I’m Stan Johnson from Orlando but living in Bel Air, MD (long story). I’m a network engineer with 24+ years of experience working with the DoD as a contractor. I finally decided to man-up and start my journey towards my CCIE. I know this site has some great resources for that training so I signed up to get a different perspective for some areas. I’m also enrolled into INE.com which has some great information as well. It’s a pleasure to meet you all!
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Hello Stan,
Welcome! It’s a good idea to use multiple resources for CCIE. It is a lot of material and everyone has a different way of explaining things.
Are you at the start? Going through different topics on your own?
Even if it’s far away, I always recommend to book a lab date. That makes it much more real.
One of the issues with CCIE is that it’s so much that it’s easy to study hard for a few weeks, then slack off because life/work gets in the way.
Like a marathon, nobody is going to run 26 miles for fun. Everyone trains for that big event. Make that big event your CCIE lab date.
I wish you good luck and if you want to know anything, you know where to find us.
Rene
Hey Rene! I’m at the start of training right now. So I plan on looking over the topics on INE.com and going through those and the labs that come with them. They have around 28+ topics on CCIE areas so I’ll take my time with that. That’s a good idea on scheduling the exam. Once I find a nice rhythm and consistency with my study habits, I’ll do that!
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Hi Stan,
Sounds like a plan. In the beginning, it’s nice just to go through all topics one-by-one. Make sure you take plenty of notes:
When you go through L2 stuff today, you’ll forget a lot once you look into BGP a couple of weeks later.
Once you are at the level where you start doing full labs, this problem is solved because you’ll be repeating the same L2 > L3 > Network Services > etc > etc > etc topics over and over again.
Rene