Re: OT CCIE materials

Thanks Shahid. I am glad you enjoyed the labs.

On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 3:29 PM, Shahid Shafi <sshafi_at_gmail.com> wrote:

> 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.
> >
> > Sent from my HTC HD2
> >
> > -----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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