Re: OT: New lab v4 assesor at Cisco site and Lab beta exam at

Many thanks to everybody, now I need study it, that's all ;)
2009/8/13 <ccie.weaver_at_gmail.com>

> Hi Folks,
>
> after two unsuccesfuls R&S lab v3 exams(Advice: You know if you are ready
> or
> not), now I'm preparing the 3rd attempt in order to pass v4 R&S LAB.
> Now I'm cutting down the expenses using more dynamips, the problems is
> that I'm not able to run 13th devices running with an acceptable
> performance
> even using more than 4 Gb of RAM. I already applied all the performance
> improvements like "IOS ghost" and so on. I'm thinking move to LINUX. But
> any
> advice will be really apreciated.
>
> By the other hand, I was using the IE materials for v3 and they are
> fantastics, but there's nothing for v4 like mpls or I'm wrong. In addition
> of that, I saw at Cisco that the cisco lab assesors tests have been remove
> from the web, and replaced for a simulation of the new exam
> structure (troubleshooting part and configuring part) taking 9 hours. Do
> you
> know how to buy the v4 assesors at CISCO site?? I saw like bootcamps
> with the assesor bundles but says something like contact with a external
> trainning company for contract them. Any experience related?
>
> Finally, do you have the link for taking the v4 lab beta exam ?
>
> Many thanks,
> RobClav
>
> Robclav,
>
> 1. MPLS - Get the old Sybex Book on MPLS Certification for the CCIP - only
> costs a mild... $5.00 - $50.00. Of course new offerings will soon appear
> if
> not already. I kinda like this one.
>
> (It works through a varirty of labs in succession and incrementally. It's
> the
> kind of thing you need to see the cause and effect of each configuration
> step-by-step and with more complexity as you progress.)
>
> 2. The CCIE Lab Accessors are gone for now. The Cisco ASET CCIE Labs are
> still
> alive and kicking. However, to the best of my knowledge you have to be
> associated with a Cisco Partner and your SE will have to vouch for you and
> get
> you hooked up.
>
> (In the mean time - there are a total of 4 CCIE Lab Prep - Cisco Press
> titles
> and they are mostly written by the staff who are proctors... need I say
> more?)
>
> If the wording looks like the CCIE Accessor... it is probably no small
> wonder.
>
>
> There is an argument that some of the labs in some of the books is old,
> unsuported, etc. However, a creative CCIE Candidate can save a bundle by
> being
> able to spot the issues and overcome the deficiencies that time and change
> have
> had on these great references.
>
> 3. Dynamips - I'm not sure if everyone has heard but the emphasis on the
> CCIE
> Lab is not on Cisco Router Hardware, nor is it actually on Cisco IOS
> Software
> Version. It is on the Technology however. With that said, you can safely
> practice the majority of your labs and scenarios on 2 or 3 routers and then
> gradually build up to several more routers.
>
> A strategy such as this might take this form of understanding that there
> are
> two fundamental operations that routers employ and that the CCIE Lab is
> intended to test upon:
>
> 1. The link between any two routers and at times maybe 3 routers.
>
> 2. The forwarding plane, its decisions and the conditions on which those
> decisions are based.
>
> 4. There is/was no link to the Cisco Beta Labs.
>
> 5. The Official Announcement from Cisco is that the CCIE Version 4.0 Labs
> shall
> commence on October 18th, 2009.
>
>
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