What to expect during the CCIE (for that guy on reddit)

[noshut]

Hey, I'm the reddit guy! Thank you for making this, very helpful to get a taste for the in person exam experience. I appreciate you taking the time to try to address each question rather than skimming through and cherry picking. Good luck on your next attempt! You seem like a very thoughtful, smart, and awesome person.

[talhamaliktm]

Hey Jeremiah, so you mentioned that you're planning to make an upcoming video about preparation and how to prepare exams. Would really appreciate if you take into account
1) What studying is like as a grownup (and not just someone who's in college and the whole environment is built around his studying.
2) Managing the timetable with family, work and exams
3) How to *avoid a burnout* - Important
4) Where the social or extracurricular aspect of life comes into all of this?

Best of luck for your next attempt at the exam!

[patrickoneill]

I'm delighted to see you back!! I'm about to start my CCDE study once I pass my ccnp. And I have been using your videos since my ccna. Thank you for the help you have provided!

[hasankareem]

Thanks for sharing your feed back Jeremiah! You’re inspiring all of us.
Min 44:33 I can see you passing that exam. The confidant and way when you were explaining the doo section tells a lot! You got this man. Looking forward to see your next video.

[techyesplc]

Knowing that you're going to fail is a great tip. I failed the JNCIE-SP and it shocked me to the core how unprepared I was, after months of studying hours a day. The value of certifications has changed recently in my opinion, and the high costs for an expert cert in terms of time, effort, and money need to be carefully weighed versus alternative certification paths that diversify your skill set and greatly broaden the opportunities you have for employment. My failed JNCIE-SP attempt cost me $1600 in test fees alone, and I almost couldn't even take it because you need to be employed by an eligible employer in order to register for the exam. I found out about the employment requirement after I had studied for months, but lucky for me my contract gig made me eligible. Now after my failed attempt I can't even get basic entry to mid level jobs doing something basic and simple like working with a firewall because I wasted all my time trying to be an expert in something that isn't at all in demand instead of pickup up a diversified set of certs that enable me to be hired across multiple domains in technology: security, cloud, development, data, ai ... instead all I have to show for myself is a sloppy youtube channel showing that I failed to learn expert level concepts only relevant to small niches that likely aren't hiring anyway 😵😵‍💫🥴

[Vyperuk]

Totally agree with you about the dumps. When I took the R&S practical the first time it was the v4 syllabus and some of the other people there were openly discussing dumps and asking other candidates if they'd seen the latest ones etc. Took me two attempts, second attempt was right after 5.0 had released so presumably there were no dumps available at that point.

10 years ago it was well worth doing, but I think today people need to think a lot harder about what it will do for them. Back then the exam was almost all about fundamental networking, the fact you were doing it on Cisco was incidental and the knowledge was easily transferable to other vendors. The exam now goes way too far into Cisco specific technologies for my liking.

[NetSecAcademy]

Most anticipated video 👍🏾 thanks for sharing your journey man!

[drbabbers]

Thank you for sharing your experience Jeremiah! Good luck on your next attempt 👍🏻

[Voltan]

I also go into exams (of _any_ kind not just IT related) with the same mindset.

It's NOT a negative mindset. It's called being a _PRAGMATIST_

It's very freeing, to be blunt. What's important is to *Never Give Up* 👍🏿

Channels been highly informative and inspiring!

[FarouqTaj]

Cisco offer CCIE practice labs. Each lab is 4hrs and cost $50 to do. Might be worth looking into it to see if that would have helped. I'm really put off by a certification where candidates will fail first time. I don't see how testing whether you can complete tasks in super quick time without thinking things through prepare you for the working environment. The certification seems to be just a vanity exercise. I'd rather invest my time broadening my skill set and doing something else after the CCNP such as Fortinet security. That said I won't be able to access the CCIE lounge at a Cisco Live event 🙂

[geovannycampos]

Just passed the EI lab in the second attempt, no way I couldve done it in the first try

[chrisnewnham]

Thanks for the video and sharing your experience, it helps all of us on the same journey which hopefully is a small consolation!

Some tips/observations from myself:

- You can open the documentation during design, at least in Brussels we were not stopped from doing so. The proctor also looked over my shoulder several times and saw me doing it. It's actually a good time to get familiar with it, like you say, you're not in a rush. If you need during DOO, you're probably dead though. We WERE banned from using Geany during Design, however.
- Something that I thought whilst in the middle of failing on my second attempt this week, use the pen and paper to write down everything you were not 100% sure on so you can read it just before you walk out of the building.
- I'm guessing that all bricks and mortar lab locations are closed across the whole of August (purely a guess on my part), which does suck. It's time they scaled up the testing, no Covid reasons for keeping it reduced which is causing bottlenecks.

I guess your confident about picking up the v1.1 extra bits then in fairly short order?

[jsmolic]

Nice to see you back! Hope life is good.

[kevinhughes]

Great breakdown thanks for sharing got some of your vids to catchup on lol

[JCiscoSys]

He put out so many new vids!!!! This is great!!

[changwang]

It's a difficult exam, don't feel bad. I'm sure you will pass eventually

[walidsaleh]

Good luck man I am sure you are going to get it next time

[joerockhead]

thanks for sharing your experience. best of luck.

[bignino]

Good to see you’re back! Good luck next time.. Knowing what you know now, which bootcamp/workbook was close to the real thing?

[bimatube]

You went to the Exam expecting to fail, so what to expect? You said to yourself I will fail.