CCIE - First Lab Attempt Experience

Introduction to CCIE:

If you want to become a CCIE certified you will have to pass a written exam, which you could give at any one of hundreds of testing centers across the globe. Then after is the time for the Lab Exam. The testing centers of Cisco Systems have limited seats available, and which is going to depend on where you are present, it could be tricky to get the seats.

Journey Begins:

Instead of thinking about any else stuff of my life, I had to schedule my first attempt of a lab for this week. I have always known that it was going to a bit tight to get ready by this time, but then I thought I could just about do it. I wasn’t doing any hands-on work with the Cisco equipment these days, so all the practice that I have to get is in my time, on my dime. I’ve mostly been using training materials provided by the SPOTO CCIE Club in my study program. These give me some formation about my work from, as I was on the verge of covering the enormous range of topics which were covered in CCIE Routing and Switching these days.

Hard Work Will Pay:

I have to spend almost each and every night either reading or practicing the scenarios on rented routers and switches. One whole weekend day is taken up while practicing with lab scenarios. When I’m driving usually what I’m listening to be the audio lectures filled in my mobile. Some people may be able to keep track of the total hours they spend studying but I don’t.  I really don’t know how much time I have spent on learning, but one thing I can say that I have spent lots and lots of my time.

Later I went to the study center of SPOTO to have the hands-on lab experience. I started working my way through the configuration module. I could understand all the core stuff pretty well, but the only enemy was the time. After passing a couple of hours, I realized I just was not going fast enough. I also got tripped up by certain deliberate mistakes that Cisco had inserted. I was always prepared for a misconfiguration, for what I wasn’t ready was for something was the additional stuff that would actively break things.

I worked with numerous ways through the rest of the items. Two of them were quite complex, but alcove topic, and would be requiring a huge amount of work for the marks. They were dependent on each other, so I chose to skip those questions, as they aren’t going to affect anything else. I took too long for configuring things, and I didn’t have much time left to properly verify everything, other than just full connectivity.

My Score Report:

The next morning, I got my score report. I have cleared successfully the troubleshooting section, which proves to be quite trippy for most candidates, but failed the configuration section. Clearly, it proved that I’d made a few silly mistakes along the way because I lost too many points to pass.  But thank god it was the stimulation program of the SPOTO CCIE Club, or I would have just lost lots of money. Next, I worked hard and when the time came for the real exam, I was ready to take it on.

Conclusion:

I would never have got any idea of my weak points if I haven’t joined the SPOTO Club. Their hands-on practice and stimulation programs helped me quite a lot and I was able to gain success in the CCIE Certification and that too in the first attempt. All thanks to SPOTO CCIE Club.