RE: ASET labs

Yep. Thank you John. Did a very good job. We have 3 engineers used ASET
labs heavily to pass the CCIE Security Lab. Me being the most recent :)
I also bought the whole security package from IPExpert when Scottie was
there, but primarily using them for reading and listening.
IPExpert labs are great, love the proctor guide, but nothing beat the
convenience and the "AUTOVERIFY" of the ASET labs!
For some reason, not a lot of Cisco SE knows about the ASET labs.

Regards,

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-----Original Message-----
From: nobody_at_groupstudy.com [mailto:nobody_at_groupstudy.com] On Behalf Of John
Galt Kupec
Sent: Wednesday, May 06, 2009 9:46 PM
To: Chris Breece; Cisco certification
Cc: Jared Scrivener
Subject: Re: ASET labs

On May 6, 2009, at 7:28 PM, Jared Scrivener wrote:

> They are the Cisco Assessor labs - mock lab simulations. They are
> alright (I
> did the first two they released in '06) but they are too easy from a
> training standpoint (they resemble the real lab in difficulty,
> unlike the
> IPexpert labs which really push you to learn things in detail).
>
> If you are in the last few weeks of preparation and want to gauge your
> readiness, I'd recommend them as they give you the best chance of
> keeping
> your confidence level up.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Jared Scrivener CCIE3 #16983 (R&S, Security, SP), CISSP
> Sr. Technical Instructor - IPexpert, Inc.
> Telephone: +1.810.326.1444
> Fax: +1.810.454.0130
> Mailto: jscrivener_at_ipexpert.com
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: nobody_at_groupstudy.com [mailto:nobody_at_groupstudy.com] On Behalf
> Of
> Chris Breece
> Sent: Wednesday, 6 May 2009 6:19 PM
> To: Cisco certification
> Subject: ASET labs
>
> I've seen talk on G/S about Cisco ASET labs. I did about 2 minutes of
> googling around before I decided to ask G/S, so forgive me if this
> is a
> stupid question....
>
> What are they? :P

No, the ASET labs and the Assessor labs are not the same thing.
Somewhat similar, but ASET does not equal Assessor. As Jared says, the
Assessor labs are intended to represent the "real" lab. The ASET labs
are kind of a mixed bag of training and testing.

Cisco Assessor:
4 hour timed labs
Cost money
Content direct from Cisco CCIE team
All-or-nothing scoring
You sign yourself up

Cisco ASET:
"full" labs designed to take at 6-8 hours to complete. The full lab
covers all blueprint topics
"modular" labs take 1-3 hours and cover only certain blueprint topics
free
no time limit on sessions (depends on how you have been set up)
partial credit
A Cisco rep or training partner must sign you up.

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The Assessor lab wording and questions are pretty similar to the real
thing. The labs come from or are at least OK'd by the Cisco CCIE team.

The ASET labs use the Assessor labs as their model. The ASET labs
probably have a tad more "help" in them compared to the Assessor labs
or real lab. By that I mean that some of the tasks may be spelled out
a little bit more (less vague) than you might find in Assessor or real
lab.

The ASET labs do not come from the CCIE team nor are they "blessed" by
them. But the feedback we have received is that the ASET labs do a
pretty good job.

You can email support_at_autoverify.net for more info.

John
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Received on Wed May 06 2009 - 22:20:37 ART