From: Jonathan R. Charles (jrcdehc@ameritech.net)
Date: Thu Sep 23 2004 - 02:35:38 GMT-3
OK, bought the book, and noticed something very odd.
The scenarios in this book are 20 times harder than the actual lab was a
year ago.
Did Cisco make the CCIE lab 20 times harder in the last year?
Some of the more obscure stuff, like DLSW, Voice, and others are tested (in
the book) at a level I would consider so high as to require there own CCIE
lab.
For those who have taken the lab recently, is this book a good reflection of
the real lab today?
Or, is it much more difficult to ensure you are prepared for the real thing?
(some of the areas, like OSPF and EIGRP are actually easier than what I
experienced on the actual lab).
Jonathan
For example, lab 2 has a voice question that involves something called 'hoot
and holler' whereby the routers use a multicast address for voice, and a
VIF, and a virtual template.
It is by far the most complex thing I have ever seen, and I have been doing
this awhile.. (what really annoyed me was the VIF interface, which I had
never heard of).
Also, virtual templates are usually used for PPP, yet they are used here,
with no PPP, and from what I can tell do nothing.
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