From: John Crawford (john.m.crawford@googlemail.com)
Date: Sat Jan 07 2006 - 13:20:42 GMT-3
Hi
Hope this helps anyone considering attending the Heinz Ulm Bootcamp in
Denver, CO. I attended last Nov/Dec. The class runs in a hotel and
uses a VPN connection to Germany. Every student gets their own pod
with 6 routers and a 3550. The routers are a mixture of 2600XMs and
new 2800s.
The format of the class is a short lecture each morning with a wrap up
of common problems/questions from the day before. You are then
expected to continue working on the exercises set. These are pretty
exhaustive and very challenging. Heinz seems to have many years
experience in knowing what questions people need to battle with and he
has built numerous traps into the challenges.
When I went you could choose which challenges you wanted based on
whether you were a pre Jan-01 or post Jan-01 candidate. There was also
additional challenge material if you wanted it and updates promised
for this year.
The hotel meting room is available 24 hours and many of us worked
quite late. You can also work using client VPN from your room. The
equipment remains available for a week after the class.
On the last two days we did 8 hour mock labs. Heinz uses VNC to watch
you while you progress the lab which adds extra pressure and gives you
immediate feedback (sometimes scathing!) which was a great experience.
One nice thing about the class was that each day you were taken out
for lunch to wherever got the majority vote and you could eat/drink as
much as you liked! This was great fun and built a good spirit in the
class. Heinz and a friend also generously took us sightseeing in the
mountains at the weekend which was a real highlight and helped break
up the three weeks well.
It's the only course of this kind I've been on so I don't really know
how to compare it - all I can say is I thought it was great value for
money and helped me enormously.
John
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