From: Colin McNamara (Colin@2cups.com)
Date: Sat Jul 19 2008 - 19:51:38 ART
I agree, it is just like taking a 1400 dollar lunch (980 in this case).
I am on the same track as Ronnie, hitting up the book list. Though the
pace is looking like it requires a book every 4 days....
-- Colin McNamara (858)208-8105 CCIE #18233,RHCE,GCIH http://www.colinmcnamara.com http://www.linkedin.com/in/colinmcnamara"The difficult we do immediately, the impossible just takes a little longer"
Ronnie Angello wrote: > Yeah, I'm with you guys. I guess I'm pretty much paying for the > experience. Maybe we can get together for drinks afterwards and kill > the rest of our weak brain cells. > > On a more serious note though, I'm trying to read through all of the > books on the list, focusing just on the parts that relate to L3 > design. I'm also trying to determine all of the correct answers on > the demo and break them down to understand the thought process there. > > I guess there's not much more that I can do... > > Ronnie > > On Sat, Jul 19, 2008 at 3:23 PM, Marko Milivojevic <markom@markom.info> wrote: > >> Good point you make about study. >> >> This appears to be very tricky exam to prepare for, especially given >> no experience about delivery. Reading list is deceptively short and >> biased towards MPLS >> (https://cisco.hosted.jivesoftware.com/docs/DOC-2462), blueprint could >> be more vague only if it were writen in Japanese >> (https://cisco.hosted.jivesoftware.com/docs/DOC-2461) and exam >> developers are proud of making "an evil exam" (Russ). Adding to that, >> demo exam is pretty inconsistent >> (https://cisco.hosted.jivesoftware.com/docs/DOC-2427). >> >> At this point I'm with Scott - I am more preparing to pay $980 to be >> abused than I'm studying for the actual exam. I expect pass rate to be >> extremely low and I would be surprised to see more than few CCDE's in >> October - if any. The high score on demo in Orlando was 44%! I will >> read few books from the reading list that I haven't already, but >> that's just about it. >> >> Perhaps I should take up sudoku or some other mental excercise... How >> does one improve analytical skills anyway? ;-) >> >> -- >> Marko >> CCIE #18427 >> >> >> _______________________________________________________________________ >> Subscription information may be found at: >> http://www.groupstudy.com/list/CCIELab.html
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