Hi Group, I'll respectfully contest Hisham's comment that the solution offered to SP students at the moment by IE is better - it isn't - and I'm putting my money where my mouth is. :-)
The current IPExpert Service Provider materials are being revamped in July by Marvin Greenlee, and I'll be assisting him. I'm also simultaneously using those materials and ONLY those materials for preparation for my lab in August. I sent out an email a couple of weeks ago looking to get this list active and to announce my plans. So here they are: over the next month I'll be working through all of the technology based labs in our workbook and, along with Marvin making any changes/improvements I see as necessary. If anyone else wants to assist me, just purchase the current workbooks (if you haven't already) and work along with me. When the new product is released you'll get a new copy of the updated materials for Volume 1 and 2 of the next version (which is always the case when we update our materials - existing customers get the new ones). What I'm saying is that the *current* IPexpert materials are good enough to get me through (and should be for you as well) and I'll add all my own notes to the new version (as well as Marvin's updates too). Some of those notes will be posted in this list via the form of comments, and those challenges people communicate to me as they work through the workbook will inspire my notes. So you know the score - my study starts tomorrow (albeit I've done my written exam already and have a few things up my sleeve in terms of additional knowledge - I'm not just a pretty face). :-) When my blog goes live in a few weeks I'll blog about my study, but until then, I'll post in this list on OSL *every day* that I study (and I don't study every day, nor do I recommend anyone does) letting you know what I'm doing. If you work along with me I'll discuss things with you and Marvin will assist us all with guidance so that we can compress the timeframe for people to get ready for their exam. For those of you who work *with* me in July/August you will be especially well prepared to either sit on the Service Provider bootcamp here in Columbus, OH which is running August 18-22 to polish you in your preparation or take your lab directly (if you're a gambler). You don't get offers much better than this (the chance to study alongside an instructor day by day) and once I've paid for my exam I'll let you ALL know the date, so pass or fail the whole world will see. I'm 2 for 2 right now and have enough faith in our materials that I'll bet my success rate on them (and IPexpert are already going to bet my exam costs on it too so we all have skin in the game). Let me know if you're in (and a training advisor too if you need to purchase any materials), and please email the whole group with your questions as we work together in the coming month or two - this is a team game, where we all get to win. :-) Chat later. Cheers, Jared Scrivener CCIE2 #16983 (R&S, Security), CISSP Technical Instructor - IPexpert, Inc. Telephone: +1.810.326.1444 Fax: +1.810.454.0130 Mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] _____ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Hisham El-Ezaby Sent: Sunday, 29 June 2008 7:22 PM To: Nouman, Khan; [email protected] Subject: Re: [OSL | CCIE_SP] Just Joined - Is the list active? Hello Nouman , IE products are number one in the SP track. I suggest you focus on the 10 full day labs and do them several times. Also it would be a good idea to read IPExpert and ccbootcamp products. No need to lab them up. Regarding the topics you mentioned , here are my recommended resources which i have personally used : 1- SP QoS ------> End to End QoS design (Cisco Press) + CCO documents 2- SP Multicast ------> Interdomain Multicast Solutions (Cisco Press) + Developing IP Multicast Networks (Cisco Press) + MPLS and VPN architectures vol 2 chapter 7 (MVPN) 3- L2 VPNs/AToM ---> Layer 2 VPN architectures (Cisco Press) 4- TE -----> Traffic Engineering with MPLS (Cisco Press) I suggest you stay away from MPLS Config on Cisco IOS software as it has lots of technical issues and printing faults. However , you can just keep it as a quick reference for any MPLS related topic but not as your foundational resource. Thank you. ================= Hisham El-Ezaby Networking Engineer CCIE# 21190 (SP) ================= ----- Original Message ---- From: "Nouman, Khan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [email protected] Sent: Sunday, June 29, 2008 4:36:44 PM Subject: [OSL | CCIE_SP] Just Joined - Is the list active? Hi, Just joined this list. I hope this list is not as quiet as the GS CCIE SP list. Can anyone give his views regarding SP products by IPExpert. I am using IE products right now.Do you think it is still necessary to buy IPExpert Workbook or may be CCBootcamp? Also if you people can give ur suggestion on preparing the following topics, * SP QOS * SP Multicast * L2 VPNs/AToM * TE I found "MPLS Configuration on Cisco IOS Software" as the best resource for SP preparation. Hope to hear some gud comments. Regards, Nouman
