Step 4 : Schedule When you got a date of your ccie lab exam, you can schedule your personally agenda for reading and practicing.  When you make a schedule, be honest to yourself. You can schedule time in the weekend but if you are full with all kind of things, you will have to make … Read more

Step 5 : Find study partners You can do your journey by yourself and it is doable but when you have a companion, you will experience that the journey is easier. If a colleague is also starting with a CCIE journey you can together create a schedule and use the same equipment’s. What if you … Read more

Step 6 : Practice Although it is possible that you have some hands-on experience due to your job, the main focus should be practice, practice, practice. One time during a ccie coaching session I saw that a participant was very smart, but he was very slow with typing. I advised him to have typing lessons … Read more

Step 7 : Strategy You are at the ccie lab exam and it is time to start. What will you do ? Just start with configuring the routers ? Or do you start to read the whole exam before touching a keyboard ? Do you start at the beginning and skip questions when you don’t … Read more

Step 8 : Make mistakes Did I ever had an environment that was the same as the CCIE lab? No way! I was not even close. During the Voice lab, I only had two routers, some old phones and I wanted to have a MGCP gateway, H323 gateway and a CME. I could create this … Read more

Step 9 : Speed Now you know everything for becoming a CCIE. Theoretically and how to configure it. Now it is time to practice on speed. Remember that you have 3 minutes for each point to earn. If you use the “?” after a command you have an area where you still can gain speed. … Read more

Step 10 : Pass The last step is 8 hours and it is the hardest to do. Pass the lab is the last step to become CCIE! You work so hard for it and the first time taking the lab is a mystery. What to expect. How will it be? Do not be nervous and … Read more