Read some more OSPF tonight. I’ve decided it’s going to be a LONG road to OSPF supremacy! For the written, I want to know OSPF well, but I’m not looking to learn every little detail so that I spend so much time on it I forget all of the other subjects..make sense? So here’s my roadmap:
- Read OSPF (Chapter 8, CCIE exam cert guide, 4th edition)
- Lab OSPF scenarios every OTHER day. Since there’s so much information that goes with OSPF, I want to make the majority of my studying for now reading about it, and by skipping a day of OSPF labbing, it allows me to have plenty to lab after reading about it for 2 days.
- On the “off” days from OSPF labbing (bear in mind, I’ll still be reading about it..), I’ll do light layer 2 labs to stay fresh, maybe even skim through a couple of pages from LAN Switching here and there.
- Once I finish reading OSPF from the exam cert guide, I’ll skim through TCP/IP Vol I’s coverage of it, which is huge! I’ve read through some of the chapter before in that book, but not all. Once I get this covered I’ll probably move on to the next subject.
I’d say right now I’m looking at ‘finishing’ OSPF as far as the written goes in about 7-10 days. Work will play a role too since I’m going to switch shifts soon and have less time at work to study. Either way, that brings us into April, and that means I have about 2 1/2 months of studying left from right now till taking the written. That’s not very long!
We’ll tentatively say June 15th, but I have a feeling it’ll be more like July 15th for the written. Who knows <shrug>