It might seem self-explanatory that you need to start at the bottom and work your way up, i.e. A then B then C then D, however over the years we???ve seen so many CCIE candidates try to shortcut this process and try to go from A directly to D. Traditionally these are the candidates that end up taking the lab exam 5, 6, 7 times before passing, essentially trying to brute force their way through the