CCIE Lab Preparation My personal path and Recommendations

Well this post will be in two parts. The smaller first part will detail what I
did to prepare for the lab.

And the in second part, I will detail what I think is the best way of preparing
for the lab, based on personal experience and problems I had along the way. In
short, if I had to prepare for the lab all over again, the path I’d take will be
in the recommendations J



My preparation path:

Realistic Exams Question and Answers with explanations

Testkingdom’s Advance Technology actual Preparation material and vol 2 (68 labs)



Q & A with explanations not required:

After preparation from testkingdom.com
ccie written exams bundle and ccie lab no Q & A with explanations is needed
each and every topic is very very



I started my journey last year and started working on written and lab
simultaneously.



I cleared the written exam in March, and then started concentrating on the lab.



Even before that my method was to read through DOC cd and make small labs to
understand a technology and feature using dynamips. By the time I study from
Testkingdom’s Q & A with explanations in April, I had finished first 68 labs.



After the Q & A with explanations I concentrated on Testkingdom’s Preparation
Material and completed it cover to cover and did some of the IEWB labs over and
over again till the lab date.



I followed this path, but will I do the same if I have to do everything all over
again? No, I will change the methodology and hence my recommended preparation
method is as follows.



Recommendations:

Assuming you have cleared your written exam what should be your next step.



Personally I think, you should start with focusing on individual technology.



For that I recommend Testkingdom’s Advance Technology Preparation Material. His
philosophy is to take a technology, make small labs about every feature and then
beat it to death. When you are finished with his Preparation Material, you have
typed in 95% of commands you need to know and practiced 95% of all features that
can show up.



The figure 95% is estimation, and Testkingdom is continuously updating his
Preparation Materials and you can instant download for latest updates for 12
months absolutely free.



Now, I am also very satisfied with IE Preparation Materials, and IE is reshaping
their Vol 1 technology labs according to same philosophy. Up till now, those are
in Beta Phase. So at the moment, the only deep technology Preparation Material
that I know of is Testkingdom’s.



I did attend Testkingdom’s Q & A with explanations and I have only good things
to say about it. I chose it because it was the cheapest, but the 5 day Q & A
with explanations was really informative and a great experience. Once again, I
didn’t attend other vendors’ Q & A with explanations so I cannot compare. But
from what I heard, everyone praises both IE and IPexpert Q & A with explanations
as well. So I’ll also recommend Testkingdom’s Q & A with explanations to all
readers.



After that, you should start with full scale labs. I only tried IE first 10 labs
and I was really happy with those. I didn’t try any other vendor for full scale
labs so I cannot comment on those. I would recommend those to all readers as
well.



In this way, by doing Testkingdom;s ccie
lab first, you learn to do almost everything you need to, independently. And
with full scale labs, you improve your speed, stamina and learn how to approach
a full scale lab and get a very good idea about how technologies interact with
each other.



I hope this post is useful for readers of this article readers.