From: Price, Jamie (jprice@xxxxxxxxxxx)
Date: Wed Sep 27 2000 - 22:06:40 GMT-3
Title: RE: ECP1 vs book " BRS by Caslow"
I have not attended ECP1 but I have no doubt that it is an excellent
workshop. Reports from all others is that its one of the best
available - long waiting list though I hear.
My opinion though....because attaining certification is such a long
process you should really make sure that you have secured yourself
access to a lab for an extended amount of time first before you
consider courses - be it a lab of routers at work or a home lab. In
my mind THAT is the #1 priority. Only at that point would I consider
workshops simply due to the fact that once you leave what have you
got??? A great insight but nowhere to practice it. Besides - if you
do the workshop what happens if you cant get into the lab exam for
another 3 months - if you dont have constant access to a lab of your
own then its hard to retain all that knowledge.
Just my thoughts.
Jamie
-----Original Message-----
From: Devinder Singh [mailto:devinder@collabria.com]
Sent: Wednesday, September 27, 2000 6:51 PM
To: 'ccielab@groupstudy.com'
Subject: ECP1 vs book " BRS by Caslow"
Hello all..
I need advise from fellow list members regd the famous ECP1 course vs
the
book "Bridges Routers and Switches" by Caslow. They seem to have same
course content. I have gone through that book 2-3 times and
understand it
reasonably well (except for Non-IP protocols). Is it still worth
attending
ECP1 course?? It is $3600, which is quite expensive for me. Also, do
they
cover topics like VOIP, VPN and multicast etc which are part of lab
exam
but not covered in book??
Another suggestion which I got was, that instead of spending $3600,
it is
better to buy 3 Routers and build my own lab (which I don't have right
now)
and practice on them since I have alreday gone through the book.
What is your suggestion ???.
Thanks
Devin
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