Advice on reading the whole lab before starting?

Not sure if anyone commenting on here has passed v4, but I've tried and time is definitely of the essence.

So I'm wondering - for all you guys who've passed v3 or v4, did you read the whole task list through first? I know INE recommend to read it (and if it's good enough to read once, it's good enough to read twice). Problem is - when I do this, it takes at least 30 minutes to read through just once. You read the task, have a preliminary look at the routers involved on the diagram and make some notes (which often just regurgitate the task).

If I read through, I spend time on each task familiarising with the topology and state of the part of the network relevant to the task. Then I move onto the next task and by the time I go through the whole task list, the first bits are largely forgotten.

So I'm wondering, would it be SO dangerous to just do the tasks in a linear fashion, reading a task through, then completing it before doing the next task? I figure I can gain an extra 45 minutes odd doing this, and the tasks are designed to be linear anyway.

Or am I just being too detailed in the task reading? Is the point in this to get a general idea of what's coming without assessing the finer points of the topology on each task?

Very keen to hear the strategy of passers, especially recent ones...
THANKS!

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Received on Sat Jan 01 2000 - 01:01:01 ARST