From: John Conzone (jkconzone@xxxxxxxx)
Date: Sun Jun 11 2000 - 13:44:21 GMT-3
Well, I've finally have seen my first CCIE lab, and it lived up to
its prior billing and then some! Didn't make it through the first day
and I was kind of discouraged, but after speaking to the proctor and
going over what I did, there is hope. I didn't see anything that I
looked at and didn't know how to configure basically and get running.
Thats the good news.
The bad news is you have to know pretty much all the bells and
whistles as well, or know where the stuff is on the CD (VERY
IMPORTANT!!!!), and think outside of real world scenarios (a nice way
of saying who thought up this fu%#ed up scenarios!), all under
tremendous time pressure.
I was able to configure almost all of everything I saw to about
75-80%, but there was always that last 25% of off the wall stuff in
almost every section! One thing in particular jammed me and sunk my
whole network for the most part, and I still don't understand it but I
will. The biggest problem for me was figuring out what they wanted,
and the CD.
So here's some advice which I also plan to follow. The Caslow
books and the other books are fine for basics, but they don't tell you
enough to get by. One has to go through the IOS from the start, read
everything from basic interface configurations to the end. Routing
TCPIP is also going to stay with me by my side. Me and the IOS CD are
going to become very familiar in the next three months. My goal is to
get to day 2 on my next attempt. I've already sent out my request for
my next toture session, but I'll be better prepared!
So keep studying! It just a matter of time, determination and
money!
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