Re: From CCIE R&S to R&S+SP -- commitment required

Dale,

I did it in about 3 weeks of study over a 6-8 week period, a year and a bit
after my R&S (wish I'd done it sooner). It was markedly easier to study for
because, as someone else said, you already know the L2 protocols (besides
ATM, PPPoE and AToMPLS) and you know OSPF and the other PE-CE protocols. My
main resources were, well, you can guess which vendor and extensive use of
the Cisco Documentation on ATM and AToMPLS. I'd done my CCIP already, so I
knew the basics of MPLS and MPLS TE going in and IS-IS from BSCI as I'd
taught that a few years prior.

It's a logical completion to your R&S knowledge to do SP and I think you'll
find it fun and a lot shorter a journey than your R&S one was (mine was 11
months including the massive reading load for the written).

PS I'm in Canberra too, right now.

On 6/13/09 5:39 PM, "Dale Shaw" <dale.shaw_at_gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> There are lots of posts on GroupStudy where people are asking for
> pointers to good CCIE SP study resources -- that's not the intention
> of this post.
>
> I'd like to hear from people who went on from CCIE R&S to tackle and
> pass SP. Was the time and effort required comparable to that of your
> CCIE R&S journey, or was it more like a logical progression that
> required less from you in terms of time and commitment?
>
> Obviously some people tackle CCIE SP without R&S, and presumably for
> them the end-to-end effort is similar for someone doing R&S from
> scratch (otherwise plenty of people would be out there saying "SP is
> easier than R&S"). Noting that everybody is different, I suppose I'm
> curious about things like:
>
> - Did you take a break after R&S, and if so, how long?
> - How much of your retained R&S knowledge helped with your SP prep?
> Did it allow you to skip much/any content?
> - For the SP Written, how long did you prepare and how did you find
> the exam, difficulty-wise? Same as R&S Written?
> - How long did it take you, from end-to-end, from the beginning of
> your SP prep to passing the SP lab? How many hours, roughly
> - Any other observations re: changes in the way you prepared for R&S versus
> SP?
>
> Having recently passed R&S, I'm keen to capitalise on my study 'mode'
> and habits, but for me, pursuing SP is more about an interest in the
> technology than any other imperative. I know if I leave it too long,
> some of those strange tidbits of information still clanging around
> inside my head will disappear, study habits will give way to life,
> work will ramp up, and it will be harder to get motivated to get stuck
> into SP.
>
> Cheers,
> Dale
>
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Cheers,

Jared Scrivener CCIE3 #16983 (R&S, Security, SP), CISSP
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