From: Ramcharan, Vijay A (vijay.ramcharan@verizonbusiness.com)
Date: Thu Oct 09 2008 - 15:04:19 ART
Heh, heh, that's a good one but it's unfortunately true (for me anyway
and apparently yourself as well) if you don't do the stuff day to day or
at least frequently. I was so crammed full of stuff prior to the lab
exam that a couple of weeks after passing it all seemed to evaporate.
Some people can apparently retain things they learn, long-term without
actually putting it to use. For me, if I cannot relate something I learn
to something I do in a real-life situation (lab does not count as
real-life situation for me), it goes away fairly quickly.
Right after the lab exam, I was an idiot about EIGRP and OSPF and
couldn't remember simple and quite basic facts about their operation. IP
subnetting was another kicker. BGP stuck with me even though I had never
at the time encountered it in real-life. After the lab exam, I had to go
back and read my written exam guide and lab study notes to make sense of
a lot of things in order to at least present an air of coherency during
job interviews. Don't get me wrong. It's not that I couldn't do things,
I just couldn't recall information unless I was sitting at a console.
It's almost 4 years later and some of it has stuck (what I have been
able to use), some of it is gone; at least until I start studying again.
IS-IS is gone, IPv6 is mostly gone, never had QoS to begin with, most
multicast gone as well. Ah well, it's going to be fun relearning some or
all of these for SP.
Vijay Ramcharan
-----Original Message-----
From: nobody@groupstudy.com [mailto:nobody@groupstudy.com] On Behalf Of
reis.henrique@gmail.com
Sent: October 09, 2008 13:27
To: ccielab@groupstudy.com
Subject: How to keep CCIE
Hi Guys,
Maybe this could be a stupid question but I have to ask it.
After you got your number how do you keep all stuff that you studied and
learned, I say because if you don't use for example Multicast, I don't
use it
in my company today so in sometime I can forgot it, the same for QoS I
don't
use today either.
I'll starting to study for SP track, so for a while I will keep my
acknowledgement but and after, what do you do??
Thanks in advanced,
Henrique Reis
CCIE #22233
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