RE: Time saving tips for during LAB [Time Management]

Marko,

What I didn't mention is that I really only used a few of the aliases on regular basis. I guess I don't understand how typing 4 or 3 letters is less efficient or demonstrates less knowledge than trying to type show ip int br | e una or show ip os nei. I can't tell you how many times I've typed show run or conf t wrong on routers.

Do you also recommend not taking the time to create a key-map? I mapped mine to F6, seems a bit quicker and less error-prone to hit one key vs a 3-key combo followed by x. Then when you're ready to create your TCL script, just hit F6 1, type sibe, hit F6 2, type sibe and go the whole way down. Hit alt, highlight your IPs from R1 on down, paste them and remove dups and fluff.

Maybe I'm just paranoid, but with 4 hours left to go in the lab and I've completed it once, I think going over things once to look for abnormalities is a pretty good idea. Maybe you'll interpret a question a little different after something later in the lab jogged you memory. I think it's idealistic to think, hey I'm really good, there's no chance for errors. I think most people will tell you they have recovered points by going through the lab again.

So, just to reiterate, I think the 'shortcuts' are just as much for accuracy as they are for speed. What's the point of typing out a long drawn out command when you can type it out once and refer to again with 4 characters?

-ryan

-----Original Message-----
From: markom_at_gmail.com [mailto:markom_at_gmail.com] On Behalf Of Marko Milivojevic
Sent: Thursday, September 10, 2009 10:25 AM
To: Ryan West
Cc: Iwan Hoogendoorn; Irfan Azher; Cisco certification
Subject: Re: Time saving tips for during LAB [Time Management]

I would like to add a completely different point of view to this discussion.

If it's not in whe workbook, don't waste time on doing it. Practice
speed through understanding. If you know what you need to do, you
don't need shortcuts. If you are having time-related trouble for
typing "sh ip bgp sum" and need an alias for that - you're in trouble
;-). If you do tasks properly and trust yourself with it, you'll need
less verification.

Adding stuff to routers that you are not asked to do is begging for
touble. You may end-up not having time to remove all your shortcuts...

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Marko
CCIE #18427 (SP)
My network blog: http://cisco.markom.info/
On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 12:56, Ryan West <rwest_at_zyedge.com> wrote:
> If done properly, it should only take about 5 mins to verify the configs on all the routers and shotgun your aliases. B I know some are fans of individual windows for each router, but I liked the console approach for my studying and used it for the lab as well. B I would recommend practicing the keymap editor setup just to make sure the lab jitters don't get to you and autopilot takes over.
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