From: Tim (ccie2be@nyc.rr.com)
Date: Thu Jan 19 2006 - 12:11:38 GMT-3
Nick,
Just in case you weren't aware, I thought I'd warn you about how difficult
the QoS portion of lab can be.
I had thoroughly studied all the printed QoS sources of info and I strongly
agree that the Wendall Odom book, DQoS, is the best book on the topic
although a couple other QoS Cisco Press titles are also very good.
However, you shouldn't expect those resources to be sufficient to prepare
you for that part of the lab. I know a Cisco Instructor who teaches QoS,
and, obviously knows QoS really well who still got a very low score for the
QoS portion of the lab. I also knew QoS extremely well but still scored
poorly in the QoS section before I passed the lab. So, trust me, when I
tell you you need to actually get a great deal of hands-on implementing QoS.
For that you can do a couple of things --
a) You can do the QoS portion of the various 3rd party practice labs
workbooks e.g. Internetwork Expert or Netmasters.
b) You can go through the Odom book and others and try every example,
make up your own problems, and make sure you know how to verify your config
is correct.
Also, make sure you don't overlook the legacy techniques such as custom
queueing, priority queueing, etc., as Cisco likes to keep all the ccie
candidates on their toes.
There's one other resource that you should use extensively -- The GS
archives. Over the past year, GS has benefited tremendously from the
participation of a few people that are brilliant in the area of QoS. So,
look for the posts of Simon Hart, Chris Lewis and Brian McGahan. There are
others but these 3 stand out. And, of course, make sure you read every post
from Scott Morris.
HTH, Tim
-----Original Message-----
From: nobody@groupstudy.com [mailto:nobody@groupstudy.com] On Behalf Of Nick
Griffin
Sent: Thursday, January 19, 2006 12:35 AM
To: ccielab@groupstudy.com
Subject: QoS in the Lab
If people on the list had to pick a "best source" or "sources" as it
relates to QoS configurations and general education in relation to the
R/S lab, what are some recommendations? There's a lot of information out
there, I'm just curious as to what's worked best for members of the
group with this broad topic?
TIA
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