Questions about the requisite reading

dirtyharry

Hey guys,

I've been working my way through the reading list for R&Sv5, and I'm finding that a lot of the denser material isn't sticking in my head well. Stuff like all of the decisions and states of the EIGRP FSM. I know EIGRP FC, FS, S, a local computation v. a diffusing computation, but I don't remember all of the states of the FSM. Stuff like that.

Should I intersperse the reading with some homemade labs? Or should I just work through it, and rely on doing labs/workbooks later?

I've read Routing TCP/IP vol.1, OCG vol.1, and half way through OCG vol.2. My next books are Routing TCP/IP vol.2, End-to-end QoS, and MPLS Fundamentals.

Also, any other books I'm missing? I was thinking of adding IP Routing on IOS, IOS-XE, and IOS-XR. Would this be too redundant?

Thanks in advance!

gorebrush

You need to be labbing once you've covered a technology.

I found that by the time I had read a book, I'd had forgotten the finer details at the front...

Labbing helps solidify the topics.