From: Eduardo Rossettini (Eduardo.Rossettini@telecom.co.nz)
Date: Wed Jun 18 2008 - 04:41:06 ART
Thanks Alexei.
I'm far away from being a genius and I know the written exam does not
mean anything. I counted it as step 0.
I just want to take the right approach since the beginning and also do
not want to leave any gaps when moving on to the technology labs.
Eduardo
-----Original Message-----
From: Alexei Monastyrnyi [mailto:alexeim@orcsoftware.com]
Sent: Wednesday, 18 June 2008 07:30
To: Eduardo Rossettini
Cc: ccielab@groupstudy.com
Subject: Re: First lab preparation steps
Eduardo,
it all depends on your subject matter experience, how much time you can
afford for daily studies, how good you are at studies etc. And since
CCIE R/S subject matter is quite wide, you'd probably better have a slow
start.
Back in 2004 IP Expert released quite a bunch of small labs per subject
(OSPF, EIGRP, FR etc), they released it for free for one month, one
could also print them from PDFs. That was a great start to me.
Don't be too self-confident, scoring high in pre-qualification test
doesn't buy you any safe pass for the lab. Touch advanced topics on LAN
switching, dive into routing and you'll see it for yourself.
Along your CCIE journey, once getting into that self-confidence mood,
take one of CheckIT or MOC labs, you'll see where you are.
But you may as well be a genius, though those are few and far between
nowadays :-), then just ignore my words above.
Good luck,
A.
Eduardo Rossettini said the following on 6/18/2008 6:58 AM:
> Hi guys,
>
> I have just joined the list and was wondering if some of you could
point
> me out to the right direction.
>
> I passed last week on the written exam (R/S) with 89% score and
started
> with my lab preparation over the last few days. I started with LAN
> switching and have done some labs using cisco docs and scenarios from
> Cisco Press - Lan Switching book, but I feel like I'm losing my time
> because I can do 95% of the configs straight away on those simple
> scenarios.
>
> My first plan was read, read and read, do some labs from the scenarios
> on the book/cisco docs for every single technology. But now I'm
feeling
> I'm not learning anything.
>
> Should I move on and start doing some technology labs from a ccie
vendor
> out there to find out my technology gaps or stick to the preparation
> books until having strong confidence in any single technology?
>
> Thanks in advance
>
> Eduardo
>
>
>
This archive was generated by hypermail 2.1.4 : Tue Jul 01 2008 - 06:23:22 ART