Sorry it’s taken so long to finish this out. I’ve been incredibly busy with work, learning Cisco Viptela SD-WAN, SDA, and attending GSX (Global Sales Experience). Just after I got back from Las Vegas, I had to leave to go to Virginia for a family emergency. I’ve taken extra time Read more…
If you’ve come with me this far, thank you, and get ready to go a little further. If you hang out until the end, then hopefully there’ll be some good takeaways and advice. So That’s What Failure Tastes Like After my dismal showing at my first CCIE Lab attempt, I Read more…
The First Lab Attempt I felt really good. I was consistently doing well on INE full-scale labs. I could answer questions in our RouterGods CCIE study group without any trouble. I had taken a hit to my confidence by failing INE’s Graded Online Assessment, but I felt like the extra Read more…
Last time, we covered the CCIE R/S Written exam. This time, I’ll explain how I approached preparation for the CCIE R/S Lab Exam. In this post, I’ll cover how I got started with the lab exam preparation, what worked and what didn’t, and end with my first lab attempt. Fair Read more…
The Written Exam In some ways, the CCIE R/S Written exam is more of a bear than the lab. It covers an incredible amount of material, far more than the lab exam, though not quite as deep. Some people advocate studying for the written exam as a matter of course Read more…
This post should be the most useful to people planning for their own CCIE journey, and so I’ll take the most time to try and add good detail here. After deciding to get my CCIE, I needed to determine what that meant; what it would realistically mean in terms of Read more…
Okay. Dustin over at www.packetsmurf.org finally guilted me into doing this (not directly, but by posting his write-up of his CCIE journey). Before we can examine my CCIE journey, though, we should examine from where I started, because from where you start has a large impact on how you should Read more…