From: Josh Covarrubias (shmokin@gmail.com)
Date: Sat May 17 2008 - 17:55:42 ART
Thanks for sharing your experience Larry. $1400 boot camp... hilarious!
What is your study strat now after knowing better what you're up against?
More mock labs, more doc cd? Focus on certain areas only? Wish the very
best in your CCIE pursuit.
regards,
Josh
On Fri, May 16, 2008 at 10:01 AM, Scott Morris <swm@emanon.com> wrote:
> Sounds like you picked up on the psychology portion of the lab exam pretty
> well there! Best of luck in your next (last?) attempt! :)
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> HTH,
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: nobody@groupstudy.com [mailto:nobody@groupstudy.com] On Behalf Of
> Larry
> Sent: Friday, May 16, 2008 11:12 AM
> To: ccielab@groupstudy.com
> Subject: 1st Attempt
>
> Hey everyone, wanted to share my experience with you in hops of helping you
> attain this cert. I took my first attempt yesterday and based on that
> subject you know the outcome. I knew I had some weak areas and I also did
> not feel ready to take it (but do we ever??). But i had passed 3 mock labs
> and figured a $1400 bootcamp would be nice.
>
> Anyway I made a HUGE mistake on the switching section right off the bat
> that
> cost me almost 2 hours when all said and done. This I equate to nerves, an
> hour of sleep the night before and thinking the CCIE man was out to get me.
> Don't make it harder than it really is....
>
> The test overall was not as hard as I had expected but as Cisco will tell
> you make sure you read the whole lab first. Ex, (not my lab but just
> something I can think of) If you think your IGP is intended to flow one way
> when redistributing, make sure you know how BGP or Multicast is going to be
> implemented and the restrictions they put on each. Also, like the Brians
> will tell you over and over 1 section/question is not mutually exclusive.
> This means that you MUST have time to go back through the exam just in case
> there is something in there that breaks a previous requirement or worse is
> a
> pre-requirement for a future. There could be one section that if done
> incorrectly could wipe out another whole section. Although I finished and
> felt good about it, due to the mistakes I made up front I did not have time
> to verify.
>
> A couple of recommendations:
>
> 1. Do labs from different vendors!! I am doing Internetwork Expert labs and
> they are great, the material will get you the knowledge you need to pass.
> But when you are use to a single source for you layouts, verbiage and
> solutions you get your brain programmed to that way. You can get sample
> labs
> from all the vendors which will give you another view of how things can be
> worded/layedout.
>
> 2. If you have your own rack, move the cables around covering your eyes. If
> you use dynamips edit your net files to make the connections a bit
> different. This will give you experience mapping your topology out via show
> cdp neigh and also help with #1.
>
> 3. Get sleep the night before. The most simple tasks became
> uncomprehendable
> to me although I had done them 100 times. I am not really sure how to
> recommend you do this especially if you are a stress monster like me but it
> is important.
>
> 4. Don't make this out to be Cisco against you. Pay attention to detail and
> know your technology but don't think every question is a trick or has
> hidden
> meaning.
>
> hope that helps someone.... I am taking a week long vacation and then will
> give it another try!
>
> -larry
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