From: cacca mucca (caccamucca@hotmail.com)
Date: Thu Mar 16 2006 - 22:44:50 GMT-3
Hi Bill,
Now, everyone's experience will be different, I'll give you mine.
I took the CyscoExpert course for 10 days last year, 120 hours session.
I was not prepared for the lab, did some studying on my own, not enough
however. Took the bootcamp for 10 days and flew to take the lab and did not
pass.
If I had to do it all over again, I'd put the $5000 I spent toward more lab
rentals and take the lab assessment tests by DOiT and InternetworkExpert. I
don't recall what it costs, somewhere in the neighborhood of $250 I think,
is a lot cheaper and you get feedbacks from the graders.
CyscoExpert is great if one lives in Chicago and able to purchase the
Saturdays and Sundays over multiple months. This not only gets you commited
on weekends, you can look up and research the problem you were working on
during one of your weekend sessions during the week and try them out on the
rental or your home lab and then go back and tackle the problem next
weekend's session.
Again, this is my opinion.
Hope my message came across okay, since I'm super tired from a hard days
work and was dosing off on the couch before typing out this email.
Good luck.
>From: Bill.McKenzie@bisys.com
>Reply-To: Bill.McKenzie@bisys.com
>To: ccielab@groupstudy.com
>Subject: CyscoExpert - ?
>Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2006 07:18:32 -0500
>
>Well, I went down in a blaze of glory for the second time on March 13th. My
>first attempt was last September (old format) and if you look at my scores
>, it looks like I actually did better on that attempt than I did the
>second one. (3 months of study first attempt - 6 months this time).
>
>Anyway, I was looking into CyscoExpert for some training before I tackle
>the lab again in May and was wondering if anyone that has been there could
>email me off-line and tell me their experiences with them?
>
>I don't believe it's my knowledge that's failing me (or at least I'd like
>to believe it). It's my lack of being able to decipher the requirements. I
>wasted A LOT of time on trying to figure out some things.
>
>Any help is greatly appreciated.
>
>Thanks,
>Bill McKenzie
>Network Support
>BISYS Fund Services
>Work: 614.428.3293
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