642-533 ips

I've passed all the CCSP exams except 642-533.

How hard to you folks suspect it is to pass 642-533 without having acces to an Cisco IPS appliance for practice? We have a Cisco IPS 4215 at work but it's on a classified network and in production use, so I can't really muck with it. And a co-worker set it up--I only helped him with some initial theory of how to implement it in the network, I did no actual configuration on the appliance.

I have the Cisco Press CCSP IPS Exam Certification Guide (for 642-532), the Implementing Cisco Intrusion Prevention Systems Student Guide, the CBT Nuggets videos, and two non-brain **** practice exams. I have to wonder if studying from these will be enough...

Find more posts tagged with

Comments

dynamik

Can you get access to that via rack rentals?

Ahriakin

The IPS is a pretty unique device configuration wise so I'd say yes you'll need some hands on and as Not-Derek-Dynamik (

) said Rack Rental is probably your best bet. There are tutorials floating around on how to create a Linux VM that runs the IPS code but it's pretty involved and most folks reckon rental is a better choice, the time it takes you to setup can be better spent actually using the device. When I sat mine I didn't have access to one at work and used one 6 hour rack session to hammer out the configuration.