From: Antonio Marfil (tony.marfil@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx)
Date: Wed Mar 24 2004 - 00:14:25 GMT-3
Third time was the charm in RTP yesterday. Just wanted to thank everyone on
the list who answered my dumb questions.
The proctor, Robin, was excellent. We started on time and he clarified a
couple of questions I had. The facilities in RTP are top notch, I love that
free flavored Poland Spring water! No complaints.
Nothing new for me, there is no magic shortcut. I used the usual study
material: The Cisco website, Caslow, Clark, Doyle I and II and Halabi in
addition to some excellent books I don't see mentioned often: George
Sackett's Cisco Router Handbook (shameless plug cause George is my boss),
Parkhurst's BGP-4 Command Reference (every single BGP command with a short
lab) and Lee's Enhanced IP Services for Cisco Networks (IPSec VPN, QOS,
firewall feature set.) Took the now defunct ECP1 course in September and
did as much of the bootcamp labs on my home rack as I could.
Bradshaw Labs (www.bradshawlabs.com) is an EXCELLENT resource for access to
an ISDN simulator, ATM and VoIP. I can't speak highly enough of the service
I received from Jeff.
Last bit of advice would be to not only work on knowing your stuff, but work
on speed and verify every single one of your configs with 'show' commands.
Also, I took Gonzalo Palacio's advice and didn't study at all the night
before, I went to the movies down in RTP and watched Resident Evil. This
really took my mind of the next day's ordeal. In my opinion, cramming the
night before is going to make you more nervous and worse off.
Best of luck to all.
--Regards,
Antonio Marfil, CCIE #9011 Senior Network Engineer NetworX Corporation tony.marfil@networxcorp.com http://www.networxcorp.com --
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