From: Carnevale, Jason (jcarnevale@xxxxxxxxxxx)
Date: Sun Nov 04 2001 - 22:08:18 GMT-3
Hey folks,
I have noticed a lot of posts about ECP I and II, just thought you might
want to know that MentorTech is no more, they fired all their teachers a
week ago. The website is still up but they are no more.
I know that Bruce Caslow and Val Pavlichenko started a company in Reston, VA
for CCIE prep. I am at a loss for the website but if you are interested I
can get the URL tomorrow and post it to the group.
I also just got back a few days ago from Halifax from taking my lab. Got my
butt kicked!! No problem just gonna revamp my study efforts and try again. I
figured I would post what I did to prep so that people can learn from my
mistakes and in case someone has suggestions for study approaches that I
should have done.
so here it is:
read the following books:
Routing TCP/IP Vol I
Routing TCP/IP Vol II
Internet Routing Archetectures
Cisco Routers for Bridging DSLW+ and Desktop protocols
Routers, Bridges and Switches for CCIEs
Advanced IP Routing in Cisco Networks
Cisco LAN Switching
Internetwork Handbook
TCP/IP illustrated
Inside Cisco IOS
Various RFCs
Took the following classes:
OSPF/BGP workshop
Campus ATM
ECP1
I worked through all the CCbootcamp labs (rented rack time from them as
well)
set up a small home lab and worked on labs for:
All igps
ipsec
dlsw
filtering (access-lists)
bgp
ipx
frame-relay
isdn (ran line to my house)
token ring
ntp
dhcp
ppp
and several others
created 30 focused labs for the above topics
I work for an ISP so I had day to day experience with all the above except
ipx and dlsw.
I also used an 8 router lab at work (overall probably did 500 hours of labs)
I felt real good with the ccbootcamp labs, was able to configure most of
them in 4 - 6 hours.
apparently none of this was enough. I think I am going to get the IOS 12.0
books and work through those and continue doing labs. I am also planning to
do focused study on protocols so I can learn the ins and outs of the
protocol, basically take the ECP1 spot the issue approach, I will then dump
this into a folder so that I can review it in the final weeks before my next
attempt.
All in all this is a great certification, the new test format is hard and
should keep the reputation of the lab where it has always been. I look
forward to my next attempt.
Jason Carnevale
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