Thanks Tony, Lessons learnt or advice? I'm happy to give my thoughts but please remember that everyone has different backgrounds and day to day experiences, methods of study and ways of doing things so I can really only talk about things from my perspective and I don't think it's one size fits all...
For me troubleshooting was my bane of existance - there are some training vendors that offer TS scenarios that are of similar network size and have a similar interface to the real lab, at the very least have a look at the TS interface demo on CCO to get an understanding. In particular when you move between tickets close down all the telnet sessions (don't forget to wr mem if you changed something!) with ~30 routers and a number of switches you'll get lost if you don't do that. I believe that there are some newer IPexpert material focused on TS but I haven't looked at it, perhaps there are some good techniques they can share. I was big into printed workbooks for study but since lab is now delivered online, you may as well save the cost of getting dead tree versions of workbooks and get used to reading lab tasks on the same monitor that you're configuring routers and switches with. Personally when doing the lab I didn't draw too much in the way of diagrams, in the lab you tend to get pretty good L3 diagrams but it can be helpful to draw the L2 diagrams but I certainly kept notes, particularly in config if there was a section I knew I was uncertain about or needed to revisit I would make a note about it and then cross it out after I had addressed it. TCL scripts and ping macros are really good test tools and not that hard to do - "show ip alias" can be helpful in assembling the list of IP interfaces on devices. When to book the lab can be a tough situation, for my first attempt I booked way in advance and took quite a bit of time off work to prep for the lab - it was kind of hard because when I booked I wasn't quite "ready" but I had to give my work plenty of notice so I could take my leave to prepare for the lab. That said, once your booking is in and you've hit the 90 day no re-schedule/no refund window there's this extra bit of pressure to definitely stop slacking and go for it. Looking at the success stories on this list and others there seem to be plenty of people that make it to CCIE status on the first attempt but there are also those such as myself that for whatever reason don't. All I can say is that if you don't pass before getting too discouraged and give up, recall why you wanted to be a CCIE in the first place and remember that there are guys like myself that took a number of attempts to get over the line, and besides some personal embarrassment, it's not a race against anyone else except yourself. Cheers, Adam On Fri, Jul 13, 2012 at 7:59 PM, Tony Singh <[email protected]> wrote: > Congratulations Adam you kept at it!! > > Any key points for first timers, lessons learnt etc > > -- > BR > > Sent from my iPhone on 3 > > On 13 Jul 2012, at 09:57, Kim Pedersen <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Hi Adam, > > > > Good Job.- Enjoy it! > > > > Kim > > > > On Fri, Jul 13, 2012 at 10:06 AM, Adam Booth <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> Hi guys, > >> > >> Earlier on in the week, I faced off the CCIE lab (for the fifth) time > and > >> this time round I got my number! > >> > >> For the first three attempts I was able to get through the configuration > >> portion but the troubleshooting got me down (though each time my marks > in > >> that area improved) > >> The fourth attempt, I guess I put too much focus on addressing my > >> troubleshooting shortcomings because things got flipped around and I > passed > >> TS but failed configuration. > >> > >> At least I knew I was now able to pass both sections, I just somehow > needed > >> to make them both occur at the same time. > >> > >> Fortunately for me, on Tuesday I was able to make that happen and > obtained > >> my digits. I think only those that didn't pass on the first go have an > >> understanding of the relief I (and my wife who was so supporting in each > >> non-successful attempt) felt. > >> > >> In particular mailing lists like this one provided quite a bit of > >> motivation to keep things going when things didn't seem to go so well > for > >> me, simply seeing other people keen to do things and asking questions > (and > >> sometimes being able to provide suggestions myself) helped me re-group > and > >> re-focus and not give up. Now I get to brag like all the others that > made > >> it through! > >> > >> My blog which has a longer version of this story and a bunch of other > >> things I learnt along the way is here http://noshut.blogspot.com/ for > those > >> that could be interested. > >> > >> I'm not planning on doing another track any time soon but never say > >> never.... > >> > >> Adam Booth > >> CCIE #35951 > >> _______________________________________________ > >> For more information regarding industry leading CCIE Lab training, > please visit www.ipexpert.com > >> > >> Are you a CCNP or CCIE and looking for a job? 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