From: Joseph Brunner (joe@affirmedsystems.com)
Date: Sat May 17 2008 - 23:31:53 ART
Most of us have been there and done that... I passed my lab with about 45
minutes sleep the night before...
I heard from many guys they passed it on no sleep at all.
In my attempts, once I slept a full 8 hours, but I failed by a few points
that day. So, it takes more than sleep ;)
So, try LUNESTA and a scotch before bed. Go to bed at 7pm the latest with
that "CIA Secret Prison flight cocktail". You want to wake up at like 4am,
so your "afternoon" will be the 9am lab. When you wake up get a V-8 drink.
You'll need the sodium and Potassium to keep those neurons firing on the cli
all day long...
I have my "2 day out diet" that worked for me; oatmeal, GNC organic coconut
fat (pure brain food!), and lots of Omega-3 fish oil tabs;
;)
Considering what jokers waste on bootcamps consider $1,400 a pair of golf
drivers... don't think Tiger has never broken a few drivers ;)
-Joe
#19366
-----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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