Jahsoul vs CCIE: Official TE Blog
Since I made it official in this thread
http://www.techexams.net/forums/ccie/58320-just-thought.html
I will go ahead and make an official TE blog about my attempt at the CCIE. A little back ground information about me:
Started officially working in IT 5 months ago; starting out as a level 1 help desk tech, moving up to level 2 in 3 months and picked up a few certs along the way. The most important one that I obtained was the CCNA. Now I work as a Network Support Tech at an awesome company but financially, I still have a lot of catching up to do because I gave up a lot to work in this field. I'm not going to stop learning and growing in this field because of financial issue so I began to think. By the time I can afford to take the CCNP, will I want to spend the $600 or should I shoot for the CCIE. After praying about it, discussing it with my wife, and talking to a few people, I chose the latter. This will be an uphill battle because I still have to master CCNP level topics because I even think about moving to expert level. My plan of attack for the written is 20.5 hours of studying a week (10.5 reading and 10 labbing). The books I plan on reading for the written portion are:
*SWITCH Foundations
*Routing TCP/IP Vol 1 and 2
*CCIE Official Exam Guide
The labs that I will be using concurrent with reading those first 4 books will be the ROUTE, SWITCH, and TSHOOT labs, IE Workbook 3 & 4 and any other labs anybody wanna hook a brotha up with on here. lmbo. (hopefully I can get my employer to pick up Foundation 2.0. I heard it was the truth)
After successfully getting through the written portion, I will continue using those lab books while reading:
*QoS exam guide
*Definitive MPLS Network Designs
*Cisco Field Manuals (Router and Switch)
*Developing IP Multicast Networks
*BGP Design and Implementation
I'm always open to suggestions, so if it is something that should be added, removed, or whatever, I'm all ears.
Joey
http://www.techexams.net/forums/ccie/58320-just-thought.html
I will go ahead and make an official TE blog about my attempt at the CCIE. A little back ground information about me:
Started officially working in IT 5 months ago; starting out as a level 1 help desk tech, moving up to level 2 in 3 months and picked up a few certs along the way. The most important one that I obtained was the CCNA. Now I work as a Network Support Tech at an awesome company but financially, I still have a lot of catching up to do because I gave up a lot to work in this field. I'm not going to stop learning and growing in this field because of financial issue so I began to think. By the time I can afford to take the CCNP, will I want to spend the $600 or should I shoot for the CCIE. After praying about it, discussing it with my wife, and talking to a few people, I chose the latter. This will be an uphill battle because I still have to master CCNP level topics because I even think about moving to expert level. My plan of attack for the written is 20.5 hours of studying a week (10.5 reading and 10 labbing). The books I plan on reading for the written portion are:
*SWITCH Foundations
*Routing TCP/IP Vol 1 and 2
*CCIE Official Exam Guide
The labs that I will be using concurrent with reading those first 4 books will be the ROUTE, SWITCH, and TSHOOT labs, IE Workbook 3 & 4 and any other labs anybody wanna hook a brotha up with on here. lmbo. (hopefully I can get my employer to pick up Foundation 2.0. I heard it was the truth)
After successfully getting through the written portion, I will continue using those lab books while reading:
*QoS exam guide
*Definitive MPLS Network Designs
*Cisco Field Manuals (Router and Switch)
*Developing IP Multicast Networks
*BGP Design and Implementation
I'm always open to suggestions, so if it is something that should be added, removed, or whatever, I'm all ears.
Joey
Reading: What ever is on my desk that day :study:
Comments
You have time to watch football? lmbo My wife's an Auburn fan but I'll keep her anyway. I might watch Bama play today if the game's more interesting than the game last week.
This is where I'm blogging also.
Come check it out, read, comment, tell all of your friends, rinse, and repeat!
Routing TCP/IP vol 1 is what I plan on reading next month. And I plan on seeing if we have CBTNuggets for the CCIE written and make MP3s out of them so I can listen to them while working, and then come home and read.
Good progress
I have that book sitting on my desk and I haven't even cracked it. Maybe reading this will light the fire under my ass to get it done lol.
You're doing fine. Unless you have one of those jobs with lots of slacktime you just have to keep chipping away at the studies as time allows. The first year is the worst so have a good one on the study front. It all builds from there!
I have flipped through it. From what I saw, it goes from 0-60 really quick (from associate to expert level material) so that is a reason I've decided to read this instead of ROUTE Foundations.
This first month has been crazy. Hopefully, things begin to even out after book 6 or 7 and a lot more labbing. That's the only thing I hate that I've really limited at. I can run Dynamips all day for routing but focusing on switching with sims suck. I sent an email to one of the guys that they say handles the lab at work and he hasn't gotten back with me so I will try to make due for the time being.
Quick question for anyone who reads this? I might have just browsed through this when I was doing my CCNA or it might be just because I've never encountered it but what is the significance for lowering the cost path for a specific vlan on a switchport? I understand changing the cost of the specific port but the vlan has got me baffled? I just used the word baffle so you know it got me messed up...lol
Understanding and Configuring Spanning Tree Protocol (STP) on Catalyst Switches - Cisco Systems
And congrats on CCNA Security
I figured this out
when I kept reading yesterday. I was under the assumption that the root bridge is automatically the root bridge for all the vlans but it went into detail about having maximum control over the path.
Joey
I ran into a small stumbling block this weekend. Apparently, the quad port NICs that I own (Znyx) gives me an error when I attempt to set the MTU to anything greater than 1500, which sucks because 6 of my ports are set to be trunk ports. I found a patch for the Tulip driver online but I can honestly say that I don't know how to apply the patch. So I have to continue searching for a solution or buy new NICs, which I don't think that I can do now. Ah well, I guess that leaves more time for reading and listening to these mp3's for the time being.
*making theoretical lemonade*
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so everything (Lord willing) will be straight with the lab.
The past 2 days, I've been focusing on STP, Etherchannel, and multilayer switching. Listening to these mp3s are really helping and giving more understanding when I go back and read. These earbuds are killing my ears so I'm about to walk around with the headphones I have hooked up to the MPC 1000. lol. Come home and study for a lil bit before heading out to church.
How are those things holding up for you?
Some people were saying that they couldn't do any dot1q exercises on their Linux box but I honestly don't think that they raised the MTU on the port. By default, each port is set to 1500 MTU and trying to do a trunking exercise won't work because of the added 4 bit tag. So they go blaming the card instead of setting their interface. I might be wrong but I'm just saying..lol
Trying to configure that 2948G-L3 took me out. This is really my first time trying to get indepth with a switch running catos and it showed. lol. I will have to looked up somethings regarding CatOS..