At 3:44 PM +0000 7/13/03, Hemingway wrote: >""Jason Viera"" wrote in message >news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> The individuals writing the book probably aren't privy to any exam content >> changes that are around the corner unless they are a part of the CCIE >team, >> another misconception is that Cisco Press is in close contact with >> technology changes that Cisco Systems is actually working on. What many >> people don't understand is that it takes a while to write and publish a >book >> in a cost effective manner, > >I don't know about the back end production part ( final copy, typesetting, >printing, distribution )
3-6 months, depending on the publisher and priority. Of course, distribution gets variable with the priorities of the booksellers. There may be several months of negotiation before the contract and outline are approved. I've written books in anywhere between 3 and 12 months. > > >One should be reading the command references, reading the config quides, and >concentrating on fundamentals. Any routing protocol over NMBA ( with all >possible combinations for the links ), ISDN backup options, authentication >anyplace it is possible, redistribution between any two porotocols ( with >all possible mechanisms for doing so ). The presence of the 3550's has not >changed any of the fundamentals one needs to master. > >An important Lab skill is finding things on the CD. > >Much as I may or may not like it intellectually, practically speaking, there >is little need to spend time reading RFC's in prep for the lab. I've been >there enough to state categorically that I have seen nothing that made me >wish I spent more time with the RFC's and plenty to make me wish I'd spent >more time with Cisco's docs and with configuring things based on the topics >stated above. I might suggest there's benefit in what I might call reading "beyond" the RFCs, or spending less effort on the protocol specifications and more on the working group mailing list and on the RFCs that introduce extensions to deal with hard problems for the regular protocol. The RIP RFC does have an excellent discussion of split horizon and poison reverse. Harder to read, but there, is a great deal of the underlying principles of redistribution in OSPF. I only really understood BGP after getting the sense of RPSL. RFC1812, the Router Requirements Document, gives lots of answers. Our work on BGP performance, hopefully on its way to getting an RFC number, clarifies ambiguous definitions in 1771 (http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-bmwg-conterm-05.txt) Draft 21 (last I looked) of the revised 1771 is far more accurate and informative. > >The CCIE Lab is about configuring Cisco equipment in a manner that satifies >the requirements of Cisco's test. Nothing more. Nothing less. > > > > >> Jason >> ""NKP"" wrote in message >> news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> > I dont think that the book is all that bad , probably I am an >> > amateur in Security . >> > The thing I still can not understand is why is it that that when >a >> > CCIE Practical Studies book is published by Cisco Press , some of there >> > topics become obsolete in a couple of months or the syllabus changes . A >> > similar thing happened with the Karl Solie book last year for R/S , just >a >> > couple of months after his book was published , they had removed Token >> Ring >> > / IPX from the lab and now they are planning to add IDS and VPN >> Concentrator >> > in the lab , the details of which are not mentioned in this book . >> > >> > >> > Navin Parwal >> > >> > >> > ""Roberts, Larry"" wrote in message >> > news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> > > Just looking to get others opinions on this book. I'm just now to the >> OSPF >> > > chapter, and I have already found several pages worth of mistakes. >> > > >> > > I have an e-mail into ciscopress with a listing of the errors, and I >> > > understand that any first edition will have some, but I'm finding > > critical >> > > mistakes as well as configuration errors that should be obvious, yet >> > somehow >> > > they were overlooked. >> > > >> > > Was the original CCIE:practical studies full of errors as well? >> > > >> > > Maybe I'm expecting to much, but I find myself questioning everything >> that >> > > the authors have written because of the mistakes I have found. >> > > >> > > Not what I was expecting from a CCIE Level book. >> > > >> > > Not trying to slam the authors, just trying to get others opinions... >> > > >> > > Thanks >> > > >> > > Larry Message Posted at: http://www.groupstudy.com/form/read.php?f=7&i=72208&t=72162 -------------------------------------------------- FAQ, list archives, and subscription info: http://www.groupstudy.com/list/cisco.html Report misconduct and Nondisclosure violations to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
