Done!

CCNP done as of this morning. Studied official Cisco Press books starting in January. I also used Chris Bryant's series on Udemy.

Took the exams in this order:

Route (passed 1st time) - April 2015
Switch (passed 1st time) - June 2015
T-Shoot (failed once with 806, passed a week later with 951) - September 2015

I downloaded the blueprints for Route and Switch and pasted them into OneNote, then read about all of those topics and filled in notes underneath them.

For T-Shoot, I memorized the topology from Cisco: https://learningnetwork.cisco.com/servlet/JiveServlet/previewBody/6741-102-1-23100/TSHOOT%20Exam%20Topology.pdf

Happy to be done with this, and moving onto CCIE. I'll take my R&S written in June 2016, take Narbik's 10 day bootcamp around October/November 2016 and Lab in January 2017.

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Mow

Nice job! Hopefully I'm right behind you

linuxabuser

Mow wrote: »

Nice job! Hopefully I'm right behind you

I hope so too!

Fulcrum45

Congratulations, nice score!

koz24

Congrats man! 9 months is the pace I'm currently going at as well.

Danielh22185

CONGRATS!

How was TSHOOT? I am finishing up the new switch content and then will have to also test out with the new TSHOOT. I'm hoping my route skills aren't so far off pitch since I passed the Route exam. I plan on picking up the new book though for some review before stepping into TSHOOT. That or might just rehash on my notes and just get the new TSHOOT book.

linuxabuser

Thanks everyone.

Danielh22185 wrote: »

CONGRATS!

How was TSHOOT? I am finishing up the new switch content and then will have to also test out with the new TSHOOT. I'm hoping my route skills are so far off pitch since I passed the Route exam. I plan on picking up the new book though for some review before stepping into TSHOOT. That or might just rehash on my notes and just get the new TSHOOT book.

T-Shoot was one of the most unrealistic tests I've encountered. Very few tickets were anything you'd run into in real life. Also, there's no sh run int or sh run | i <whatever> so you have to parse sh ip proto and sh run yourself. The T-Shoot book is a great reference for real life, but the test and book are not related in my opinion.