mikej412 wrote: » Studying for he QOS, BGP and MPLS exams from the CCIP track will help with your CCIE Quest -- and hopefully lead to new opportunities in your current job to use those skills. But with only 1.5 years experience, it might better to go for the Certifications that will help you do your current job -- so if that's the CCSP, that's probably your best current choice.
mikej412 wrote: » I'd say I had to learn more "new stuff" for the CCVP -- so that probably made it the "hardest." Plus there were no Cisco Press Certification books out when I did it, so you had to almost read everything (Cisco Press CCIE Voice Reading list & Cisco Docs) to find what was actually going to be useful for the CCVP exams.
APA wrote: » If you're planning on doing CCIE:R&S eventually... then I would recommend going the CCIP. I'm currently completing mine after finishing CCNP, it's allowed me to get a better understanding of BGP,QoS and MPLS which will only benefit me career\work wise and in my CCIE quest as well... However if you are working alot with security then getting more experience in the security field would be beneficial and the CCSP would accomodate that as well (not so much expereience.. but the knowledge..) Honestly if I was you though I'd go the CCIP.
