Re: Using the Workbooks

Gary,

you have to build in a review to the process. You cannot just go in a
SERIAL fashion and then circle back after 8 months. That is impossible.

You need to breakdown the blueprint a little bit:

Core
Higher level features (MCAST/IPv6/MPLS)
Security
IOS Applications and services

CORE:
You need to focus on the Plumbing first and Bridging/switching, frame
-relay, IGPs, redistribution, BGP
When focusing on one technology you should not go more than three days
before reviewing something you did previously.
The review could be: flash cards, a VoD, lab, workbook sections that you are
weak in.

When you can do you workbook chapters in a 4-8 hour window that means you
know your stuff and then you can move on to Higher level features.

Practice exams: great tools for reviewing since they take cover so many
topics. Just don;t get hung up on tasks that you have not fully mastered,
aybe you shoudl just try an dfind the documentation and spend 20-40 minutes
on them versus getting bogged down.

Everyone is different, but I think I had similar issues to you so my advice
my make sense.

How I measure my progress:
I keep a log of all of the racktime and what sections I work on and the time
I logged. If I am working on Vol X Lab 10 and I do 10.1 -10.24 I record
that. Also I have a text file that has my "notes" from when I went through
practice labs.

netman

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Received on Sun Aug 08 2010 - 08:56:07 ART