[j-nsp] 13 Tips for Passing Juniper Lab Tests

[Richard A Steenbergen]

On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 01:14:52PM -0600, Chris Grundemann wrote:
> New blog post that folks on this list might find interesting / worth
> reading:  http://bit.ly/43A7K (13 Tips for Passing Juniper Lab Tests)
> ~Chris

Dude, really? Study a lot, read the question thoroughly, manage your
time carefully? What kind of pussy advice is this? :) I think you forgot
"eat a balanced breakfast" and "sharpen your #2 pencil". :) Only like
20% of the book it actually on the exam, the only thing studying left me
with was a hurt liver from all the drinking it took to get that QoS crap
out of my head afterwards.

Seriously though, your best advice is item #1, have some experience. If
you're new to this but you think you want to be a JNCIE, you will be
infinitely better served by getting a job at a company with a decent
network than you will be by putting 1000 olives in your basement and
memorizing the handful of artificial scenerios that they were able to
squeeze into an 8 hour lab. And probably have a lot more money at the 
end of the day too.

I once had a quad CCIE customer who intentionally configured his router
to leak a full table from their other transit provider to me, because
(and I really wish I was joking here) "why does it matter, your
prefix-list will catch it anyways". Alas they haven't figured out a
comprehensive way to test for stupid yet. :)

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