TIME

Study Time Hours
Last week 33 hours 45 minutes
This week 31 hours 35 minutes
2024 total 97 hours 0 minutes

 

FOCUS

Below are the core focus areas where I endeavour to hit one of the four sections each day. Other work will have been done if additional time becomes available, for example, while commuting or on lunch break at work. Different tasks include but are not limited to, flashcards, interleaving previous labs, reviewing notes, and researching available study materials for upcoming topics and weak areas.

 

| LABBING 
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# Cisco U - SD-WAN Fundamentals: Solution Components and Network Deployment
# Cisco U - SD-WAN Fundamentals: Configuration Management
# Cisco U - SD-WAN Fundamentals: Overlay Routing
# Cisco U - SD-WAN Fundamentals: Policies and QoS 
# Cisco U - SD-WAN Fundamentals: Lab Recaps (5) and Post Assessment 
# INE CCIE R&S ATC: Redistribution Case #1
# INE CCIE R&S ATC: Redistribution Case #2
# INE CCIE R&S ATC: Redistribution Case #3


| ACTIVE RECALL
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# IGP Performance Routing (PfR)
# IGP Troubleshooting Complex Layer 3 Issues
# IGP Troubleshooting Process Methodology
# IGP Troubleshooting Commands and IP Routing Processes
# NetworkAcademy.io SD-WAN: 01. Introduction (Why do we need it)
# NetworkAcademy.io SD-WAN: 01. Introduction (What is it)
# NetworkAcademy.io SD-WAN: 01. Introduction (How does it work)


| READING 
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# Developing IP Multicast Networks (Ch 02. TTL Thresholds)
# Developing IP Multicast Networks (Ch 02. Flood and Prune Behaviour)
# Developing IP Multicast Networks (Ch 02. Grafting)
# Developing IP Multicast Networks (Ch 02. Shared Tree Join and Prune Messages)
# Developing IP Multicast Networks (Ch 03. IGMPv1)
# Developing IP Multicast Networks (Ch 03. IGMPv2)
# Developing IP Multicast Networks (Ch 04. Multimedia Multicast Applications)


| VIDEOS 
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# INE CCIE R&S ATC: Redistribution (IPv4 Route Redistribution Overview)
# INE CCIE R&S ATC: Redistribution (Basic Redistribution Examples)
# INE CCIE R&S ATC: Redistribution (Why Routing Loops Occur)
# INE CCIE R&S ATC: Redistribution (Why Preventing Routing Loops & Feedback)
# INE CCIE R&S ATC: Redistribution (Redistribution Case #1)
# INE CCIE R&S ATC: Redistribution (Redistribution Case #2)
# INE CCIE R&S ATC: Redistribution (Redistribution Case #3)

 

SUMMARY

This week started off relatively slow. I kept oversleeping, and it took me a couple of days to get back into my routine after staying up late for the Boxing on Saturday night.

Despite the slow start, I did manage to add the following to the completed items checklist below:

  • Cisco U - Catalyst SD-WAN Upgrade
  • Cisco U - SD-WAN Operation and Deployment
  • Cisco Press - CCIE Routing and Switching v5.0 Official Cert Guide, Volume 1

The Cisco U SD-WAN Operation and Deployment course was part of Cisco’s RevUp to Recert series, allowing me to earn an additional 12 continuing education credits for free. There were five assisted labs; each one took approximately an hour to spin up and was running newer software than what I have in EVE-NG. The new GUI is cleaner and very similar to DNAC, ISE and Firepower (sorry, Secure Firewall) - which I like.

I made my way through the OCG Volume 1. It’s definitely one of the better Cisco Press books I have read. However, I did not read this in the traditional way which proved to be very time consuming. I incorporated my own spin on the SQ4R study methodology with manual spaced repetition and active recall. It proved to be time consuming and cumbersome but the retention is definitely there. I tried to manage the review intervals with a formula on my ‘master spreadsheet’, which wasn’t efficient; the next time I practice this, I will create a new deck on Anki to save time doing this in a spreadsheet.

Next week, I plan to start Narbik’s highly coveted CCIE Foundation Cisco Press book, and I have signed up for another live event by Russ White on O’Reilly called Modern Network Troubleshooting. Lastly, I am going to build on from the SD-WAN course and go through the Deep Dive content over at NetworkAcademy.io with the content mainly being written I will re-attempt SQ4R using an Anki deck with a custom algorithm to control the spaced repetition and active recall.

 

CHECKLIST

  • 2024-01-07 book Cisco IP Routing: Packet Forwarding and Intra-domain Routing Protocols
  • 2024-01-08 labs INE CCIE R&S Advanced Technology Labs Workbook
  • 2024-01-09 labs INE CCIE R&S Foundation Lab #1
  • 2024-01-11 labs INE CCIE R&S Foundation Lab #2
  • 2024-01-14 labs INE CCIE R&S Foundation Lab #3
  • 2024-01-16 wbnr Cisco U - Catalyst SD-WAN Upgrade
  • 2024-01-17 book CCIE Routing and Switching v5.0 Official Cert Guide, Volume 1
  • 2024-01-18 crse Cisco U - SD-WAN Operation and Deployment
  • 2024-01-19 labs INE CCIE R&S Redistribution Case #1
  • 2024-01-20 labs INE CCIE R&S Redistribution Case #2
  • 2024-01-21 labs INE CCIE R&S Redistribution Case #3