From: Nigel Taylor (nigel_taylor@hotmail.com)
Date: Sun Oct 06 2002 - 08:32:16 GMT-3
Additionally,
I think one of the more overlooked areas in CCIE
preparation is IOS familiarity and comfort. Many of the offerings which
target CCIE hopefuls do so without any consideration for the audience's
basic understanding and familiarity with the cisco IOS environment.
The thought that someone could be pursuing a CCIE and not be familiar and
comfortable with the IOS seems unrealistic, but with the number of threads
on the discussion of "lab rats" would suggest this is very much the case.
The lab Practice Kit provides this while engaging the user in more complex
scenarios which provides the with a level of confidence to spend much more
time on the rack/equipment. Also, as both Howard and Tom noted the detail
does allow the user to completely follow the author in obtaining/achieving
the objectives.
Nigel
----- Original Message -----
From: "Howard C. Berkowitz" <hcb@gettcomm.com>
To: <ccielab@groupstudy.com>
Sent: Sunday, October 06, 2002 2:07 AM
Subject: Re: McGraw Hill's CCIE Lab Practice Kit: Any Thoughts?
> >"Tom Larus" <tlarus@cox.net> wrote,
>
>
>
> >It is an excellent book for the early stages of CCIE Prep. The wonderful
> >about it is that it includes step-by-step explanations for every task.
No
> >other practice lab that I know of had this kind of detail, and it might
not
> >even be appropriate for more complex, advanced labs to have this kind of
> >detailed explanation. There are a few errors, as with anything, but it
is
> >an outstanding piece of work.
>
> Disclaimer: I was a reviewer for the original Satterlee-Hutnik book.
>
> I find the special strength of their work is tying configuration
> effects to things you will see on show and especially debug commands,
> and even with a protocol analyzer. The latter makes them particularly
> useful to people who already have that sort of troubleshooting
> experience.
>
> >
> >Once you finish these, then you move on to the more complex labs with a
lot
> >more material covered in each one. These are a sort of warm-up for for
the
> >other labs. Like someone else, I remember the BGP lab being very good,
too.
>
> As Tom suggests, they are very detailed, and tend to focus on the
> more hands-on than the conceptual. As such, they complement "problem
> recognition" strategies like Caslow's.
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