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--On 12 August 2003 13:45 +0000 "Reimer, Fred"
wrote:
>
> You should have six weeks to go through it. I'd
> suggest taking a day off or spending a Saturday to go through the whole
> course, but that's just me. I can't do the one hour here and there thing.
Hmmm, you should try running through the knowledgenet course after work in
the evening, then heading back into the office at midnight and configuring
your first concentrator before 8:30am when people start arriving for their
days work. That wasnt fun :-)
>
> They also include "labs" or simulations of setting up the hardware.
> However, they don't have an actual lab. I think they are working on that,
> but I found it very useful to have a "real" 3000 available to go through
> the menus.
>
Yep.
> I have a side question myself. Cisco changed their specialist program, so
> that now apparently there isn't a Firewall Specialist, VPN Specialist, and
> IDS Specialist, but rather just one Security Specialist. So does that
> mean that I can't use the "VPN Specialist" designation anymore and have
> to wait until I pass all of the tests? What about that INFOSEC
> designation, is that still valid?
>
I think you have things in reverse. The Security specialist cert is being
/ has been retired. The three new specialist exams and CCSP replaced it.
If you are interested, I expressed my opinion on that change in some detail
(either on this list or security ie dot com) a while back. (I wasnt very
complementary about the new specialist certs)
Regards
Peter Walker
CC[NID]P, CISSP, CSS1, etc
(yeah, my current employer is a reseller)
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