Re: CCIE R & S Difficulties

>balancing my time between work, wife, kids, and study

+1

I tried the `study full time and consult on the side`, but even that has
it's own set of challenges.

Technical wise, getting my lab configuration section down to 6 hours or less
has been the most difficult for me. One could say "then you need to learn
the very deep details of the blueprint", however I spend most of my time
having to read the task once, then twice, then 3 times etc, which takes a
lot of time away from me actually typing in commands. Sometimes I get caught
up second guessing myself on what it's actually asking me to do rather than
me not knowing the technology. I've had to just move on and mark that task
as not complete and go back and try again once I get time.

I'm still trying to tweak my strategy, but I believe if you learn what's on
the blueprint, and I mean really learn it as in do it as many ways as the
protocol can be configured, you should be ok. I'm finding the more 8 hour
mock labs I take down, the faster I am getting. So it would seem at least in
my situation, just stay in the lab as much as possible, even thought it
gets repetitive, that's how i'm building up my speed.

One other thing I would recommend, if you start getting that "burned out or
not motivated" feeling, step away from the keyboard and go and do something
you like to do that doesn't require a lot of thinking. After I do that, I
get back in the lab and feel MUCH better than just trying to "punch through
or cram". I wouldn't recommend taking more then a few days off. I took 2
weeks off and felt that I lost some my touch, but YMMV.

HTH's,
Max

On Sun, Jun 19, 2011 at 12:13 PM, Steve Di Bias <sdibias_at_gmail.com> wrote:

> For me the most difficult part is balancing my time between work, wife,
> kids, and study. Of course there are many other challenges, like having the
> knowledge of a doctor but in networking, however balancing my time is
> probably the hardest...
> On Jun 19, 2011 9:35 AM, "lijo varghese" <lijoccie_at_gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hello geeks
> >
> >
> > What is the most difficult problem, that you have faced in CCIE lab and
> > during the Preparation of CCIE studies ?
> > What is the Main Troubles you faced in your Lab and your Work space ?
> >
> >
> >
> > Please send your Experience.....
> >
> > Thanks in advance............................................
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