Week 1 Down…??? to Go
For various reason, which for now will remain a mystery, a I lost a lot of motivation this week, but still managed to get in a decent chunk of studying. Instead of updating several sources, I’ve made my time tracking sheet available as a Google doc. This link will take you to the public spreadsheet I am using to keep track of my hours.
Friday and Saturday were my weak days, which both tie in to the lack of motivation. I managed to get back into the game on Sunday with a solid 4+ hours, but I would’ve liked to do more. The past week has been dedicated to spanning tree, and all of its various incarnations. I forgot how much I liked studying spanning tree…or maybe I should say that I’ve come to like spanning tree more as time goes on. This coming week will be focused on VLANs and VTP, along with Etherchannel.
I’m going to try this week to see if I can get my company to cover the cost of ordering the INE CCIE 2.0 study package. The only thing I need to figure out is if they are going to have a CCIE R&S v4 package out soon. I want to dive in and get started, but don’t want to buy the v3 package if its going to be updated soon.
Anyhow, hopefully this week I can stay focused a bit more. I think I’ve managed to get myself out of the funk that I was in, but we’ll see how the week plays out.
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August 31, 2009 at 4:53 pm
I, too, have also started studying for the CCIE-RS. I have also organized some of my studying, but mainly by mapping out what “needs” to be studied. At ~11,802 pages of reading on the “Book list” and 24,206 pages in the 12.4(T) IOS Configuration guide – I’m having a hard time break down what is “worth” studying and what is not (37,008 pages at 50 pages per day == 2 years 10 days of reading. Non-stop.) I like your public google doc, organizing your time.
I don’t know if you have signed up/taken the v4.0 beta yet. I’m planning on taking it this Wed (9/2/2009) in order to weed out material.
September 24, 2009 at 6:53 am
I am totally stealing your sheet. I created one similar but I like your layout and tracking better.