From: joshua lauer (jslauer@hotmail.com)
Date: Sun Jan 29 2006 - 13:28:00 GMT-3
That's totally true,
The material in the cisco press books was sortof out of date, I have all the
ciscopress security books so I guess the only up to date data is in the
cisco authorized courses and I'm not about to take those all over again :)
jl
----- Original Message -----
From: "Church, Chuck" <cchurch@netcogov.com>
To: "joshua lauer" <jslauer@hotmail.com>; <ccielab@groupstudy.com>
Sent: Sunday, January 29, 2006 11:23 AM
Subject: RE: Security written (350-018) / recert
> Thanks, now I feel better. I thought I was losing it for a while ;) I
> guess when you acquire 5 or 6 security companies every year, you end up
> with a lot of potential test questions. A couple questions on the test
> had 3 letter acronyms I'd never heard of. Can't discuss them, nor even
> remember what they were at this point, but I was surprised to find stuff
> that new...
>
>
> Chuck
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: joshua lauer [mailto:jslauer@hotmail.com]
> Sent: Sunday, January 29, 2006 1:20 AM
> To: Church, Chuck; ccielab@groupstudy.com
> Subject: Re: Security written (350-018) / recert
>
> I agree,
>
> that test really sucks.........I thought it was much harder than the R/S
> by
> a long shot, and that was even after being a CCSP for awhile. Another
> test
> which sucks is the optical exam for the SP track, barely passed that one
>
> too...they are getting harder and harder to pass these days.
>
>
> jl
>
>
> Josh Lauer
>
> RHCE, MCSE NT/2000, CCNA, CCDA, CCDP, CCNP, CCSP, CCIP, CISSP, CEH
>
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Church, Chuck" <cchurch@netcogov.com>
> To: <ccielab@groupstudy.com>
> Sent: Sunday, January 29, 2006 1:10 AM
> Subject: Security written (350-018) / recert
>
>
>> Hey all,
>>
>> Maybe a little off-topic, but I squeaked by my recert exam back on
>> Wednesday. I've been thinking about taking the Security lab sooner or
>> later, so I went with that, rather than R&S to recert. I deal with a
>> bunch of security stuff at work plus I've passed some of the CCSP
> tests,
>> so I'd consider it a strong point. Used a couple different Cisco
> press
>> books to prepare (the ones written by Benjamin and Malik, can't
> remember
>> the titles at the moment). The weird part was I thought I was
> breezing
>> through the test, and would probably end up with an 85 or so (like 2
>> years ago when I took the same test). I was really surprised when I
> saw
>> I got a 71! All I can say is it's a tough test that covers a lot of
>> odd topics. At $300 a shot, it's definitely a test you don't want to
>> have to take too many times. The Boson tests for it cover the
> subjects
>> pretty well, might not be a bad idea to give that a shot a couple
> weeks
>> before your scheduled test to see how your preparation is coming
> along.
>> But it doesn't cover all the topics though. Just a heads up in case
>> your expiration date is coming up...
>>
>>
>> Chuck Church
>> Lead Design Engineer
>> CCIE #8776, MCNE, MCSE
>> Netco Government Services - Design & Implementation Team
>> 1210 N. Parker Rd.
>> Greenville, SC 29609
>> Home office: 864-335-9473
>> Cell: 864-266-3978
>> cchurch@netcogov.com
>> PGP key: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x4371A48D
>
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