From: ieaspirant (ieaspirant@gmail.com)
Date: Fri Mar 21 2008 - 18:03:12 ART
Hi All,
I have a question, which might be rudimentary, response will surely be
appreciated.
My Situation:
Knowledge-level : Passed written last year, due to the work-environment was
involved in other technologies (other than the ones in the R/S). Work for ISP,
so I do do hands-on...
Resources: Have a set-up of routers (low-end) 2501s, No switches. Can do basic
WAN topology as per IE lab.
Question:
I want to plan well for my preparation for the lab, with this in mind & given
the above conditions, which option is quantitatively (given the avg no of
hours, ofcourse, months & days of practise that I'll need) is more logical (as
most of you gentlemen/ women have gone thru this assessment at one point :
A) Investing more $$ ( & yes, helping out the economy....i hope my wife's not
around....) in buying the switches & fixing/ upgrading the existing WAN topo
OR
B) Investing $$ in online rack rentals (which again in a way is helping the
economy....)
How much do the following factors weigh/ matter in each case:
1) Using online to do labs related to switching & ofcourse, during the end,
when i'm ready & need to do full-fledged labs i would go online)
2) Flexibility of doing the practise labs as per my availability & on the fly
3) Being able to do small customized labs
4) For you, which option was financially more logical ?
5) What is a fair estimate to account for reasonable # of practise lab hours
that I'll need (would it be IE's 30 + some-other-vendors 20 labs = 50 lab * <x>
hours...........how much time does/ should 1 lab take (i know, this is a little
subjective, depending upon the level of difficulty & my level of expertise, but
still, if you could avg it out....say, in your case.....)
As I said your opinion would be greatly valued.
Thanks & good luck !!
-an IE aspirant
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