moving forward to IE
Recently accepted a new gig with better career challenges (I hope) but with this newest coming I recently got a burst of new study energy. I have been studying cbts and reading like crazy. I recently completed the knet bgp and started a major chewing session on the IE written guide.
The first day i ate 5 chapters, day 2 chewed 4 chapters ( TCP/IP vol-1 RIP chapter was longer than expected but very detailed) and looking to finish 2 more IGP chapters today (had alot of personal stuff to do today). I will skim the bgp in the written guide as i have already completed the knet last week.
The first day i ate 5 chapters, day 2 chewed 4 chapters ( TCP/IP vol-1 RIP chapter was longer than expected but very detailed) and looking to finish 2 more IGP chapters today (had alot of personal stuff to do today). I will skim the bgp in the written guide as i have already completed the knet last week.
Become the stainless steel sharp knife in a drawer full of rusty spoons
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Good luck and keep us updated!
Still going to skim/review over bgp sections but not at the moment.
If you are reading Odom I can highly recommend that book. It got me through the written after covering all the whitepapers on the recommended reading list. I found that carefully covering no more than a couple of chapters a day worked best for me, sometimes just one chapter as there is a lot of detail there and some great configuration examples to follow through. Then I did the end of chapter questions, recorded the score and moved on.
In this way I read all 24 chapters and had a score recorded for the subjects. Then I skimmed the chapters again one by one and did the end of chapter questions again and recorded the score. If I found a subject particularly tricky I did the questions as an open book exam. After all that, if you are still foxed on a particular question have a look at the solution, try and understand it and move on. I found that for some subjects there were sometimes a few questions I consistently struggled on, so I looked over those solutions until I had the mechanism down. Certainly after reading a chapter again my scores improved, but I tried not to revisit end of chapter questions until sometimes a week had passed since I had last seen them.
Once I was over 70% for every single chapter I did the final exam a few times. Anything you keep getting wrong, print out the solution and look it over so you understand it. Then sit the test.
I recorded my scores for each chapter on the whiteboard in my home office as a motivator. I was done with the book in about five weeks studying evenings and weekends.
I should also add that I find this book very useful for my lab prep. It has some very good configuration examples.
Isn't that "The hunt is afoot!"? :P
by the time you get your # you'll have broken the spine on the book .....