Ideas for paying for CCIE Study Material
Hello all,
What are some ideas you all have about paying for the CCIE study material which cost like $1,400 or $1500 at two of the major vendors. So far I spoke to one of them and they agreed to break it up into a 4-month payment plan. However this is still too expensive especially for people paying a car note as well as rent, e.t.c
eGrizzly
What are some ideas you all have about paying for the CCIE study material which cost like $1,400 or $1500 at two of the major vendors. So far I spoke to one of them and they agreed to break it up into a 4-month payment plan. However this is still too expensive especially for people paying a car note as well as rent, e.t.c
eGrizzly
B.Sc (Info. Systems), CISSP, CCNA, CCNP, Security+
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CCIE Routing & Switching Cisco Certification Training - INE
Or CBT Nuggets and pay $99 / month for stream access.
I have budgeted £150 each month for training (for stuff like books, INE workbooks, switches, maybe bootcamp,etc).
Consider this an investment... remember that if you achieve this, you will get a job with a better pay a your investment will be re-paid in a few months.
So in short, wait for a deal. INE and other training vendors know that they have customers with completely different price elasticities. A big company is probably not going to care that a workbook is $499 or $199, but an individual customer does, and that's why they send the deals directly to your email address. Ideally they would probably want to price discriminate more accurately than that, but that's kind of difficult.
With enough effort put in, the workbook, textbooks (safari online subscription) and cisco docs (free) is probably all you need. I could be wrong, but videos and bootcamps and all that, while nice, does not seem essential.
That lab itself seems like the biggest financial problem considering that you can't really assume that you'll pass on try 1. Unless you have a high paying job already, paying for 3 or 4 lab fees seems a bit challenging, both financially and psychologically.
i have been buying materials from both ipexpert and ine and so far i can tell you.
I prefer INE videos + IPexpert workbooks. INE's workbook is ok but i prefer the more structured approach IPexpert has this tech lab can be done in 2hrs etc
M.S. Internet Engineering | M.S. Information Assurance
B.S. Information Technology | A.A.S Information Technology
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Currently pursuing: CCIE R&Sv5
They don't charge you any interest on top of the base price either so it's a pretty good deal. And to that the fact the 2 year subscription has $500 off it at the moment.