Hands on lab time is an essential part of passing the CCIE I think I have read that the average CCIE in R&S has an average of 400+ hours of rack time. (Marko and Tyson will know better than I)
If you do not work with the equipment then it will be very difficult to pass Perhaps that will help answer your question - -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Smail Milak Sent: February-20-11 2:43 PM To: [email protected]; [email protected] Subject: [OSL | CCIE_RS] To give up CCIE SP and change to R/S? Hi, I checked the SP blueprint a few times and I think that it will be pretty hard to study some topics like Packet over SONET, 10GE and VPLS without the hardware, Plus it is not known to me when IPX will update their books. Is it smart to change to R/S? I have already the IPX SP books. Until now I covered only the IGPs, BGP, Multicast and MPLS TE. In the last three months I have not learned for CCIE SP because I had to learn for some other certs (CCNA Sec, CCDA and CCDP). In 1-2 Months I will hopefuly have my CCDP. I took a look at the R/S blueprint. It looks interesting and I think that I will rather encounter the R/S topics than the SP ones in my job. These are my arguments for a change to R/S: - No High-end hardware needed - Bigger online community - Topics are more real world than the SP topics (in my job) - Cisco 360 Learning program (I dont know if the IPX courses are better, or cheaper) What do you guys think? _______________________________________________ For more information regarding industry leading CCIE Lab training, please visit www.ipexpert.com _______________________________________________ For more information regarding industry leading CCIE Lab training, please visit www.ipexpert.com
