Re: pursuing CCIE Voice - Feedback

Hi,

It all depends on your current knowledge. But you have to put tremendous
amount of work in studying.

First go and read the following books:
1) Voice Over IP Fundamentals (Davidson, Peters, Gracely, ISBN# 1578701686)
2) Cisco CallManager Fundamentals, Second Edition (Alexander, Pearce, Smith,
Whetten, ISBN# 1587051923)
This one is a bit old, but beleave me it's very relevant in many sections
yet, and very well written.
3) CIPT1, CIPT2 course
4) Cisco Catalyst QoS: Quality of Service in Campus Networks (Flannagan,
Froom, Turek, ISBN# 1587051206)
5) Troubleshooting Cisco IP Telephony (Giralt, Hallmark, Smith, ISBN#
1587050757)
6) Deploying Cisco Unified Presence - by Michael Houtong Luo
This is the best book for CUPS

Afterwords you can hit the Cisco web page, and read the following SRND's.
CUCM SRND
QoS SRND

Then some other guides on CCO again:
CUCME Admin Guide
UCCX Admin Guide
UCCX Programming Guide
The whole voice section on 12.4T IOS

You can add a few ITU-T recomendations to it:
ITU-T q931 Recomendation
ITU-T h225 Recomendation

At this point do the written. You should be more than prepared for the
written by now.

The best vendor I've encountered for CCIE Voice is definitely IPExpert.
They have a few bootcamps, one is more theory, which is very good after
you've finished Workbook I of their preparation material.
In this bootcamp you will learn about many things, and fill in gaps in your
education, things you missed, things you thought you knew but were wrong.

After you finish the first bootcamp, start with Workbook II of IPExpert, and
try doing the whole mock labs. I would recommend renting with proctorlabs
online rack, as there you can load IPExpert's initial configs.

After you're done doing all the mock labs, book the second bootcamp with
IPExpert, the lab experience bootcamp.
It's a whole week of doing labs, and then the walk through the labs. You
will learn a lot of new staff here, new troubleshooting methodology that you
haven't thought before, new methods of doing things.

After the bootcamp, you might want to take a week or two, to play around
with your new knowledge. You will receive great help from instructors even
after the bootcamp all the way till you pass.

Now, you're ready for the lab.

This whole thing might take you 1 year to 2 years, as I said, depending on
your current knowledge.

Regards,

On Fri, May 13, 2011 at 10:19 AM, Vishal Rane <vishal.rane_at_hotmail.co.in>wrote:

> Hi All
>
>
> I am pursuing CCIE Voice and would like your suggestions with
> respect to the vendor for training. Appreciate feedback who have already
> walked the same road.Also would be interested to get feedback on study
> plans (
> ideal number of hours to study per day ) ; ( ideal number of hours on
> weekends
> ) ;
> How many months ideally needed to be prepared for LAB Exam.Minimum hardware
> needed for initial preparation.Recommended Rack Rental for final
> stagesRecommended readings
>
> Thank you all
> Best WishesVishal
>
>
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