Re: OT CCIE materials

I usually don't comment on CCIE products as in my opinion all vendors are
equally good and all of them have their strengths and weaknesses. INE,
IPexpert and iementor played huge role in my success and I have great
respect for these folks. Having said that I personally believe Narbik's
workbooks are different from other vendors or atleast that's my observation.
His hardwork and thoroughness is evident from all his labs. Recently one of
my friends was working on Narbik's RS bootcamp workbook and I asked him few
questions about IPv6 as this is my weak area. He showed me Narbik's IPv6
labs and I was extremely impressed with the labs layout, tasks, quality of
explanations and solutions. I learned a lot during this excercise and ended
up doing all his labs on IPv6 and OSPF (Sorry Narbik didn't intend to break
your EULA :-)). I have 3 CCIEs but I am still going to order his RS bootcamp
workbook so I can stay in "shape" :-) Narbik was also kind enough to send me
his Traffic Engineering labs for SP and as I commented before, those are the
best labs i have seen on TE.

And yes I am now pretty decent with IPv6 and exploring new topics like
multihoming, IPv6 security, IPv6 MPLS etc and I have to thanks Narbik for
that :-)

Shahid
12665 (RS/Sec/SP)

On Sat, Dec 11, 2010 at 1:39 PM, 2beone <2beone_at_gmail.com> wrote:

> To up to that the advanced workbook follows an atomic no nonsense approach
> to each single technology item really focusing on the core of it using a
> simple topology resulting in much higher retention, at least for me.
>
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: robroutt74_at_gmail.com
> Sent: zaterdag 11 december 2010 22:11
> To: ccielab_at_groupstudy.com
> Subject: OT CCIE materials
>
> I know some of you have had the luxury of attending one of Narbik's more
> recent boot camps and are possibly in possession of his TS book in addition
> to the latest boot camp materials. I received them recently being a
> previous student and I wanted to comment on them for anyone looking for a
> very complete solution to your studies and a fresh approach from Narbik and
> Co.. Narbik's new books have changed a little bit and I believe it has been
> for the better. In previous versions of his workbooks, it seemed like there
> were a lot more reloads; which really detracted from solid focus on the
> technology for me. I know some of us got around this with the configure
> replace command, but his new lab books don't require this near as often. I
> have spoken to other candidates who've regarded his previous materials as
> complete, but somewhat like a lot of individual tech focused labs. I can
> tell you the new format contains all the technology with typically 8-13
> devices per lab. This creates the complexity most like the real lab IMO,
> but still tech focused; which I prefer. I just finished the EIGRP section
> for example. It was about 70 pages long and contained about 45 tasks(no
> reboots). I had 9 separate EIGRP instances running across the topology with
> mutual redistribution, multiple path manipulation, tagging, etc. Now, to
> some of the speed typists out there, that doesn't sound like much, but to
> really get the technology and the feel for EIGRP filtering, redistribution,
> timers, load-balancing, leak-maps, metric calculation, summary routes,
> default routes, etc. this lab would demand about 6-8 hours of keyboard time
> along with note taking if you do that. I am almost done with the Boot Camp
> workbook and I can tell you this is by far his best work yet for those of
> you that have some of his older work.
>
> Just to clarify for some of you, I don't work for Micronics and Narbik
> doesn't pay me or ask me to send this, I send it because I think there are
> a lot folks out there looking for reviews of great products and boot camps
> that will help them ultimately pass the lab, but I think more importantly,
> learn the technologies. No 007 or ninja commands or configurations, just
> in-depth examples and explanations. If you want more info on my experiences
> with his materials or anyone else's I can comment on, feel free to unicast
> me. If I haven't given it a fair shake, I won't comment on it..
>
> Happy Labbing!
>
> -Rob
>
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