starting CCIP

CCIEWANNABE

just wanted to stop in to the CCIP forum. i purchased the qos exam guide today and will begin studying qos next week. I have a bunch of study material to include:

>ONT triansignal
>ONT CBT Nuggets
>QOS CBT Nuggets
>GNS3

should be fun! anyboday else have any other study material for the QOS exam?

networker050184

I'm currently doing the CCIP also slowly but surely! I'm doing QoS now and should be finished in a few weeks. I'm using the same material as you are. Plus I hava some knowledge net study materials for the whole CCIP track I have to get from a coworker who took the courses a while back. If that material is any good I'll let you know. For now its just CBT Nuggets, the exam cert guide and of course the docs.

Good luck on your IP!

mikej412

I just used the Cisco Press Cisco QOS Exam Certification Guide and the Cisco Documentation - and lots of hands on practice.

cisco_trooper

I enjoyed reading End-to-End QoS Design....not sure how relevant it is for the QoS exam but I found it informative having no prior experience with QoS.

CCIEWANNABE

thanks for the help. i think for hands on i'm going to use narbik's qos labs from his "gap from ccnp to ccie" and "advanced technologies" workbooks. should be some good stuff!

tmlerdal

mikej412 wrote: »

I just used the Cisco Press Cisco QOS Exam Certification Guide and the Cisco Documentation - and lots of hands on practice.

I would have to recommend the QoS Exam cert guide by Wendell Odom as well. Was a great resource for the exam.

Other than hands on experience, that's all I used for the exam.

mikej412

Here's a nice simple doc....
Cisco IOS Quality of Service [LAN Quality of Service] - Cisco Systems
... and you can follow the "Additional Information" link at the bottom to the main Cisco QoS page. The links there will take to more "good information" including a presentation link to a Cisco Networkers QoS Presentation and some good White Papers.

Use something like table 1 in that first link to help you keep track of stuff during your study. And maybe add 2 more columns to that table labeled "Old Way" and "New/MQC Way" and put "sample configurations" in them. I found that made for a quick and easy review. If I ever find my hand written sheet again I may type it up and turn it into a QoS TechNote/**** Sheet.

You may notice table 1 in the link above also matches the topics in the table of contents in the Cisco QoS Doc linked below. If you ever start to get confused by all the different configurations, just remember everything fits in that simple table/list (and that there's probably an "old way" and a "new way" ).

And those of you who have done the current CCNP ONT exam may recognize the "sequence" from the Describe DiffServ QoS Implementations Section of the ONT exam blueprint.

Cisco IOS Quality of Service Solutions Configuration Guide, Release 12.4 [Cisco IOS Software Releases 12.4 Mainline] - Cisco Systems


And here are the direct links to some of the QoS sections of popular switches. Feel free to substitute (and post) more recent IOS version docs

Catalyst 2950 Desktop Switch Software Configuration Guide, 12.1(11)EA1 - Configuring QoS [Cisco Catalyst 2950 Series Switches] - Cisco Systems

Catalyst 3550 Multilayer Switch Software Configuration Guide, Rel. 12.2(25)SEE - Configuring QoS [Cisco Catalyst 3550 Series Switches] - Cisco Systems

Catalyst 3560 Switch Software Configuration Guide, Rel. 12.2(44)SE - Configuring QoS [Cisco Catalyst 3560 Series Switches] - Cisco Systems

CCIEWANNABE

again, thanks for the info. man, there sure is an abundance of material out there :] i can't wait until i have qos down.

dtlokee

CCIEWANNABE wrote: »

i can't wait until i have qos down.

You and me both.

Paul Boz

the DocCD got me through the QoS exam. That and labbing the #### out of it.