A month of hardcore stydying !!

With my lab date in sight, I spent the whole may studying with anxiety !! Thats something I must work on & free my mind of.

I am done with Rip, Eigrp, OSPF, BGP (in short IGP & BGP) with multicasting. I am not very confident with mbgp & dvmrp stuff which i work on again.

I must tell that I am a very happy customer of Internetwork expert especially with their ver5 volume 1 stuff, Its simply good !! Some topics are dealt with very nicely & its overwhelming.

Yet, I am looking @ another vendor whom I can get a different perspective. Both IPexpert & Narbik materials are recognized but am really not in a position to afford either of them.


So whats up for june ...

IPV6, FR which am very well versed with.
QOS, Security & IPservices
Switching will be the last topic I will be dealing with.

I hope I keep up with my schedule !!

choosing ccie rack rental

choosing rack rental for practice is vital. I have used cconlinelabs & was happy with their equipment. They had the 2800 for the routers with 3550 switches. Its decently priced @ 15$ & 25$ sessions which is think is fair game. I do beleive there are other vendors out there but I have not tried any of them, so I dont know how they work out.

The best part is that they support multiple training material vendors such as IE, IP, NMC, Micronics.

The training matrerial provides themselves have the racks for rental so thats the second option.

I have the racks booked for the weekends as its the only time I have to practice. I hope to make the most out of it.

Target Lab Date Set !!

Wow !! I am nervous, excited, tensed ... all because I have my lab date blocked in October. I don't know if I will be ready by then. I dont know if I am ready for it now. But, I really don't have a choice.. I cant keep studying all through the year. I am gonna take the plunge.

I have only one choice now, study & take up the lab. No matter what happens I will go for it @ full pace. Got to book some rack session & mock labs. Will post my progress as I come up with some :)

wish me luck !!

Cisco Revises CCIE R&S with 4.0

Cisco has done some major change to the R&S track this time with the rollout of 4.0 exam. Both written & Lab have got a serious makeover. Apart from the technologies included in the exam, the whole exam format has changed.

The exam for has sections;

* Open ended question
* Troubleshooting
* Core lab configurations


The topics included in the exam are IPV6 eigrp & MPLS in th lab.

Wowo quite a revelation !!!

for detailed information checkout

For Written exam and Lab Exam

CCIE IGP - RIP

Wowo .. am learning more configuration for rip ... howzzat .. that's the beauty when we prepare for our CCIE. We think we know it all of it, yet there is lot more of it .

My journey is getting interesting day by day. I have certain targets set. I hope to attain it ASAP. I was looking for a number before 25000 but that seems to have taken a kick. No matter what the number, I will mold myself to be a expert.

ok, as far as RIP is considered I have got the configuration , authentication, updates & timers , version control, redistribution, metric adjustment, filtering, usage of route maps & prefix lists.

Well there is more to it than I have mentioned & knowing that is the true beauty of being the expert. Reading through the topics you think ah I know it all .. well thats what I thought until I realized there are more small things that matter :)


Anybody looking for a ccie study buddy let me know :) will be glad to join & PS am working on igp part of things ...