Folks,
Hopefully I will not bore you with this but I need some direction. I'm ready to start working on the CCIE R&S journey at the current point in time I want to start off with preparing for the written. I'm hoping to knock it out by end of Q1. Here is some background. I've worked at at&t for approximately five and a half years of which most of the time was spent as a network engineer I managed to attain the following levels of certification: CCNA, CCDA, CCNP, CCIP. I've re-certified twice now and each time has been getting harder due to my lack of exposure to Cisco products. I currently work as a Systems Engineer at a security hardware vendor: Fortinet. That being said I'm far removed from the day to day exposure to routing/switching as I was at at&t. So I want to start off by doing labs and lecture to prepare for the written. I believe doing this now will help me in getting a really good foundation for pursing the lab later in the year possibly Q2/Q3. What I need help with is determining the best path for CCIE R&S Written preparation that is a mixture of lab/lecture preferably 60%/40% or 50%/50%. I have the CCIE Certification guide from CiscoPress that is geared to version 3.0 and I feel like it may not be enough. Current v4.0 based reading material recommendations would also be greatly appreciated!!!! Thank you in advance for reading this and responding! Happy Holidays! -Abel -- "Let's think the unthinkable, let's do the undoable, let's prepare to grapple with the ineffable itself, and see if we may not eff it after all." — Douglas Adams
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