Re: Advice on 2nd Cert

check out this blog, pretty smart guy, who went directly into SP after RS
and documented his struggles.

http://cciedreamer.blogspot.com/

On Sat, Sep 18, 2010 at 9:09 PM, William McCall <william.mccall_at_gmail.com>wrote:

> I'd beg to differ on the SP. It has enough learning differences
> between R&S and SP to be very noticeably different. What I think is
> that SP is not good just to randomly have. Unless you work in very
> large enterprise space, I doubt you will need much of the SP knowledge
> not already covered by the R&S today. Even in the SP world, CCIE R&S
> is usually good enough as you will need other more SP-centric
> knowledge not even covered by the SP lab (and only briefly by the
> written portion).
>
> Just an opinion though..
>
> On 9/18/10, joshua lauer <jslauer_at_gmail.com> wrote:
> > I've re-certed on SP twice, you are correct...it's essentially R/S with
> some
> > MPLS and other junk thrown in. I didnt find the written terribly hard and
> > had I actually prepared likely would have passed the lab when I took it.
> > Personally I abandoned the SP track and have thrown myself into Voice, I
> > found more of a market for it.
> >
> > good Luck whichever way you may chose.
> >
> > Josh
> > CCIE 16024
> >
> > On Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 1:35 PM, Jason Morris <mcnever_at_gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >> Hey guys,
> >>
> >> Looking for some advice. I've have to re-cert for the first time this
> >> coming Feb. I've been layen back doing nothing really since i passed
> ~18
> >> months and i think I'm getting geared up to start working on the 2nd one
> >> anyway. But I'm not sure what to go for, I've been thinking about
> either
> >> SP
> >> or Sec.
> >>
> >> SP, from what i've heard, is pretty close to R&S (which is what i have)
> so
> >> the gap shouldnt be that bad and i could get through it a lot faster and
> >> get
> >> that 2xCCIE status, but the industry for SP is much smaller and I'm not
> >> looking to go work for an ISP.
> >>
> >> Security is not my bread and butter and would be a lot harder to get
> >> through, not to mention that i've hard the security lab can be a pain
> even
> >> compared to the other CCIE labs. I've worked with ASA's and some PIX
> >> stuff
> >> but I'm not as familiar with it as i should be, but its much more
> >> marketable.
> >>
> >> thoughts?
> >>
> >> Jason
> >>
> >>
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