Re: Motivation for CCIE Lab Exams

Rock on, Joe.

Regards,
Jay McMickle- CCNP,CCSP,CCDP
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On Oct 6, 2011, at 1:13 PM, marc edwards <renorider_at_gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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