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Time to post. I did this for my CCNP, and I think it helped keep me focused and motivated to make my intentions public. Quick back story: I got my first IT job as IT support/jack of all trades in 2011. Six years later, I moved into my current junior network engineer role solely focused on networking. I earned my CCNA in March 2016 at the old job, started this job in June 2017, started studying for CCNP at the same time, and earned CCNP in August 2018.
I decided to keep pushing for the top and go for the CCIE. A coworker is doing it as well, so we're trying to keep ourselves motivated. We have INE and Safari, so those will be my primary study resources.
I don't have a real timeline yet, but I'm hoping my job sends us to Cisco Live this year, so that's my tentative goal date to take the written.
This is pretty intimidating. There are many topics on the blueprint I've never touched, configured, or even know what some of the acronyms stand for, but that first step has to start somewhere.
I decided to keep pushing for the top and go for the CCIE. A coworker is doing it as well, so we're trying to keep ourselves motivated. We have INE and Safari, so those will be my primary study resources.
I don't have a real timeline yet, but I'm hoping my job sends us to Cisco Live this year, so that's my tentative goal date to take the written.
This is pretty intimidating. There are many topics on the blueprint I've never touched, configured, or even know what some of the acronyms stand for, but that first step has to start somewhere.
CCIE RS - Written (Goal: July 2019) [ ] Lab [ ]
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Perhaps look to Keith Barker's training through CBT Nuggets?
https://www.cbtnuggets.com/it-training/[email protected]E2yiiFo:20181026172011:s
I will be on the CCIE path in a couple weeks so I will feel your pain soon. Take it a step at the time, and it's not a question of if you will get your CCIE, but when.
We can do anything we put our minds to. Game on brother.
[X] CCNA ICND2 200-105
[X] CCNP ROUTE 300-101
[X] CCNP SWITCH 300-115
[X] CCNP TSHOOT 300-135
[ ] CCDP ARCH 300-320
If you make it to Cisco Live I should have a session in the certification track called "The CCIE in an SDN world". At least, I'll have it if I don't bomb in CL Barcelona and Melbourne.
After this course is when the real fun will begin. I plan on doing the INE advanced technology course, which is 100 hours, full of very detailed videos. I'll take a few of those at a time, trying to move incrementally. After watching a video or two, I'll do the accompanying labs on INE, maybe related labs on GNS3, and then hit the books, white papers, RFCs, etc, for the same material. So something like watch a basic EIGRP video, lab a basic EIGRP scenario, and read about general EIGRP from various resources. And then the later EIGRP videos will get more in depth with more options and features, and then I'll lab and read those as well. Rinse and repeat until test time.
I'm still targeting the written in June at Cisco Live, but I'm also still trying to take the "lab first" approach.
And now news of the cert refresh, I'm sort of in a weird limbo. I'm not sure if i want to push 12-18 months of studying into 8, and that's assuming I'd be able to pass in one try. I'll probably start working my way through INE's lab material either way. We'll still need it for the new version. It'll just be harder to get experience with the SDN topics.
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