From: Michael Miller (ihatecisco@att.net)
Date: Sun Oct 19 2003 - 04:12:04 GMT-3
i would look for the book that parkhurst put out on multicast. I was lucky
enough to run across this book at a compusa where it was marked down!!! what
luck. There is that other cisco press book that has some good stuff in it.
no short cuts though. ;-)
----- Original Message -----
From: "ccie2be" <ccie2be@nyc.rr.com>
To: "Jason Viera" <jasonviera@avenuecable.com>; <ccielab@groupstudy.com>
Sent: Thursday, October 16, 2003 8:02 PM
Subject: Re: Mcast on the Lab
> Hi Jason,
>
> 1st of all, it's not a stupid question. I'm sure most everybody on GS
would
> like a definitive answer to the question you asked. However, anyone who
could
> give you a definitive answer and did would be violating the nda.
>
> So, here's how I think about it. Multicast, itself, is not a core topic,
> therefore the number of points assigned to it will be relatively small -
my
> guess is somewhere between 4 and 6 points. Also, you should remind
yourself
> every now and then that unlike some other topics like frame relay, for
> example, any points lost on multicast won't cause the loss of points on
any
> other topic.
>
> So, given the number of points assigned to multicast, some of which will
be
> assigned to the "core" multicast topics you've already mentioned, how many
> points does that leave for the "non-core" multicast topics? Not many. So,
> therefore, the question you're asking can be restated as, "How much time
> should I allocate to non-core multicast topics that, at most, are worth
only a
> few points of the test score and might not be assigned any points?"
>
> Another thing I would keep in mind is the issue of opportunity cost, in
other
> words, how many points could you have avoided losing on core topics if the
> time you spent on the various non-core multicast topics were instead spent
> practicing the core topics? I don't know about you, but for me, my brain
is
> like a leaky bucket - if a time A, I have perfect knowledge of OSPF or
BGP,
> if I spend several weeks studying other topics and it's now time B, I
don't
> have perfect knowledge anymore of OSPF of BGP.
>
> I suspect that the best answer anyone can provide you is that this is a
> decision you have to make for yourself. And, of course, none of us really
> know what specific topics or points for that topic will be on the exam.
> Theoretically, it's possible that Cisco will have 15 points assigned to
MSDP
> and SSM on the particular test you take.
>
> HTH, dt
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Jason Viera" <jasonviera@avenuecable.com>
> To: <ccielab@groupstudy.com>
> Sent: Thursday, October 16, 2003 5:55 PM
> Subject: Mcast on the Lab
>
>
> > I hate asking stupid questions along these lines since we all know that
> > anything is fair game in the CCIE lab, but would anyone like to
elaborate
> on
> > which aspects of mcast I should study. Obviously items like PIM sparse
and
> > dense mode as well as IGMP, Auto-rp and BSR should be known thoroughly,
but
> > what about MSDP(Anycast RP), Bidirectional PIM, SSM, PGM, UDLR and so
> on.....
> > Obviously there are very few shortcuts when it some to studying for this
> > beast, but some topics definitely carry more weight then others, any
> comments
> > would be greatly appreciated!!!
> > TIA, Jason
> >
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