RE: Bootcamps and Vendors

From: Roman Rodichev (roman@iementor.com)
Date: Sat Jan 31 2009 - 16:39:12 ARST


We'll be releasing a new Storage workbook v2 (600 lab questions),
walkthrough workbook v2 (700 pages), personal bootcamp and live bootcamp in
a couple of weeks. I'll follow up once it's announced.

Roman Rodichev
5xCCIE #7927 (R&S, Security, Voice, Storage, Service Provider)
Instructor, Content Developer
ieMentor Corporation http://www.iementor.com
Y!M: roman7927

-----Original Message-----
From: nobody@groupstudy.com [mailto:nobody@groupstudy.com] On Behalf Of
Felix Nkansah
Sent: Saturday, January 31, 2009 3:42 AM
To: prateek reddy
Cc: George Murage; testing testing123; Cisco certification; Cisco
certification
Subject: Re: Bootcamps and Vendors

There is ONLY one Storage vendor (despite attempts by others).
It is IEMentor.

On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 10:11 PM, prateek reddy
<prateek.reddyk@gmail.com>wrote:

>
> What about CCIE STORAGE! can anyone recommend one good vendor for that?
>
> On Sat, Jan 31, 2009 at 3:09 AM, George Murage <gmurage@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Often, i think the question of vendor workbooks is asked the other way
>> round. too much focus is placed on so and so workbook. however, i
>> think the best materials are those whose teaching style matches your
>> learning technique. All the vendors mentioned here are all good but
>> what about you? how do you learn? do u prefer to do most of the work
>> yourself or prefer a more defined step by step approach? Do you prefer
>> digging into full scale labs or prefer going through the mini-labs
>> until you are confident enough with all the technologies?
>>
>> In my case, i used IE materials coz the numerous mini-labs helped me
>> learn the technologies slowly and i'd try all different ways of
>> configuring something, say like L2L VPN before moving on to something
>> else. Does this mean that IE workbook is better then IPX. No. But
>> because of my learning technique, i preferred IE. My choice had more
>> to do with me, than the vendor. Bobby commented that he hated the
>> numerous mini-labs on IE workbook, and preferred the mock-labs on IPX.
>> well, that is his style of learning, but is it yours? I found the
>> full-length labs very very demanding and quite frankly did not do more
>> than 5 or so full-length labs but spent tons and tons of time working
>> on the mini-labs and coming up with my own.
>>
>> i passed on my second attempt. i'm no genius but i think it is
>> important 4 u 2 stay true to yourself. don't adjust to a vendor, pick
>> one that comes closest to your learning techniques.
>>
>> HTH
>>
>> George M
>>
>> On 1/30/09, Felix Nkansah <felixnkansah@gmail.com> wrote:
>> > Hi,
>> >
>> > Go with COD from IEX and workbooks from IPX for the security track.
>> > With IEX, one thing that continues to remain true is that their CODs
>> don't
>> > disappoint (r&s, security, sp).
>> >
>> > Felix
>> >
>> > On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 4:23 PM, testing testing123
>> > <testing3.141@gmail.com>wrote:
>> >
>> >> so when who's security materials should i invest in ? who is known
>> >> for their security materials ? who does security the best ?
>>
>>
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