CCSA certification - equipment advice

Hello,

I just passed the CCNA exam on Friday and now its time to move on, and I think I'd like to get a Checkpoint Certification. So, for the people who have taken the CCSA (or CCSE), what would be good to study with? I'm willing to buy equipment and I'm was looking at one of these:

dubdubdub [dot] checkpointworks [dot] com [slash] UTM-1-Edge.asp

Would this be ok, or is this functionally different than what I'd see if Checkpoint was installed on Linux or Windows?

Any advice is welcome. Thank you.

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ThunderPipe

LVsFINEST wrote: »

Hello,

dubdubdub [dot] checkpointworks [dot] com [slash] UTM-1-Edge.asp

Any advice is welcome. Thank you.

I study up on how to post links before moving forward...

BobMead

You can do it all on one machine with VMware. I did

dynamik

BobMead wrote: »

You can do it all on one machine with VMware. I did

Could you please elaborate?

shednik

dynamik wrote: »

Could you please elaborate?

I'm assuming you just have the code installed on a VM with smart center running, and the clients installed on your PC? We're you able to get P1 up and running in this setup as well?

BobMead

Yes you can run Provider-1 in a virtual machine. It is just a linux install don't over think the application.

dynamik

And that's what runs on the hardware that's necessary for the CCSA? Is it easy to get a hold of?

Sorry, I'm not very familiar with Checkpoint.