Re: please share your lab strategy

Mine is an entirely different approach and
got deviations from normal .. cant tell if this makes me successful or
not in coming three months period of time ;)
As being challenged economically and paying enough for universities i
cant afford racks ....
so, here is how i do that and been successful till now very effectively.

i knew what exactly would be there on a router ? and what commands
would follow what ..

i open up a note pad and start a router / switch in gns3 .. i start
with labs multiprotocol , induvidual technologies what ever and start
implementing the commands in notepad . This has been really tough
initially but now i got used to it ..

when ever i find any new wording or need in search of command i
quickly shoot up terminal in gns3 and navigate to router ? and see
what exactly it is .. now that i know that command i either navigate
to my local webserver for cisco doc dvd image or doc pages in cisco
websites for mpls recent stuff ..

This
has been my strategy through out my learning path and will follow the
same in the lab what ever happens .. in this way i can be very swift
and i know what iam writing .. This makes me really feel better ...

Nothing
frustrated me that big because if dint knew that technology i would
learn that . if not the chances are i already mastered that ..
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 even if it happens to be a ccie lab , using this approach i may learn
few technologies on the fly and implement them . That would be the
worst case and funniest thing which i could ever imagine ...
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good luck

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