From: Tighe Kuykendall (tighe@buoy.net)
Date: Thu Mar 01 2007 - 11:57:42 ART
I only have experience with Internetwork Expert's CoD, but I have to say one of the valuable things someone can gain from these is troubleshooting in the more complex scenarios. Both of the Brians (no offense) do a good job at breaking their lab setup and then take you through troubleshooting to find the problem. Planned or not, it works well in the discussion. It's not just "give this command, that command, and poof it works". It's more like "give this command, that command, umm... it's not working... Let's verify then debug".
Personally, I learned a lot from their CoD series.
Tighe
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Tighe Kuykendall
tighe@buoy.net
> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: RE: Need advice on Internetwork Expert COD
> From: "Brian Dennis" <bdennis@internetworkexpert.com>
> Date: Thu, March 01, 2007 1:43 am
> To: "Michael Zuo" <mzuo@ixiacom.com>, <ccielab@groupstudy.com>
>
> As far as CoDs go make sure that you are comparing apples to apples.
> Our CoD is roughly two weeks of class covering the tougher and often
> misunderstood portions of the technologies/topics covered in the lab.
> In addition to the standard topics (i.e. BGP, Route Redistribution, IP
> Services, etc) we cover lab strategy and preparation techniques. In our
> CoD we do not attempt to regurgitate information that you can read in
> any off the shelf Cisco Press book. Also you can always "upgrade" your
> CoD to the live online version for only $995 or even the onsite version
> for only $1295.
>
> I agree with what Scott Morris said about the live classes. Having the
> ability to ask questions during class is great and we take this to the
> next level with our new online class software. We now have a dedicated
> moderator (i.e. myself or Brian McGahan) to answer questions during
> class. This means you can ask as many questions as you would like
> without worrying about interrupting the rest of the class. By default
> all student questions are only sent to the moderator. If the question
> is relevant to the whole class the moderate will "release" the question
> and answer to everyone. On the flipside you do not have to worry about
> anyone else slowing down the class by asking too many questions or
> questions that you already know the answer to. This way it's almost
> like getting a custom one-on-one style class. You can not get this
> experience in a class with only a single instructor (live onsite or live
> online).
>
> Good Luck!
>
> Brian Dennis, CCIE4 #2210 (R&S/ISP-Dial/Security/SP)
> bdennis@internetworkexpert.com
>
> Internetwork Expert, Inc.
> http://www.InternetworkExpert.com
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> Direct: 775-745-6404 (Outside the US and Canada)
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: nobody@groupstudy.com [mailto:nobody@groupstudy.com] On Behalf Of
> Michael Zuo
> Sent: Wednesday, February 28, 2007 5:42 PM
> To: ccielab@groupstudy.com
> Subject: Need advice on Internetwork Expert COD
>
> hi there,
>
> i need some advice on whether to purchase the COD. i already know the
> basic knowledge for most of blue print topics and am comfortable
> configuring them on routers/switches. there are some topics i have not
> "clicked" yet and want some structured insight into them to piece all
> the little bits of knowledge that i have all together. is the COD a
> good approach to do that? is there any alternatives to consider?
>
> thanks
>
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