G'Day Guys!

Hi all,

Just thought I'd introduce myself. My name is Arden and I am a Cisco Instructor and network consultant from Melbourne, Australia. I teach CCNA, and CCNP courses and I am busily working towards my CCIE (R&S - 66 days to go for my lab!). Working through the Internetwork Expert lab books at the moment for preparation.

I found this site when someone linked to my blog from here, thought it looked like a great place to meet and share knowledge. Looking forward to getting to know everyone around here and helping out as much as I can.

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Mrock4

Welcome. I'm a big fan of your blog. I'm really glad to see the more experienced folks come around here. It's a huge help to everyone else, and It's always good to associate with like-minded individuals. Keep up the awesome blog.

For those that haven't checked arden's blog out, it's a good read.

http://ardenpackeer.com/

Edit: Just noticed it's in his sig...oh well....double the publicity

KGhaleon

Welcome.

Pretty informative board, this is.

arden

Thanks for the plug Mrock4! if you are down in Melbourne I owe you a beer!

networker050184

Welcome to the forums!

Mrock4

arden wrote:

Thanks for the plug Mrock4! if you are down in Melbourne I owe you a beer!

I might take you up on that!!

MrD

Welcome! Good luck on your lab! Have you used any other Vendor's material?

arden

Thanks MrD!

I have IPexperts Lab book and Proctor guide version 9. I found that they weren't as thorough as the Internetwork labs, and the proctor guide was littered with errors. There was heaps of lab "tricks" in IPexpert, but I think the Internetwork expert labs concentrate on the Core concepts a lot more.

A friend of mine did the IPexpert bootcamp and raved about it, which is what led me to get the IPExpert Lab Book. It was the material I started to prepare on, but if I had to start all over again I would definitely start with the internetwork expert stuff. I think for someone starting out, they are more oriented to self study, whereas the IPexpert workbooks would be useful later in the game, after a bootcamp or similar.

The internetwork expert solutions given to the labs are very well documented. Its a great learning experience just read through after each lab as they really guide you through the solution.

Anybody else tried a few vendors? I'd be interested to know what everyone's opinions of the other vendor materials.

APA

woohoo another aussie!!!! Welcome to the forums

Good luck on your lab!!!

MrD

I've stuck with IEWB myself. Their advanced_tech labs were outstanding when I first started preparing for the lab. I then went onto their core labs and then into their full 8 hr labs. I definitely recommend them to everyone. If I don't pass the lab this Friday I'm going to try another vendor out just for a different view/feel. I'm unsure which at this point however.

dtlokee

Welcome to the forums.

Don't worry about all the little tricks it's not like that. I tried an audio bootcamp from IPExpert and found it totally boring and worthless. Too much on "think about this" and "worry about that" and not enough content. I only made it through 2 hours.

When I passed I didn't read the whole lab. I read the L2 parts, redrew my diagram, then organized the tasks into the correct order for L2 and off I went. Correct order is important within the section but not so much between the sections.

Good Luck!

phantasm

Welcome to TE.net.

Australia is a great place.. I've been to Perth and Sydney. Enjoyed it all.

Turgon

arden wrote:

Hi all,

Just thought I'd introduce myself. My name is Arden and I am a Cisco Instructor and network consultant from Melbourne, Australia. I teach CCNA, and CCNP courses and I am busily working towards my CCIE (R&S - 66 days to go for my lab!). Working through the Internetwork Expert lab books at the moment for preparation.

I found this site when someone linked to my blog from here, thought it looked like a great place to meet and share knowledge. Looking forward to getting to know everyone around here and helping out as much as I can.

Nice to see you here Arden.

Pash

An Aussie joins the board with Gday in the subject. I think when I joined the board I put "Hello Chaps" somewhere i my post. It's like all stereotypes come true on the forums!

On that note, welcome!

Ill take a look at your blog, looks good!

Netstudent

Welcome! The more guys like you around here, the more knowledge can be shared. Nice to see more knowledgeable guys coming around to give and receive.

Slowhand

Oh great. Another TechExams member that's smarter than me.

Welcome to the forum arden, and thanks for a great blog. Good luck with the big, bad lab; you know we're all hoping to see that magic number after you name, once the big day's come and gone.