Re: Using the Workbooks

More good advice. The reviews stop you doing serial labs forever.
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From: "Netman" <netman.mg_at_gmail.com>
To: "groupstudy" <ccielab_at_groupstudy.com>
Sent: Sunday, August 08, 2010 4:56 PM
Subject: 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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