I sat the ROUTE yesterday and...

I PASSED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (Okay I'm sorry, that was a little excessive but hey I'm excited)

Thanks People!!!

Regards,
David

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alan2308

Congrats!

Edit: and it must be asked, what's next?

Daniel333

Great job!

What study materials did you use?
How what of experience did you have?
How long/hours per week did it take?

Any areas of focus you would recommend?

mikej412

davidspirovalentine wrote: »

I PASSED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Congratulations!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Bl8ckr0uter

Congrats. How long did it study?

lol congrats

Congrats!!!!

Congrats!

Congrats, you have the weekend to celebrate.

notgoing2fail

burbankmarc wrote: »

Congrats, you have the weekend to celebrate.

You changed your avatar! why!

rogue2shadow

Congrats!!!!

earweed

Congrats!!!

davidspirovalentine

alan2308- Whats next...hmmm... A quick detour to get my WWSE (Websense Web Security Engineer) and then on to the SWITCH exam! Websense will only take about a month...

Daniel333-

>What study materials did you use?

The WO Official Book... As discussed on this site, it is full of typos... But a great resource regardless. Also used the Quick refrence guide which helped tie everything together the night before the exam.

>How much and what sort of experience did you have?

I work at an ISP... enough said... I work with Cisco everyday and sometimes at rare occasions I get to work with other routing hardware like the Jupiter OS (I know its Juniper but some guy said shitsco to me so I had to fight back with something)... But experience would be 2yrs IT before starting work and 3Yrs on the job (and loving every single day of it)...

>How long/hours per week did it take?

A long journey my friend! I was actually contemplating taking the COMP then I thought yes then I thought no over and over again... Studied for the COMP for 4 months and then decided Its too much to study while working so studied a furthur 4 months only on ROUTE so about 6 months. I study roughly 36 hours a week... 4hrs every day of the week and 8 hrs each day of the weekend... no i dont have a life...

>Any areas of focus you would recommend?

Without violating my NDA I would say PBR, OSPF Area types, Route Redistribution were tough. I dont want to sound sarcastic so dont take this the wrong way but what I did to prepare was print multiple copies of the Exam Blueprint on Cisco site and I kept a copy everywhere I went (Car, Home, Office, Girlfriends house..she didnt like that) and I read it over and over again untill i knew exactly what was coming and how well i knew it.

knwminus,- I studied as hard as I could for about 6 months

mikej412, fly351, notgoing2fail,burbankmarc, rogue2shadow,earweed- thanks for the support!!!

Thanks People,

Regards,
David

Dr_Atomic

davidspirovalentine wrote: »

>How long/hours per week did it take?

so studied a furthur 4 months only on ROUTE so about 6 months. I study roughly 36 hours a week... 4hrs every day of the week and 8 hrs each day of the weekend... no i dont have a life...

David

You studied 4 hrs/day weekdays and 8 hrs/day weekends and it took you 4 months to pass ROUTE at that pace?!

davidspirovalentine

I wanted to be really sure of myself... See the thing is, I haven't failed an exam yet and I don't want to give my employer the satisfaction of saying "Don't worry kid you will get it next time"

Basically,

Regards,
David

Note: Because I put in the hard yards for the ROUTE and the SWITCH I will only need about a month or two at most for the TSHOOT, Look at it that way.