CCIE R&S Documentation Usage - Help Guide for CCIE Beginners

So today I am just trying to help the CCIE beginners to browse Documentation more effectively. In my opinion, only if you are very familiar and confident in doc usage, can you win in lab at first attempt. As you know even if you skip one task in a subsection you will lose marks for the entire subsection.

My study method was like this (I used almost all well known materials for CCIE ). CBT > COD > Cisco Press Books > Blog > Cisco DOC among all DOC is most accurate and very useful for Exam and is a Live Problem solver!! For Exam you have to notice where exactly each blueprint topic is situated in DOC. If you try to study things directly from Doc you will automatically become familiar with it. My own way to browse documentation is like this, for routing topics (I will explain way to switch topics later).
This is the starting of Documentation
http://cisco.com/cisco/web/psa/default.htmlProducts > Cisco IOS and NX-OS Software > Cisco IOS > Cisco IOS Software Release 12.4 Family > Cisco IOS Software Releases 12.4 T. (click)here you will get a new page. Two Main and Important link here is "Configuration Guides" & "Command References". Configuration_guide explain things in detail with appropriate examples (very good stuff). We can browse Command_References with topic wise commands, here also you can find some example configurations.

Blue print topics mainly on
IPCisco IOS IP Addressing Services Configuration Guide, Release 12.4T
Cisco IOS IP Application Services Configuration Guide, Release 12.4T
Cisco IOS IP Multicast Configuration Guide, Release 12.4T
Cisco IOS IP Routing Protocols Configuration Guide, Release 12.4T
Cisco IOS IPv6 Configuration Guide, Release 12.4T

Network Management
Cisco IOS IP SLAs Configuration Guide, Release 12.4T
Cisco IOS Network Management Configuration Guide, Release 12.4T

QoS
Cisco IOS Quality of Service Solutions Configuration Guide, Release 12.4T

Security and VPN
Cisco IOS Security Configuration Guide: Securing the Data Plane, Release 12.4T
Cisco IOS Security Configuration Guide: Securing User Services, Release 12.4T

WAN
Cisco IOS Wide-Area Networking Configuration Guide, Release 12.4T
You can open all these in various tabs and search for Blueprint topics. Later I will help you to find out blueprint topics from these pages.

Reneesh A
CCIE Faculty
IPSR Calicut