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Studying. Practice. Lots of practice. I purchased the InternetworkExpert end-to-end program and I completed all 30 of the practice labs plus a couple of mock labs (Brian and Brian were great!). I did the live on-line classes and I watched the prerecorded ones repeatedly. I listened to the audio classes repeatedly. I also took the first week of the NetMasterClass training. Bruce, Val, and Bob are great! I took notes in several different forms. I used a tool called freemind to make a massive mind-map. I took traditional notes and highlighted items in various texts. I made close to one thousand flashcards for particular items I needed help remembering. All said, I spent 8 months, 4-12 hours a day, 5-6 days a week preparing for the lab. Then I took and passed the lab. Personally the one thing that helped me the most, more than anything, was to admit that I knew far less about networking than I previously thought. I humbled myself greatly and I approached every topic as if I was learning it anew. I had a lot of false notions about how things actually worked. Also, you will realize during the actual hands-on application of the various topics... that there are a lot of dead trees in the form of books (including CiscoPress books) that are written very poorly or are just plain wrong. Even Cisco's documentation is very poor or wrong in a lot of places. The only way to really wrap your head around some things is to read from multiple sources about it AND to then build it in a lab and debug it.. in various scenarios and environments. A particularly enlightening exercise to try and reduce any scenario or functionality to the absolute minimum amount of commands needed to do it. Then think carefully on what you removed and what the actual purpose of it is. Then take copious notes. The end. Mad Unix wrote: > Can you please tell me, what *you* did to master Ccie Lab? > > your iput really appreciated. > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG - www.avg.com > Version: 8.0.237 / Virus Database: 270.10.23/1952 - Release Date: 02/13/09 > 18:29:00 > > _______________________________________________ cisco-nsp mailing list [email protected] https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/cisco-nsp archive at http://puck.nether.net/pipermail/cisco-nsp/
