One week til d-day.... studying like there is tomorrow

I have my second attempt on Thursday Dec 5th. Some of you may be interested in the preparation steps from my first attempt on October 14th to now, so here's a quick synopsis.

After failing, I wrote down all the topics that tripped me up during the lab. I bought the Cisco 360 Practice lab workbook which has 35 practice labs... labs 29-35 are updated for version 4.

Within RouterGods, I formed a sub-group of five people who had upcoming lab dates in December and January. We started labbing up each practice lab. At first it was pretty tough and it would take several hours to complete a lab, but things became faster.

I went crazy with rack rentals and plunked down $160-ish for a bunch of sessions from cconline. I would have gone with Narbik, but all his racks are full. For the past month, I've had an early session for east coast guys and a late session for Pacific time zone. I did each lab three times.. once in the afternoon, once at night and in GNS3 after the rack rental session died out.

It's pretty amazing how fast you get after putting in all that time labbing. I time every section to see if I'm getting faster/slower and one lab I got up to redistribution in 25 minutes which is pretty nuts and no it wasn't one of those labs where everything was preconfigured.

I grabbed Daniel's awesome Anki card set and add a bunch of my own (mainly ip services trivia stuff). Been going through those like a madman.

For the next five days I will do at least two practice labs a day and then rest the day before the exam.

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cyberguypr

Best of luck!

reaper81

Good luck man. I think you have it covered this time.

Glad to see you helping out in the community.

routergods

Anyone know of a good sleep reset technique? I'm currently a vampire, waking up at 7pm and sleeping at noon.

Obviously not a good thing for lab day!

instant000

When I was in the military, we'd often have to have staff duty, or charge of quarters, which would be a 24 hour duty day, followed by a reset day, and then we would go back to our regular schedule.

The quickest way to reset the schedule would be to stay up until regular bedtime, as late as you could.

So, for example, if you started duty at 6 AM, and worked through the following 6 AM, you'd have to stay up until that evening, which would mean usually staying up for a total of 36-38 hours before going to sleep.

It will be rough for that one day, but it will be well worth it, to get your schedule back in sync.

We would do the same when we traveled overseas. You'd be on a flight for 20+ hours. You'd force yourself to stay up until the "normal" bedtime, and then go to sleep.

It's rough for that one day, but it'll get you back on schedule quicker.

This is just based on military duty for six years. Your mileage may vary.

routergods

Thanks instant... might as well do that today. 10:30 AM Pacific... been up since 7PM. Should be a fun day

FloOz

Goodluck!!

fredrikjj

With that username you better pass dude

Essendon

Good luck!

Ivanjam

@routergods - good luck on the lab - we are rooting for you!

Dieg0M

Good luck!

Iristheangel

Good luck! I'll miss your videos for the next week but totally understand that you're in heavy lab/study mode

Dijkstra

Best of luck, I hope you make it this time.

gorebrush

Surely "routing for you"

jamesp1983

Good luck.

Ivanjam

@gorebrush - I tried that pun earlier but I think it was lost on the Yanks, as they tend to pronounce route as ˈrau̇t, rather than as ˈrüt.

NotHackingYou

Best of luck!

snadam

Best of luck!

gregorio323

ip access-list extended CCIE-ACCESS
permit ip host routergods host CCIE eq ccienumber

tearofs

gregorio323 wrote: »

ip access-list extended CCIE-ACCESS
permit ip host routergods host CCIE eq ccienumber

int Wallet0/1
ip access-group CCIE-ACCESS in

Ivanjam

@routergods - good luck on getting that NUMBER later today!

gorebrush

Well today is the day.

/waits patiently

Zartanasaurus

gregorio323 wrote: »

ip access-list extended CCIE-ACCESS
permit ip host routergods host CCIE eq ccienumber

Shouldn't it be permit ip host cisco host routergods eq ccienumber? We want Cisco to send him a CCIE number right?

:nerd:

routergods

Eating breakfast at the Starbucks down the street from Cisco... will be going in 45 mins.

RAWR

64:61:6e

Good luck!

jamesp1983

You got this.

Zorodzai

All the best routergod

RouteMyPacket

Probably breaking for lunch right now...come back and shore up configs, verify and get that number...woo wooo!

I'm assuming this is the R/S lab?

bermovick

EEK!

GOOD LUCK! \o/

amb1s1

Good Luck, I hope it went well. Waiting for your post.

aragoen_celtdra

Alright Humpster, you're keeping us all in suspense here.

I'm sure by now you've gotten the results. Give us the happy news!