Excellent advice as always my friend, will come in handy this December!

Matt Hill <[email protected]> wrote:


Here a few things from my view.  Take them as you will.

How far from the lab location are you?  Ensure your flight is at least
ino day in advance.  Do not fly out on the morning of the lab, even if
it is only an hour flight.  You still need to dick around with
security, transfers etc and your hour flight really takes about 5
hours.

Dont rink ANY alcohol.  No matter how tough you think you are and how
well you think you can handle your grog.  Maybe one glass of wine with
dinner OR a cognac for a nightcap or similar but that will do.  You
will be surprised at how much or a difference this will make after 3-4
days.

Make sure it takes less than 10 seconds to find anything in the
documentation.  You WILL find somehting you are unsure of.  The docs
load rather fast in the lab (I assume there is a local cache) so you
cant blame load times.  Efficient documentation usage is essential if
you want to pass.

A car wont run without wheels.  Therefore dont concentrate on the
sunroof or the sound system.  If your L2/OSPF etc is shagged then
there is no point trying to get the L7 pretty stuff working because
they wont even score without the underlying working.

The above are general well-being/lab concepts.  Work these and you
will be ready for test week.

L-7  Keep studying as normal.  By now you should be doing higher end
lab sims within 6 hours.  If not enjoy your $1500 hamburger.

L-6 to L-3 As above

L-2 travel day.  Stay out of the bar at the airport.  Leave your books
at home.  If you dont know it now you never well.  Doing study from
now will only stress you out because you think you dont know things.

L-1 hotel day pre lab.  Grab your favourite media player and plug it
in to the TV in the hotel and watch the enrite Star Wars/Back to the
Future/Rocky/Debbie Does Dalls or whatever you like to do to chill
out.  Go and get a massage.  Buy a new jacket or jeans or something.
Dont even think about the lab at all.  Yes, this is just as easy to do
as it is to say.  A massage in the evening is very beneficial.  Have a
nice dinner and get to bed as early as you can.  A decent night sleep
is worth about 30% of your mark (in my view).  If you sleep well you
can think better, see problems quicker and focus more.  You could have
done 16 hours a day study for past three years  and if you dont sleep
well the night before then it wont make any difference whatsoever.

L-0.  test day.  Get up early so you arent to drowsy when you walk
into the test.  Get a nice breakfast.  Have a coffee.  Not too many so
you dont get the jitters (save that for the QoS section
*baddum-tsch*).  Enjoy the lab and kick it all the way back to San
Jose!

Cheers,
Matt

CCIE #22386
CCSI #31207


On 7 May 2011 01:38, Michael Smith <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Hello all,
>
> Well its official, I have one month left to go until test day. I will blow 
> through the rest of Volume 3's labs (going through them will with barely any 
> hiccups!). I've also been really reading the Doc CD on the 3560 and 12.4. I 
> feel like I'm really comfortable finding any command that I need and I've 
> practiced all of the obscure things. Other than continuously labbing for the 
> final month is there anything else that you guys (that have passed) would do 
> for the final stretch that would put me over the top? Thanks for the advice 
> in advance.
>
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