charging ahead.

work has me sitting one more juniper exam (jncia-ssl) which i hope to have out of the way in the next few weeks. after that i decided its full steam ahead towards the ccnp: security with SECURE up first. i used some of the ccie level books when battling the ccnp and was wondering if there are ccie security books out there that would be a good second reference for any of the exams?

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Maced129

so? were you able to take the exam?

hope to hear good news!

nicklauscombs

Maced129 wrote: »

so? were you able to take the exam?

hope to hear good news!

sorry for the delay and glad someone is actually interested haha. between work and a three day long weekend i forgot to post the results.

ANOTHER PASS!

started flipping through the VPN material and will resume full on studies on monday.

SteveO86

nicklauscombs wrote: »

sorry for the delay and glad someone is actually interested haha. between work and a three day long weekend i forgot to post the results.

ANOTHER PASS!

started flipping through the VPN material and will resume full on studies on monday.

Congrats man! You really are charging ahead!

How difficult was FIREWALL compared to SECURE?

nicklauscombs

SteveO86 wrote: »

Congrats man! You really are charging ahead!

How difficult was FIREWALL compared to SECURE?

I found it easier mainly due to the heavy use of ASDM and a decent portion of the chapters focus on what I would call ASA basics: naming interfaces, security zones, routing, etc.... where SECURE jumps right into the professional level topics.

nicklauscombs

got a little sidetrack recently as the datacenter i work at is shutting down operations and i've been focused on picking out a new job and moving up to the Northern VA/DC area. i'm going to cram this weekend at work and do some final labbing and hopefully sit the VPN exam on monday or tuesday.

ChooseLife

Not sure how I missed this thread....

Congrats!! You are going strong and should soon have the whole thing cleared. Awesome progress!

nicklauscombs

VPN exam has been booked for noon today. going to spend the morning playing around in the asdm demo mode and hopefully squeeze out another pass.

alan2308

Good luck!

nicklauscombs

864 and a pass. a lot of real out there questions in my opinion that weren't covered by the cisco press guide but obviously weren't terribly difficult to guess on. next up is IPS.

SteveO86

nicklauscombs wrote: »

864 and a pass. a lot of real out there questions in my opinion that weren't covered by the cisco press guide but obviously weren't terribly difficult to guess on. next up is IPS.

Congrats man! Your almost there!

nicklauscombs

SteveO86 wrote: »

Congrats man! Your almost there!

Thanks, no experience with the Cisco IPS devices so I'm looking forward to diving in and see how they differ from the McAfee devices I've been using for the past year.

SteveO86

nicklauscombs wrote: »

Thanks, no experience with the Cisco IPS devices so I'm looking forward to diving in and see how they differ from the McAfee devices I've been using for the past year.

Are you looking to rent rack time for IPS hands-on?

nicklauscombs

SteveO86 wrote: »

Are you looking to rent rack time for IPS hands-on?

most definitely. i have racktime with ine and ipexpert.