RE: OT CCIE materials

To up to that the advanced workbook follows an atomic no nonsense approach to each single technology item really focusing on the core of it using a simple topology resulting in much higher retention, at least for me.

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-----Original Message-----
From: robroutt74_at_gmail.com
Sent: zaterdag 11 december 2010 22:11
To: ccielab_at_groupstudy.com
Subject: OT CCIE materials

I know some of you have had the luxury of attending one of Narbik's more
recent boot camps and are possibly in possession of his TS book in addition
to the latest boot camp materials. I received them recently being a
previous student and I wanted to comment on them for anyone looking for a
very complete solution to your studies and a fresh approach from Narbik and
Co.. Narbik's new books have changed a little bit and I believe it has been
for the better. In previous versions of his workbooks, it seemed like there
were a lot more reloads; which really detracted from solid focus on the
technology for me. I know some of us got around this with the configure
replace command, but his new lab books don't require this near as often. I
have spoken to other candidates who've regarded his previous materials as
complete, but somewhat like a lot of individual tech focused labs. I can
tell you the new format contains all the technology with typically 8-13
devices per lab. This creates the complexity most like the real lab IMO,
but still tech focused; which I prefer. I just finished the EIGRP section
for example. It was about 70 pages long and contained about 45 tasks(no
reboots). I had 9 separate EIGRP instances running across the topology with
mutual redistribution, multiple path manipulation, tagging, etc. Now, to
some of the speed typists out there, that doesn't sound like much, but to
really get the technology and the feel for EIGRP filtering, redistribution,
timers, load-balancing, leak-maps, metric calculation, summary routes,
default routes, etc. this lab would demand about 6-8 hours of keyboard time
along with note taking if you do that. I am almost done with the Boot Camp
workbook and I can tell you this is by far his best work yet for those of
you that have some of his older work.

Just to clarify for some of you, I don't work for Micronics and Narbik
doesn't pay me or ask me to send this, I send it because I think there are
a lot folks out there looking for reviews of great products and boot camps
that will help them ultimately pass the lab, but I think more importantly,
learn the technologies. No 007 or ninja commands or configurations, just
in-depth examples and explanations. If you want more info on my experiences
with his materials or anyone else's I can comment on, feel free to unicast
me. If I haven't given it a fair shake, I won't comment on it..

Happy Labbing!

-Rob

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Received on Sat Dec 11 2010 - 22:39:51 ART