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