From: Bobby (aggiebob98@yahoo.com)
Date: Wed Jan 28 2009 - 23:47:04 ARST
Let the pissing contest begin!
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On Jan 28, 2009, at 1:21 PM, Brandon Carroll <brandon.j.carroll@gmail.com> wrote:
Personally I have both Internetwork Expert and IPexpert CCIE Security Products. The are both good but IPexperts is more extensive when it comes to Mock Labs. Internetwork Expert has more "mini labs" that are broken up into a big book (Volume 1) with a ton of topologies. The different topologies are frustrating as you may only take 5 minutes to configure 1 minilab and have to wipe it for the next minilabs topology.
Internetwork Expert made an announcement that they were refreshing material. So far they have focused on Routing and Switching while Security has been neglected whereas IPexpert has actually started releasing labs for the new blueprint.
IPexpert is much more active in the online community, Facebook, Online Study List, Twitter, and more, whereas Internetwork Expert is a little more quiet in that arena. I have sent emails to Internetwork Expert only to either wait a few days or to never get a reply. I have emailed IPexpert and within a few minutes either had an email or a phone call from them.
They are both good for the prep, but I have to say that IPexpert is MUCH more attentive to their clients.
You don't have to take my word for it though. However I'm sure you will see a noticeable difference. If you go with both.
Brandon Carroll
On Jan 28, 2009, at 8:23 AM, testing testing123 wrote:
so when who's security materials should i invest in ? who is known
for their security materials ? who does security the best ?
-----Original Message-----
From: nobody@groupstudy.com [mailto:nobody@groupstudy.com] On Behalf
Of Felix Nkansah
Sent: Tuesday, January 27, 2009 9:22 AM
To: Ruhann
Cc: Terry Vinson; Cisco certification
Subject: Re: Bootcamps and Vendors
Also, by saying "InternetworkExperts ... make great products", I
believe he was referring to their product offerings for the R&S track.
Their E2E package for R&S is a must-have for every candidate, if you
ask me.
Sadly, it's difficult to say same about their workbooks for the
Security and SP tracks. I wish they could invest some more time making
those workbooks more student-friendly, like the R&S equivalent.
Agreeably, the ROI on the workbooks for Security and SP wouldn't be as
high as they could expect when compared to R&S, but the quality of the
present offering still detracts from their good works and abilities.
My 2 pesewas!
Felix
r&s, security
On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 3:01 PM, Ruhann <groupstudy@ru.co.za> wrote:
I think you meant to say "You can't go wrong with any of these guys!"
On Sun, Jan 25, 2009 at 9:24 PM, Terry Vinson
<consultant@tnclimited.com
wrote:
It's sad but I spent forever debating whether or not to respond to
the
post
about the boot camp question. Finally I did after someone else
mentioned Narbik I did. I'm a Internetworking End-to-End Self paced customer.
There's been times I've had major difficulties with technologies
and
I've
gotten help from a number of people. Scott you really helped me a
few months ago when I was having issues with the mock labs. You
also told me
I
should get some one-on-one help. I decided to take a bootcamp:
location, timing and money indicated that Narbik's class in
Columbia, MD (5 hours
from
where I live was the best option). To be honest I camped out rather
than
get a hotel (to reduce costs). It was great! I learned alot that I
didn't
know and realized I didn't know much about some the stuff I thought
I
knew.
It was interesting that two or three times during the course Narbik
mentioned other vendors. He said, "Internetworkexpert and Ipexpert
make great products, especially the labs." He mentioned later that,
"You can
go
wrong with any of these guys!"
Besides Narbik's not tall enough to be Obi-won! He's more like Yoda
"...do or do not. There is no try!"
Terry
Blogs and organic groups at http://www.ccie.net
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