From: Mingzhou Nie (mnie@yahoo.com)
Date: Sun Sep 08 2002 - 10:21:19 GMT-3
Way to go, Colin. I too would like to get a number within 10000, but
the more I think about it, the less I care now.
Congrats!
Ming
--- Colin Barber <Colin.Barber@telewest.co.uk> wrote:
> There has been a problem with my groupstudy access over the last 9
> days but
> hopefully everything is working now.
>
> I took my second lab attempt in Brussels on Monday 2nd September.
> Recently
> there seems to have been a large number of people gaining their
> numbers and
> unfortunately, for anybody wishing that the numbers would stop going
> up so
> quickly, I haven't slowed them down having been awarded #10086.
>
> It took me 4.5 hours to get home and my result was waiting for me.
> Looking
> at the time when my email was received my result was available 40
> minutes
> after the lab finished. In fact not taking into account the 1 hour
> time
> difference between the UK and central Europe I received my result 20
> minutes
> before I finished!
>
> I set myself two targets this year after passing the written exam at
> the end
> of December 2001. The first one was to pass the lab this year and the
> second
> was to get a number under 10000. Well I achieved the main one and
> missed out
> on the second by a few weeks.
>
> On my route to achieving my number I went through the Cisco Career
> certifications:
> 6/2000 CCNA
> 12/2000 CCDA
> 5/2001 640-504
> 6/2001 640-505
> 9/2001 640-503
> 9/2001 640-506 and CCNP
> 11/2001 CCDP
> 12/2001 CCIE written
> 9/2002 CCIE lab
>
> I think that the career certifications help in studying for the CCIE,
> certainly the written exam, however you also realise that what you
> learnt
> for the CCNP is not a in-depth as you thought at the time.
>
>
> I have a few bits of advise for people attempting the lab, most of
> which has
> been posted before:
>
> Make sure you have read the document CD and use it all the time
> during
> studying. There is a lot of information contained on that CD, if you
> have
> seen the hard copy version you will know what I mean, and therefore
> do not
> underestimate the time required to read it all.
>
> Read as many different books as possible. Most of them contain
> duplicate
> information and the last books you read will probably contain 99% of
> information that you already know, however even if you learn just one
> or two
> new commands or a new way of looking at something then it has been
> worth
> reading that book. I stuck mainly with the Cisco Press books.
>
> Also use CCO for your studying. There is an enormous amount of
> information
> there and it's free.
>
> During the lab use your lunch break. 5 or 10 minutes before lunch
> look and
> the next couple of questions. You can then use your time to start to
> solve
> those questions. If you just go to lunch thinking about your current
> question you may solve that in 5 minutes and then you just sit there
> for 25
> minutes wanting to get back into the lab.
>
> Don't worry about aliases. If you have done enough studying then you
> will be
> typing in common commands quickly enough. If you read the questions
> fully,
> understand what is required and know how to implement it then you
> will have
> more than enough time. I would think most people that pass would have
> 1 to 2
> hours at the end of the exam to go back and check your work. Saving
> 0.3s
> typing 'si' instead of 'sho ip rou' is not going to give you enough
> time if
> you don't understand the question or know the commands to configure
> it.
>
> If you get stuck on a question and the next question does not rely on
> it
> then move on as quickly as possible. You can always come back to it
> later.
> This is where you lose time. You have the points value for the
> questions and
> therefore you can gauge the amount of time you should be spending on
> it.
> Finish the rest of the lab and come back to any questions you haven't
> completed and use the CD if needed.
>
> Save your configs frequently
>
> Ask the proctors questions. They are good guys and will help you as
> much as
> the are allowed.
>
>
>
> Regards,
> Colin
>
>
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