Well folks, back from holidays and straight into the CCIE studies. I am trying to get in the habit of getting up at 5:30am, to study at least an hour before I head to work. It hasn't been bad the first few days, but we'll see how it goes. I feel that my concentration at that time in the morning is very very good. I have also been trying to build a CCIE curriculum for myself. I think that with my extended time frame of 2 years I will need a large framework to keep myself motivated and on-track.
My first few tasks are to read Internetworking with TCP/IP by Douglas Comer and Interconnections: Bridges, Routers, Switches, and Internetworking Protocols. During this time I hope to finish my planning and have the curriculum down. I plan to create a packet for each major section. The packet will include all labs, videos, and reading that I think I will need to master the topic.
The first topic I plan to cover is switching, the only issue that I have right now is that this can't be tackled in Dynamips. So my options are to re cable the switches at work or to turn on the beasts at home. I am thinking that re cabling the ones at work will be easier for now. The material that I plan to cover for the switching section is Narbik's Foundation, Soup2Nuts, and Advanced Technologies. Once those are completed I will move into either IPExpert or IE technology Labs. I am still hesitant that I am being overly ambitious trying to cover all the Narbik workbooks, and then move onto the IE and IPExpert Technology labs too. I am hoping to get a feel once I start labbing and I am prepared to scale back the materials as needed.
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Tuesday, January 20, 2009
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I like your plan of creating a packet for each major sections. I myself am building something of that sort as I go through the CCNP. Each major sections (FR, OSPF, BGP, etc.) I have a 4-inch binder for and continue to add extra resources as I find them. Hoepfully this will serve me well later on when I'm working on CCIE.
As far as dynamips goes, have you seen the following thread?:
Passed CCIE Labs using Dynamips. Hopefully that would give you some creative ideas.
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