Myself and a friend are to attempt our first CCIE Lab on the 30th September 2016. I hope to add information about the preparation and the outcome once it is done.
For now there's only time to study and think about studying. I've been ill for 2 days and that has seriously affected my ability to to this. I feel a whole lot better now so thought I'd start the post with my thoughts on why I'd write this.
So, study is hard, the CCIE syllabus is too large to actually know all of it to the level you'd like. I made the mistake of thinking over time I could know it all. When I was 19, maybe. Actually before I smoked a lot of weed and did a lot of other fun drugs I think so. Now, it's hard.
So, I changed focus about 3 months back (as the date approached) and I decided to not put it off again. Study for the exam! This has so far been excellent as I'm picking up the details for what's coming and getting better overall at putting a complete solution together. I highly recommend this approach and to do all of INE's labs, mock labs, trouble shooting labs and loop back and do them all again, slowly. The second time around go in deep, see the issues, use the show commands to see the details and know what they mean.
I have converted all of INE's R&S configurations to work on GNS3 with 15.5(2)BX (sic) IOS if anyone wants them. They are not perfect as things like BFD crash GNS3 but they give you nearly all of what you need. The rest I'll get from rack rental and my own switches and routers.
OK, you all have a nice day and I'll update this as I get time.
For now there's only time to study and think about studying. I've been ill for 2 days and that has seriously affected my ability to to this. I feel a whole lot better now so thought I'd start the post with my thoughts on why I'd write this.
So, study is hard, the CCIE syllabus is too large to actually know all of it to the level you'd like. I made the mistake of thinking over time I could know it all. When I was 19, maybe. Actually before I smoked a lot of weed and did a lot of other fun drugs I think so. Now, it's hard.
So, I changed focus about 3 months back (as the date approached) and I decided to not put it off again. Study for the exam! This has so far been excellent as I'm picking up the details for what's coming and getting better overall at putting a complete solution together. I highly recommend this approach and to do all of INE's labs, mock labs, trouble shooting labs and loop back and do them all again, slowly. The second time around go in deep, see the issues, use the show commands to see the details and know what they mean.
I have converted all of INE's R&S configurations to work on GNS3 with 15.5(2)BX (sic) IOS if anyone wants them. They are not perfect as things like BFD crash GNS3 but they give you nearly all of what you need. The rest I'll get from rack rental and my own switches and routers.
OK, you all have a nice day and I'll update this as I get time.
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