RE: Question for those who are CCIE SP.

    I know you're looking for people that passed, but I failed the SP lab in
December, and I've wanted to comment on this topic since. I'm biased to INE
and IPX, because its all I can afford. They worked for me with the R&S, and I
plan to use them for future IEs. I can't say they're better than any of the
others, because I haven't tried them. IEMentor has 6X CCIE Roman as a
trainer, so there is no argument that they are doing something right. There
are also people like Antonio Soares was generous to share his mini-labs with
everyone for free. I still recommend using some of the Vendors online labs as
opposed to 100% Dynamips work. I would also recommend looking over one or two
of the ciscopress mpls vpn books towards the end of your studies.

ANTONIO SOARES MINI LABS

 -FREE!!

 -ACCURATE

 -At least 95% of tasks that you may have to configure for the lab are here.

 -No Full sized labs or Walkthroughs, but who cares its free.

IPX

VOL2 -10 great labs that include some L2 VPN tasks. I also found some tasks
requirements that introduced me to some features with MPLS\Routing Protocols
that I ignored. I found the solutions to be very well documented, with few
errors if I remember any.

ONLINE LAB - Approx, 40$ for an 8 hour session. Great feature that auto loads
VOL1 configs, and maybe VOL2 as well.

AUDIO & VIDEO CLASS - I think these were released within the last month so you
probably won't find many comments on them. The IPX R & S Audio\Video products
were excellent.

VOL1 - I would recommend going through these again.

INE

VOL2- Another set of 10 great labs with a structure that many describe as
being as close to the real lab as possible. It will prepare you for roughly
85% of MPLS L3 VPN configuration tasks with the given versions of IOS. Any
errors you find, are discussed on INE blog. Within the last month they have
also started selling Breakdowns for each individual lab. I haven't seen them
yet, but I'm sure they are high quality.

ONLINE LAB - Approx 10 -15 dollars for a 5.5 session

OEQ CORE KNOWLEDGE PRODUCT - 200-300 Outstanding Questions. Reviewing these
will probably also help a with the confguration portion of the lab, as well as
the CK section they were designed for. I took the lab before they introduced
the OEQ for the SP Lab, and I don't think I've seen any comments from others
who have taken and the effectiveness of this product.

ADVANCED TECHNOLOGY VIDEO - Great explanations for all of the topics. Highly
recommended. Get the DVD and listen to it on the work commute.

CLASS ON DEMAND - I noticed this appear a few days ago. I'm not sure how
much it differs from the Class Demand

Arick Harris CCIE (R&S) #23666

> Date: Tue, 16 Feb 2010 17:59:51 -0500
> Subject: Question for those who are CCIE SP.
> From: gs_at_netengineer.org
> To: ccielab_at_groupstudy.com
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> For those that are CCIE SPs...
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> I'm having difficulty finding the most comprehensive vendor/material...
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> I've completed IPX and INE vol 1 and I see a big difference from the
> SP materials compared to R&S.
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> Any advice on what path I should take next?
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> Thanks,
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