Well, work has been crazy. I deal with anything ranging from Checkpoint firewalls, to Juniper SRX’s, to Cisco 9k’s, and all sorts of stuff in between. It’s great experience, but I’m trying to stay focused on the cisco stuff, so studying has been hard. That aside, I drew up a study plan today for the written…
I’m taking somewhat of a different approach with the written. While I absolutely appreciate the wealth of information contained in books, the real world is where I make my money, and that means getting my hands dirty (not literally) and into some config. I plan on pretty much flying through the written material as quickly as possible- picking up the key points (ie: things that can come bite you in the ass during your config studies), and leaving anything I deem not important behind.
The main reason behind this is, nobody can learn everything. If I force myself to study book after book after book, I’ll never get the CCIE. It’s much easier for me to sit down and spend hours troubleshooting a problem, or working on learning new technologies. If reading is a part of that, that’s fine.
So, I’m giving myself two months and some change at the LATEST. That means, if you read this after Oct 15th, 2011- and I don’t have my CCIE written…feel free to punch me in the mouth if you see me.
Mike
P.S. If, by some reason I don’t pass it by Oct 15th, and someone really does punch me after reading this, I’ll be really pissed at them.
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