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Hello everyone
As I am not even close to a native language speaker, so apologies to my English in advance
I receive many questions from people asking me, what's my secret of passing all these exams and give them some advice
Well, of course there's a lot of efforts and time spent but there's also much more then just that
Earlier this year, I met a great guy (Ramses Smeyers) at one of Cisco JTA events who said that it's OK if you have one or two CCIEs, but if you have more, there's gotta be something wrong with you
And he's right, there's something wrong with me and other multiCCIE people out there
It can be addiction, competition, just lots of free time, or something else
In any case it makes these people unusual and attracts attention to those who have just started their journey to CCIE/JNCIE/RHCE or any other valuable certification on the market. Some newbies are thinking that it's something unbelievable and only the chosen ones can make it. But I can tell you it is NOT true as everybody can do this. Especially everybody can be trained to pass all these exams. All you need is some patience, willing to pass and sometime a proper guidance
Let me unveil the secret that is bugging many candidates. Let's call it secret sauce which is made of several ingredients
Ingredient #1 - Time management
I would say that is first and the most important one. You can learn patience, sleep less, earn all the money, but it's always 24 hour in a day no matter what
Work is time consuming, sleep is time consuming, family and friends, if any, are time consuming, hobbies is time consuming, essential and natural needs, well, everything needs some time to spend
So that's really important to optimize your schedule in order to make your preparation more efficient
Ingredient #2- Patience
I know it might sound stupid but I think that patience is next top most important skill that every candidate have to possess in order to successfully pass the exam. Panicking never helps. When you are calm, you can think positive, rationally and make less mistakes
GO and find your Zen and you will never regret having it
Ingredient #3 - Power of two
Do not underestimate power of group studies! That's a very powerful tool! It saves not only your time, but money as well. I remember that group studies helped me tremendously when I was preparing for my CCIE/CCDE exams. It's hard to find proper people as many of them passively waiting for something and don't want to make any effort, others are out of your schedule, the rest of them are not serious about it
So my advice, spend some time and find at least 2-3 proper study buddies who you feel certain about and are comfortable with
The last and most important ingredient - Awareness
When I say awareness, I mean be ready for what exactly you will face on your exam. Be aware of diagrams, questions, tricks and pitfalls
How? Well, let's be honest, nobody wants to take their exam more than once as each and every attempt takes your time and money which you could spend much more effective, right? Each and every fail is killing your desire to go for it and you just want to give up, get drunk and just move on. So we'd better be ready for it
I know, there's NDA and everything, but Cisco, Juniper and all other vendors are well aware of dumpers. Yes, there're well aware of those who just cram and pass their exams so they develop new strategies, create new content, implement anti-dump techniques and make it much harder to pass
Though they want to make their exams to be equal for everybody, it's not possible as many candidates are way ahead of the others because they have dumps (lab questions, lab diagram, initial configs, injected faults, etc.) and others do not
Those who don't have dumps need to attend exam 2-3-4 times in order to build their own stuff. Or they can just buy it from other sources (You can always google for it if you are interested). So unfortunately, even true candidates who have all the required skills and experience in order to pass lab are end up buying dumps...
e.g. We can not get an official statistics on that, but based on my experience, 95% of current blueprint CCIEs passed their exam using dumps. How do you like it
We can talk forever about it, so back to the main point. Be aware of the exam content - and that's up to you which way to go
Post Scriptum
I did not mention anything about lab equipment or trainings intentionally
Post Post Scriptum
If you liked it or want me to elaborate on some particular topic, just leave a comment
Denis Zuev 2xJNCIE/6xCCIE/CCDE
