Timeline for CCIE
Hi folks,
I am just curious what type of timeline I should expect to prepare for the CCIE. I am thinking 2 years or so before my first attempt.
Does this sound feasible?
I am just curious what type of timeline I should expect to prepare for the CCIE. I am thinking 2 years or so before my first attempt.
Does this sound feasible?
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2020 Goals: 0 of 2 courses complete, 0 of 2 exams complete
I am planning on dedicating about 10 hours/week or so to CCNP > CCIE studies.
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You should read Turgon's thread about his journey towards his CCIE: http://techexams.net/forums/viewtopic.php?t=23875
That might help shed some light on what's involved.
Thanks for a constructive answer.
And after reading the responses I expect something more like 4 years to be reasonable.
know the material.
The question to ask your self is are you quick at learning this material? If you practice
something now will you forget it in 3 months? Do you get side tracked very easily?
There is alot of stuff that will play a roll in your studying. Hours on the lab does not matter
if you have a job in the field, everyday at work is lab time. Its not as much so your study
time that matters as much as your ability to learn and retain the material, otherwise
what good will it do you if you practice it and forget it 3 months later? that of which is 9
months before you take the lab? I'm sure ya see where I'm going with this
Some people have been known to study 6 months and pass the lab(s) with flying colors on
the first attempt, others have studied for years and failed it 22 times in a roll...
Well hadda put my 2 sense in the pot.
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I passed the written 4/10/2006 and passed on my 4th attempt on 5/18/2007.
If that is the case then the CCIE is a little overrated when they call it the "Ph.D" of the certifications. It is more like a Master's.
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Im after it. I started studying for the CCNA in January 22nd. I should be taking the exam before May 1rst. I could take it today because i already covered all the topics but i want to be super confident when i sit there. I have been studying several sources because i was not very confident. If i had kept studying from the sybex book since I started i wuld have probably passed the exam already. It is very important to have a good source of studies before you commit to certain certification specially if your part of your goals is making it fast.
GL.
Another thing I've seen is the semantics-debate over the term "CCIE is like the PhD of networking". It's true, it is. . . in a manner of speaking. No, it might not take you eight to twelve years to go from newbie to CCIE, and it is definitely a tougher trek to get a PhD from an accredited and respected university than it is to take a professional certification from a corporation. However, the journeys are similar, the dedication people put in is similar, and the proportions of work and effort required when comparing lower-level certs to the CCIE is similar.
Comparing CCNA to CCIE is kind of like comparing how difficult getting an Associate's degree is to taking a PhD. Comparing CCNP (and the other pro-level certs,) to CCIE is like comparing a Bachelor's degree to a doctorate. The comparison isn't in time or sheer difficulty, it's to give a frame of reference against a more commonplace scenario. Why do we compare the CCIE to a PhD, and not to a Master's degree? Because CCIE is the highest-level cert, (along with CCDE,) that Cisco offers. In a parallel way, a PhD is generally the highest-level graduate obtainable degree that people readily recognize. I suppose we could call CCIE "the D.P.S. of networking", but most people wouldn't get it.
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Then how many hours per day did you study during the non stopping study in the 18 months ?
Yeah how many hours on the weekdays and on the weekends?