Re: CCIE R & S Difficulties

Totally agree.. Tshoot is the hardest section.. Time, you need to have a strategy of all your time.. Not only during the exam but specially how you manage your time on the final 6 months preparing for it.

On 19/06/2011, at 16:30, Max Pierson <nmaxpierson_at_gmail.com> wrote:

>> 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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