Yeah ! (passed CCSE)

bzdziagwa

Hi folks,
I have passed this nightmare today with 80% - I still cannot belive that :]
Hardest exam in my career I would say.

There was 71 questions / 120min (+30min for non-native English speaker)
I found about 3-5 questions from CCSA exam, only one about licensing upgrade, few from QoS (Im suprised) and upgrade.

Looking for percentage (more or less):

25% - Advanced VPN concepts
25% - VoIP
5% - QoS
15% - HA & Cluster XL
10% - Upgrade to NGX order(XL and HA also).Hardware requirements.
10% - CVP, URI
10% - General security and CP technology.

My tactics for this exam was radically changed.
First I took course materials (NGX II Handbook) and documentation from CP site for hard study.
Then took the course and just after, took the exam. This is the best way I would say.

For CCSA I took the course first, then after 3 months I started to learn and to systemize my knowledge, but during these 3 months about 70% of course knowledge were forgotten :]
Then passed the exam about 4 months after the course.

Regards
B.

PS.
Please remeber that official course materials for NGX I and II are piece of **** !!!
There were thousand of mistakes, literal, wrong answers and so on.

Example - there were only few pages about VoIP configuration, where on the exam there is about 25% of questions about this!

The best mine of knowledge is CP site with latest documentation release.
Second source is NGX Configuration Book from Sybex.

mikej412

Congratulations!

You have to at least try to make it sound easy if you ever want convince a Cisco PIX person to give Checkpoint a try?