Nick,
I would agree with Erik here, but to each his own. I only say
this from my own personal experience. I was studying for CCIE written
and about one month b4 my exam, I attended Narbik's bc. Great content,
extremely humbling, but on the way home, I decided to do nothing with
his material until I finished my written. I made the decision to sort of
separate the two for sake of being somewhat linear and being able to
schedule my lab once I passed the written; which did provide motivation
to buckle down. I couldn't focus mentally on the lab topics like I
needed to knowing that I had not cleared the written exam.
I hope this helps and if your way is working for you, stick with it..
The worst thing you can do is take someone else's advice that ultimately
does not work for you.
-Rob
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Subject: Re: [OSL | CCIE_RS] When do I start the workbooks? (Senor Joe
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Nick,
At this point, I would concentrate on passing your Written instead of
trying to master the configuration aspects of each technology. The CCIE
Written is designed to test your knowledge of conceptual and "under the
hood" aspects of the technologies - not as much of the "type this
command here, and this here." Once you get the Written out of the way,
you can start working on the fun stuff! I hated studying for my Written
by the way... Exteremly boring (I thought).
Obviously I am only a CCIE candidate and not a CCIE (yet), so please
take my advice with a grain of salt!
-Erik
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Subject: [OSL | CCIE_RS] When do I start the workbooks? (Senor Joe A,I
know you have an aswer!)
Hey everyone,
I got some questions, and as many know I am a
newbie in every sense of the word. I am getting I believe close to the
prize as far as the CCIE RS written is concerned.
Here is my approach:
I ask myself : What does it take to get a basic working configuration of
technology X?
Then I set it up see how it works, read some RFC's, Doyle's bible(s).
Once I got a basic understanding of it and use some hands on to
reinforce my knowledge. I move on to the more advanced areas of that
technology, watch some videos, hit cisco's website read blogs etc etc
(endless reading/watching videos - beating the dead horse until I can
recite in my sleep configurations and concepts!).
So that's what I have been doing. I am going through the blueprint got
the first page down cold as of last week topics 1.00 through 2.50 for
the v4 blueprint.
I started on BGP long ago with my BSCI completion several months back,
so I am pretty comfortable with BGP at least on the basic to
intermediate levels.
Basically, I can set up the basics of most topics on the v4 blueprint
(5.00 IP multicast, 6.00 NW and some of 8.00 QOS I can do the basics,
but want to master it all) security, with things like EIGRP, OSPF, RIP
really nailed down where I don't get tripped up but BGP I believe will
ALWAYS COME AFTER ME WITH A BIG STICK. Maybe I am wrong here, but seems
that way haha.
So the question is, I really want to get the MOST out of the workbooks,
so I just don't want to start them as I want to see them for the "First
time" and not see the answers, if that makes sense. I want the practice
labs to be a true "gauge" of where I am at so I don't give myself "False
hope". I am sure from what I can tell, if you read something and you
THINK you got it, sometimes you get tested on it and realize that you
SUCK AT IT.
So at one point does one start tackling the workbooks? I watch the VOD
after I have gotten the basics down so I can understand what's being
talked about.
Feels good to start looking at this blueprint and not feeling like the
devil is coming after me :)
Thanks for the input, I am hoping I will start to see some blue sky
break from the CCIE RS cloud soon!
-Nick
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