Re: Motivation for CCIE Lab Exams

Simply Awesome Joe!

On Thu, Oct 6, 2011 at 9:52 AM, Joe Rinehart <jjrinehart_at_hotmail.com> wrote:

> Let me chime in here because I have been down this road myself. I took the
> exam FIVE times before passing, which by itself was ridiculously expensive.
> On my second or third attempt I configured a trunk connection that took
> down
> the entire Layer 2 backbone for the lab, which I would just say is NOT the
> way I would want the proctors to remember me. After failing the fourth
> time, my now ex-wife advised me to simply quit because she didn't think I
> would manage to achieve it. Instead, I quit HER about a month or so later.
> So in about October, I was sitting in a tiny apartment (that smelled like
> mold) with no money, no furniture, wondering if I made the right decision
> to
> leave. I got the Netmaster Class CCIE workbook and did nothing but study
> for four months, and passed on December 10, 2004. With that background,
> here are my answers to these questions:
>
> 1. CCIE Lab Exams are very difficult and voluminous; how can someone
> continuously motivate himself to prepare for and attempt this exam.
>
> Remember the goal and never give up. Also, study the relevant IOS
> documentation and know not only the features but how the protocols work.
> Find every lab scenario and work through it piece by piece, and understand
> why things work the way that they did. Break something in the lab and
> rebuilt it again. Repeat this process as many times as you can stand it
> and
> then do it several more times.
>
> 2. What can an aspiring CCIE do if you fail an attempted CCIE lab exam.
>
> Every time I finished the exam , I jotted down notes of what I remembered
> seeing on the exam and areas which had I had trouble. I then took those
> and
> mapped them in my own lab and solved the problem so it wouldn't trouble me
> again. Then I would analyze why I failed...was it knowledge gaps, lacking
> a
> good strategy, or was it related to speed, namely how fast I was able to
> accurately complete the tasks. After that, I would start doing practice
> labs again, applying those lessons learned.
>
> Overall, I like what Karl Solie (the guru that wrote the very first CCIE
> prep books for Cisco Press) had to say; he told me that taking the exam
> multiple times, rather than just once or twice, enhanced an engineer's
> ability to respond to different conditions, and preparing them for
> conditions in the real world.
>
> Hope that helps
>
> Joe Rinehart
> MBA, CCIE #14256, CCNP/DP/VP
> President and CEO
> Gracestone Professionals, LLC
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: nobody_at_groupstudy.com [mailto:nobody_at_groupstudy.com] On Behalf Of
> marc
> edwards
> Sent: Wednesday, October 05, 2011 4:19 PM
> To: Tannie Philly
> Cc: Bashir Sani; Groupstudy
> Subject: Re: Motivation for CCIE Lab Exams
>
> Someone who has never failed has never tried.
>
> On Wed, Oct 5, 2011 at 8:33 AM, Tannie Philly <tanniephilly_at_gmail.com
> >wrote:
>
> > Scott Quotable Quote . . "FAILURE ALONE DOES NOT DEFINE A PERSON. WHAT
> > THEY DO AFTERWARDS DOES."
> > Lovely!
> > On Wed, Oct 5, 2011 at 3:36 PM, Bashir Sani <bashkhid_at_gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > > Thank you Scott. advise well said...
> > >
> > > Bashir
> > >
> > >
> > > On Fri, Apr 29, 2011 at 11:54 AM, Eniola Olaleye
> > > <eniola.olaleye_at_gmail.com>wrote:
> > >
> > > > I have some questions; sorry if they sound stupid or childish.
> > > >
> > > > 1. CCIE Lab Exams are very difficult and voluminous; how can
> > > > someone continuously motivate himself to prepare for and attempt this
> exam.
> > > >
> > > > 2. What can an aspiring CCIE do if you fail an attempted CCIE lab
> exam.
> > > >
> > > > I will appreciate your experiences.
> > > >
> > > > Regards.
> > > >
> > > > Enny
> > > >
> > > >
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