Re: Starting my journey again after three years

From: Anthony Sequeira (asequeira@internetworkexpert.com)
Date: Mon Nov 17 2008 - 16:21:59 ARST


Oh my!

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On Nov 17, 2008, at 1:12 PM, Scott M Vermillion wrote:

> Wiz,
>
> The blueprint for the written changed quite a bit back in the summer
> of '07;
> definitely upgrade your Cisco Press "Certification Guide," which has
> since
> been updated to reflect the new v3.x content.
>
> But I feel this book is week in some key areas (was shocked the
> other day to
> see that the BGP best path selection process was considered by the
> authors
> to be "lengthy" and "outside the scope of this book" - gasp!).
>
> Best,
>
> Scott
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: nobody@groupstudy.com [mailto:nobody@groupstudy.com] On Behalf
> Of Wiz
> Khan
> Sent: Monday, November 17, 2008 8:19 AM
> To: ccielab@groupstudy.com
> Subject: Starting my journey again after three years
>
> Greetings,
>
> I took my first shot at CCIE RS lab exam almost three years ago and
> did not
> pass it. Since then I am working on L4-L7 stuff and kind of away from
> traditional routing and switching world. Now I have decided to go
> back and
> study again. My written is obviously expired. So that will be my
> first step
> now. I am working in Networking for past 10 years. over the course
> of this
> time, I have purchased and studied many cisco press books. Now I
> need to go
> back to these books and start preparing for my written exam. Couple
> of days
> ago, when I took my cisco press books from my shelf (all were dusty)
> and
> started reading, I realize that I still know lots of stuff from
> them, and it
> felt like I will be wasting lots of time going thru these books, I
> really
> need some condensed form so I can quickly brush up my skills. Is any
> one
> aware of any such books?
>
> At my first lab attempt [almost three years ago] I bought IPexpert
> work book
> (version 7 I believe) and its proctor guide. The material was great,
> unfortunately I did not even complete first 5 labs before sitting in
> the
> lab. I still have those books, I am wondering if those are still
> relavent or
> should I buy new work books?
>
> My current employer may be willing to pay for ccie bootcamp. I am
> wondering
> if there are any good ones (for written and lab) in New York city?
>
>
> many thanks
> Wiz
>
>
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