So what are we seeing here? The CCIE Wireless is really aimed at CCIE R&S plus a little wireless? Incredible statement that will certainly put it out of my reach!
Massive congrats on the pass though. On 8 February 2013 17:00, <[email protected]> wrote: > Send CCIE_Wireless mailing list submissions to > [email protected] > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > http://onlinestudylist.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ccie_wireless > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > [email protected] > > You can reach the person managing the list at > [email protected] > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of CCIE_Wireless digest..." > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. my CCIE journey (Kristj?n ?lafur E?var?sson) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Thu, 7 Feb 2013 22:37:10 +0000 > From: Kristj?n ?lafur E?var?sson <[email protected]> > To: "[email protected]" > <[email protected]> > Subject: [OSL | CCIE_Wireless] my CCIE journey > Message-ID: <2426A68554621145BDCFB71806B8FB6F3BDFF0B3@EXCH> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" > > Hey all and thanks for all the kind gratulation messages. > > Just a little story to sum this adventure up. Hope it is valuable to some. > > My Journey started in 2010. I had been working with wireless projects for > 8-9 years (but not full time) > before I decided to to for the CCIE. My background has been in the > networking with CCNP R&S > exam back in 2001. Also I have been involved in projects setting up VOIP > systems. Firewalls e.t.c > > This all helps. And gave me quicker entry in QOS, Routing and security > related parameters of the Wireless world. > And often it helps to prove things are wrong at the network, not the > wireless. This is most often the case! > and to be able to prove it instead of just saying it is, sure helps. Thats > why it is so common for R&S CCIEs > to have an easy time during the network part of this lab. > > So without the proper networking foundation, it is boing to be very hard > to pass this lab in my opinion. Not saying that CCIE R&S knowledge is > required. > but CCNP or close to it would be required. > > I was lucky enough to enter boot camps with Fastlane and IPexpert in the > past. And to meet both Jerome Henry and Jason Boyers was something that > helped me more than a lot. > both boot camps were different but both very good. So I recommend to > everyone to vary their study not to get stuck in specific wording or style. > I also wrote my own practice labs and this can become an interesting > experience. I took some of the question being discussed here, lab them up > and try to solve them and > explain them. Also I tried to take some of them to different levels and > make them more complex. > > So I like both Fastlanes and IPexpert material. They are not complete > guide to pass this lab. But I think one should not expect that with any > material. Experience should float us up on what is missing. > > I made 4 attempts to version 1 of the exam. First one was only to look, nr > 2 to 4 were very painfull. I sensed I had the knowledge but I was just > hitting a wall. This was much more > difficult than first time and I kept hitting that wall. Until the v1 > retired and I didn?t miss it ! I took a year off from exam taking. But > started preparing for version 2 about 8 months before taking it now on 5th > of febuary. > I studied very hard at the last 10 weeks before the exam. I think I missed > only a couple of nights of studying. I was studying every day as much as I > could from work, every night after dinner and every weekend I was taking > moc labs. I needed to get deep on ACS 5, and several other items on the > blueprint I wanted to grasp more deeper. > > Finally the lab is a mind game. You only need 80% to pass. So don?t be a > perfectionist and spend time on something you really have problems with > either solving or understanding. This is not all > about the knowledge. You should be calm and real focused. Read everything > well. Try to ask your self, what could be the trap here ? > > Well, long enough post :) > > Good luck everyone. This is sure doable since I did it ;) > > regards. Kristjan > > ------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > CCIE_Wireless mailing list > [email protected] > http://onlinestudylist.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ccie_wireless > > > End of CCIE_Wireless Digest, Vol 46, Issue 3 > ******************************************** >
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