On May 25 this year, I took the CCIE Routing and Switching laboratory exam of Cisco for the third time and finally passed it. It is really difficult to pass CCIE certification. Many people often need more than two years to pass it. It takes more time than I have expected. Since so many IT professionals are interested in this certification, I will introduce the whole process of CCIE certification in detail in this article, hoping to help those who want to become CCIE experts.
An Introduction of CCIE certification program: The following is a brief background introduction to Cisco Certified Internetwork Expert CCIE certification. CCIE certification consists of two parts. The first part is a written exam / computer exam, the second part is a lab exam, and the latter part is extremely difficult. I heard that the average person has to take the lab exam twice to pass it. Almost no one can pass it in the first time, and most people can’t pass it even in the second time.
At first, I thought that CCIE certification might be similar to MCSE + I, CCNA, CCNP and SCSA certification. Now of course I know I’m wrong. Before May 2000, I had never heard of CCIE certification. Later, because I contacted Cisco products in my work, and because I met an old friend working in Cisco who was a CCIE, I thought, “I should also get a CCIE certificate.” The old friend told me that he had taken the exam twice before he got the certificate. The exam was very difficult. I was a little surprised to hear that because he was a Cisco employee and had been working as a system engineer in this company for many years. How could he find it difficult?
I had been dealing with LAN / WAN products for six years before I passed the CCNA certification exam in June 2000. In January 2001, I obtained the CCNP and CCDA certificates, and then passed the CCIE written exam in April of that year. Then, in August of the same year, I took the CCIE lab exam held in Sao Paulo, Brazil (the main reason for taking the exam abroad is that the waiting time in the United States is too long).
The first time when I took the lab exam, I had no idea of the difficulty and complexity of the exam. However, although I failed in the exam, I had calculated experience after all. During the two-day exam, the examiner sat next to me to check the items I did wrong on the first day. Later, I found that the CCIE lab exam time was reduced to one day from October 2001.
The lab exam is cruel but fair. My strategy was to take some time to read the entire experimental instructions and then write down how I completed the tasks and the score of each task. I also drew a picture for use in the laboratory. I asked the examiner for more paper in the first 30 minutes. The examiner helped me a lot in the exam. He answered the questions he could answer and was very polite when he said he could not answer.
On Tuesday morning, I got the exam result notice. Ah, when I saw the words “You passed the exam”, I felt great. Now I have become a CCIE, with the number of 9369
A great exam resource is the Groupstudy CCIE forum. In addition, CCIE # 8726 also gave me good suggestions. He said, “The skills for passing the exam are making comprehensive preparation, focusing on the experiment, enjoying the exam, knowing everything and watching a movie to relax before the exam.” CCIE # 9340 points out that “CCIE laboratory exam is a marathon rather than a sprint.” I have these suggestions in mind. It seems that listening to them has finally paid off.
