Daniel's CCIE Security Thread

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I never thought I'd end up here, and I still can't quite believe I'm saying it, but I am throwing down the gauntlet: the next stage in my professional development is that I will become a CCIE in Security.
This is a long road and I will not rush to failure, so I am not even close to setting an anticipated lab date or even a hopeful date for the written exam. I intend to take the new version 5.0 written which opens up at the end of January, so I will have eight months at the very least before I can even sit for the easy part - but, again, it's a long road and I am not going to repeat my mistake with the CCNA Security of flinging myself headlong into it, passing the exam, and almost immediately forgetting everything I learned about ASA configuration. Fortunately I have the opportunity to touch all of the technology and concepts that I will be learning about in my current job, so I will be in a much better position to retain knowledge through daily, hands-on practice in addition to studying and labbing.
I have not attempted the CCNP Security, but I am also not going to entirely bypass those four exams. Most of the material will carry over into the CCIE, so I am just going to start on the CCIE topics and take the CCNP exams as check-on-learning events as I ramp up for the Written. That way I'll have some measurable benchmarks, I will recertify my existing certs, and I will have some attainable short-term goals to reach for.
Thanks to Katherine for bullying me into stepping up for the challenge (peer pressure works, kids!), Steve for reminding me to HTFU, Charles for keeping me on track, and RG for the daily grind.
Let's do this!
This is a long road and I will not rush to failure, so I am not even close to setting an anticipated lab date or even a hopeful date for the written exam. I intend to take the new version 5.0 written which opens up at the end of January, so I will have eight months at the very least before I can even sit for the easy part - but, again, it's a long road and I am not going to repeat my mistake with the CCNA Security of flinging myself headlong into it, passing the exam, and almost immediately forgetting everything I learned about ASA configuration. Fortunately I have the opportunity to touch all of the technology and concepts that I will be learning about in my current job, so I will be in a much better position to retain knowledge through daily, hands-on practice in addition to studying and labbing.
I have not attempted the CCNP Security, but I am also not going to entirely bypass those four exams. Most of the material will carry over into the CCIE, so I am just going to start on the CCIE topics and take the CCNP exams as check-on-learning events as I ramp up for the Written. That way I'll have some measurable benchmarks, I will recertify my existing certs, and I will have some attainable short-term goals to reach for.
Thanks to Katherine for bullying me into stepping up for the challenge (peer pressure works, kids!), Steve for reminding me to HTFU, Charles for keeping me on track, and RG for the daily grind.
Let's do this!
CCIE Security - this one might take a while...
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You can do it! I can't wait to follow and learn!
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Good luck! Welcome aboard.
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Master of Science, Information Security and Assurance
CCIE Security Progress: Written Pass (06/2016), 1st Lab Attempt (11/2016)
ISE is my overall priority right now, and I am focused on getting 300-208 knocked out within the next couple of months or so in order to renew my CCNAs for another few years. My plan is to read as much of the OCG as possible, take a note of anything that is new or unfamiliar in any way, study the crap out of those topics, and go back through the guided walkthrough sections with a live ISE system and follow along to get the muscle memory for building policies, authorization rules, conditions, and so on. On test day I won't have time to fumble around wondering where to go to configure a Downloadable ACL (Policy > Policy Elements > Results > Authorization > Downloadable ACLs).
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Not much to report, and I haven't been as structured as I need to be, but I am leaning on the Z2H class to set up a framework for my studying. We'll see how that works out.
Cool. Will be in the same class.
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I am wondering which **** you used for training.
Seriously? Bye
You might be shocked to learn this but he didn't ****. **** aren't studying. They are for window lickers that don't know the technology and fail miserably in technical interviews
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