Group: Cisco Certification Networking

Hi,

A few weeks ago I decided to go for my R&S CCIE.... Starting the intensive study in January 2010. Probably with the IE Workbooks and maybe a heinzulm.com Bootcamp in the end. My timeline is as following:

* Written Exam deadline 31.04.2009
* Lab Exam deadline 31.09.2009

Anyone has similar plans? Would find it cool to have some co-suffering friends to share some information and exchange tips and bidirectional motivation. :-) Would be very cool if it's someone from Switzerland to have a beer together sometimes.

I will also start a Blog, more information will follow.... I think blogging is a good way of reflection and verification of the learning progress....

Regards,
Mario

Mario Iseli schrieb:

* Written Exam deadline 31.04.2009
* Lab Exam deadline 31.09.2009
Where did you get the time machine? ;-) Second time I see a mail / post with an announcement for the past today.

Anyone has similar plans? Would find it cool to have some co-suffering friends to share some information and exchange tips and bidirectional motivation. :-) Would be very cool if it's someone from Switzerland to have a beer together sometimes.
Not from Switzerland but I thought of finishing my CCIE till the end of 2010. But first there are other things to do.

cheers,

Jens

Haha and now everyone informs me that I made a mistake with the year... Just to make it sure: Yes you're right - I mean 2010. :-)

Mario Iseli schrieb:
Haha and now everyone informs me that I made a mistake with the year... Just to make it sure: Yes you're right - I mean 2010. :-)
Just because it was the second time within minutes I read something like that.

cheers,

Jens
This article was modified on 23 Nov 2009 at 09:54 am.

Hi Mario,

I've planned to finish the CCIE R&S by the end of next year, but I haven't decided on a specific date for the written and the lab exam yet. My goal is to have a lot of fun and learn as much as I can during this journey. That's why I'm putting not too much pressure on myself regarding the time it will take to reach my goal. But I'll try to get there before I turn 30 in September 2011 ;-)

I've already built a testlab at home (3 x Cat3560-24PS, 1 x Cat3550-24PWR, 1 x Server with 3 quad NICs and Dynamips/Dynagen). The Dynagen config is a customized version of the one from INE [1], where I have mapped all the ethernet ports of the routers to physical ports on the Catalyst switches.

Best Regards,

Jochen

1) http://www.internetworkexpert.com/downloads/internetwork.exp...
This article was modified on 23 Nov 2009 at 10:15 pm.

Hi Jochen,

for me it's also not about pressure. But I set myself personally short deadlines, otherwise I take it too lazy and don't do anything. But I want to reach my goal and do it - before turning 21 in November 2010. ;-)

I registered the domain techieblog.ch where I plan to setup Wordpress and blog about my progress and my experiences.

Where are you "standing" now? Already got some INE material? I guess I will order the rest of my book library and the INE stuff in January, first doing my CCIP to get used to learning again... About my lab I'm not sure yet, we have a cute little Lab room in our office where I have a server which I could use and add some switches and maybe some physical 7200.

Looking forward to hearing from you again and regards,
Mario

Mario Iseli schrieb:
>...
for me it's also not about pressure. But I set myself personally short deadlines, otherwise I take it too lazy and don't do anything. But I want to reach my goal and do it - before turning 21 in November 2010. ;-)
 
I totally agree with you, setting deadlines is not that bad to get something done and to better track your own success.

I registered the domain techieblog.ch where I plan to setup Wordpress and blog about my progress and my experiences.
 
Where are you "standing" now?
I've just started to review my CCNP study notes recently. The next thing I will do is to create a study plan with all the topics from the blueprint. There are also a lot of books on my bookshelf who are just waiting to be read like the following ones:

- Internetworking with TCP/IP (Comer)
- Interconnections (Perlman)
- Routing TCP/IP Vol. 1
- BGP in practice
- Cisco QOS Exam Certification Guide

- IPv6 Security (maybe not so relevant to R&S, but it received good reviews)
- CCIE R&S Exam Certification Guide 4th ed. (pre-ordered)

Already got some INE material?
I have already bought the following products from INE:

- CCIE 2.0 (Electronic / Self-Paced)
- R&S Audio Bootcamp
- R&S Written Bootcamp Class-on-Demand

The decision to buy INE's products products was mainly based on feedback from others and I really liked their free V-seminars [1]. I was also thinking about buying the R&S "blended learning solution" from IPexpert, but they are using some kind of DRM mechanism to protect their PDF files. My workstation at home runs Linux and I didn't want to fiddle around with some proprietary Adobe Reader plugins (not sure if it runs on linux at all).

I guess I will order the rest of my book library and the INE stuff in January, first doing my CCIP to get used to learning again... About my lab I'm not sure yet, we have a cute little Lab room in our office where I have a server which I could use and add some switches and maybe some physical 7200.
 
It's great when you have the opportunity to use real hardware routers and switches in your testlab. I'm just using dynamips for the routers, because I don't have the possibility to build a lab at work and I had to pay all the training material and catalyst switches for the CCIE out of my own pocket. But I tried to stay as close as possible to the INE topology, to their configuration and to their interface names/numbers in my testlab. Otherwise it would be very confusing to work with their workbooks, because you would always need some kind of an interface mapping table for your and their topology ;-)

Looking forward to hearing from you again and regards,
Mario
Regards,

Jochen


1) http://www.internetworkexpert.com/free_ccie_vseminar.htm
This article was modified on 24 Nov 2009 at 10:51 pm.

Jochen Bartl schrieb:

There are also a lot of books on my bookshelf who are just waiting to be read like the following ones:
I also recommend "The All-New Switch Book: The Complete Guide to LAN Switching Technology" by Rich Seifert and Jim Edwards. Not Cisco specific but at least the first version of this book taught me a lot on how this stuff works, including some historical background.

And, for BGP "Practical BGP" by Russ White, Danny McPherson and Sangli Srihari might also be worth a look.

cheers

Jens

Jens Link schrieb:
I also recommend "The All-New Switch Book: The Complete Guide to LAN Switching Technology" by Rich Seifert and Jim Edwards. Not Cisco specific but at least the first version of this book taught me a lot on how this stuff works, including some historical background.
Thanks. This one looks interesting. I'll put it on my Amazon wishlist ;-) I have used the CCNP BCMSN book and Network Warrior form O'Reilly in the past for studying switching topics. I don't like the title of the Network Warrior book, but this one is really great, because it covers some details about switching architectures in general and then explains also a lot about the Catalyst 6500 series switches.

Regards,

Jochen