From: Stuart Juggins (sjuggins@cisco.com)
Date: Tue Nov 26 2002 - 07:51:25 GMT-3
Hi Kym,
Thanks for your advice. Fortunately I do have a copy of IPExperts 3.0 so
I'm going to crack on with those labs, and when I get stuck go to the CD
for help.
Many thanks for all who replied, I'll let you know how I get on in Feb :)
-----Original Message-----
From: kym blair [mailto:kymblair@hotmail.com]
Sent: 26 November 2002 10:43
To: sjuggins@cisco.com
Cc: ccielab@groupstudy.com
Subject: Re: Limited time to Study, which topics to cover?
Stuart,
Jennifer's advice is right on; you've read the most important books. There
are other great books (Clark's LAN Switching, Williamson's Multicast,
Parkhurst's BGP-4 and OSPF, Shamim's Troubleshooting, etc.) but if you have
only three months, buy a good set of scenarios (ipexpert.net,
ccbootcamp.com, or maybe hellocomputers.com) and do as many as possible.
IPexpert's workbook starts with about 20 single-topic 3-4 hour labs, then
takes you to about 20 8-hour multi-protocol labs. They cover all the major
topics over and over, and many many of the little topics at least once.
You'll focus on what you need to know. I've heard the new ccbootcamp.com
workbook is similar.
This discussion group is full of good stuff too, but you don't really have
the time to listen to all our talk. You should just scan through the list
when you want a break, but try to pound out at least one 8-hour scenario per
day, plus however many hours it takes to research the areas you don't know.
Try to do your research on the CD rather than on-line. It's slower but it
will pay off on exam day.
HTH, Kym
>From: "Jennifer Bellucci" <Jennifer_bellucci@hotmail.com>
>Reply-To: "Jennifer Bellucci" <Jennifer_bellucci@hotmail.com>
>To: "CCIELAB" <ccielab@groupstudy.com>
>Subject: Re: Limited time to Study, which topics to cover?
>Date: Mon, 25 Nov 2002 21:12:06 -0000
>
>Hello
>
>I think you should concentrate on the core area IGP/BGP, multicast, NAT,
>Frame Relay and kill ISDN (spent ages learning it). ATM, think of it as a
>WAN technology...I was given some good advice when it comes to learning it.
>think of ATM as Frame Relay with a few extra commands and don't expect to
>understand it until you have been through the spectrum. With time (which is
>limited for you) everything about ATM will fall into place.
>DLSW, route-maps and the various types of ACL's...like reflective, extended
>and named are just a few. If you go on CCO and look at the security config
>guide you will see stuff like CBAC, worth having a look at.
>
>One thing you have to be awesome is in 3550 config, pay special attention
>to
>what the switch can do at layer 3 and what protocols are supported...IS-IS
>is not supported (someone correct me if I am wrong and if you do...how in
>the blue hell did you get it to work?)
>
>One thing I think will be growing in the lab is QOS on 3550 and how it
>interacts with a router, they have replaced 2500's with 2600's, which can
>do
>some nifty things.
>
>I think your best friends should be the command guides...my IP Routing book
>is full of dribble stains (who needs sleeping pills when you got these
>books?).
>
>When going through IGP's, try to get OSPF running with a discontinuous area
>0, add another ospf domain, redistribute, add virtual-links, add EIGRP,
>IS-IS and RIPv1/2 and perform mutual redistribution between all of them and
>get rid of all the loop's...use as many different methods to filter the
>routes, route-map, distribute-list...authentication, everything possible.
>Use the tagging features, what can they do and why, when's the best time to
>use them?
>
>You got tons to learn and not alot of time. Sit in front of the routers and
>play...things I remember most are the stuff I learnt by just playing
>around.
>
>Make a timetable and stick to it...need solid discipline, which I lack
>sadly.
>I am not certified yet but not long to go until my first and hopefully last
>attempt.
>
>Mail off-line if you want to chat more.
>
>Jbell
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Stuart Juggins" <sjuggins@cisco.com>
>To: "CCIELAB" <ccielab@groupstudy.com>
>Sent: Monday, November 25, 2002 9:46 AM
>Subject: Limited time to Study, which topics to cover?
>
>
> > Hi All,
> >
> > I am currently scheduled to take my Lab in Brussels on February 28th,
> > unfortunately I cannot move it as my 18 months is up a couple of days
>later.
> > I don't really want to take the written again, and would like to have a
> > crack at the lab to gauge what it's like. What I would like to know, is
> > given that I only have 3 months to study (due to some long term
>illness),
> > which topics should I concentrate on (I'm not expecting to pass, more of
>a
> > recon) I've read Doyle I and some of Doyle II, Halabi, Caslow and some
>of
> > Solie. I'm really looking to do practice now, and if I could nail IGP
>and
> > BGP on the day I would be happy :)
> >
> > Any advice is much appreciated.
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