Here, you’ll find a record of my SP track study activities.  I have a few reasons for sharing this info.  First, it’ll help me to stay motivated.  I can’t say that I really want to advertise to the world that I’m a slacker.  So this will help me to keep the books cracked and the lab equipment running and active.

Second, it’ll be a record to see what all went in to earning my CCIE.  The more that people see what exactly goes into earning a CCIE, the less mystery there is to it.  The less mystery, the more people realize that they can do it too.  I know for myself, the more that I read about how others earned their CCIE, the more I believe that I can do it as well.  Hopefully this has the same effect on others.

I’ll be tracking my studying a bit differently than I did for the R&S track.  I won’t be tracking my hours studied, as I’ve found I’m not able to study in nice blocks like I was able to with the R&S.  I have a lot more interruptions.  So I’ll be tracking myself by blueprint topic for the written exam.  I’ll probably do something different when it comes to tracking my lab studying.

Written Exam Study

• Service Provider Network General – Nov 9-11, 2009 (3 days)
• High End Product – Nov 12-13, 2009 (2 days)
• Layer 2 technology – Nov 14-18 (5 days)
• IP – Nov 19-? (anticipating 14 days)