CCIE Lab Strategy

Anyone who has passed the lab, or even taken the lab can tell you that one of the absolute necessary essentials to success is a plan of attack. The only way to approach the daunting beast is to try to conquer it in sections. And the way that you order those sections is something that you can experiment with in the beginning but as you approach the lab you should stick with your plan. Even if you decide to revise your strategy after your attempt, the lab is no place to second guess your tactics. Undoubtedly the lab will throw you far faster curve balls than Roger Clemens could ever produce but those have to be the things that you you build into your plan by being 150% proficient in the things that you KNOW will be in the lab. You can look at the blueprint and be confident about 50% of the crap that they will throw at you. Even if something in the lab throws you off and makes you question your plan, STICK TO IT! No one flys by the seat of their of pants in this test. If one of the many distractions in the test make you question that, hold true to the months of prior sacrifice that got you to that point and press forward!