Hello Everyone,
I've been lurking around this forum and the CCSP forum for a while trying to make up my mind which direction to choose and also waiting to see which my employer might pay for and I've finally made my choice and luckily my employer agreed, so here I am, ready to study for the CCNP! I couldn't be much more excited!
Here's my plan. I get a lot of hands-on experience at work right now with a pretty good range of hardware and issues and I don't have much (any) disposable income right now and my employer is only paying for books and exams, so I am thinking the dynamips route is the way to go. I am thinking I'll use the Cisco Press books for the main source of my study material, supplement with their fine website along with resources on the web, and build my virtual lab around Cisco Press lab books so I can practice labs. I was planning on starting with BSCI to begin with and working my way from there.
A little bit of background. I got my CCNA last summer and ended up landing a job in december with a company that was having a hard time finding a network engineer. They ended up using me for the basics and bringing in consultants for more advanced troubleshooting and projects. It's been great because I've gotten to do things I might otherwise never been given the chance to do, like configure an ASA failover pair. The problem is, too often I feel like I'm feeling my way around in the dark, especially when dealing with things like BGP.
I'd appreciate any advice and hope that I can eventually contribute some to the discussions here.
