RE: SmartCertify CBT software for study

[Deloso, Elmer G (WPNSTA Yorktown)]

Title: SmartCertify CBT software for study

Don't believe the salesman. If I had to do it again I wouldn't waste my

money on CBT. I've used their MCSE and ICRC products and I think it's

a waste of time and money. Dealing with them is like buying from a used car salesman ( my personal experience).There is no way in the world you'll get near CCNP with sims unless you augment them with real hands-on experience.

My 2 cents.

 

Elmer

-----Original Message-----
From: Taylor, Don [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, October 10, 2000 1:03 PM
To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
Subject: SmartCertify CBT software for study

Does anyone out there have experience/opinions on SmartCertify's (www.smartcertify.com) CBT offerings? I'm looking at possibly purchasing their Cisco IMCR package, which, I'm told, leads one through all sorts of theory about routing/switching (to fill in any gaps your current education left), information about the routers themselves (how the backplane operates, etc.), and includes a section that simulates IOS configuration of everything from setting the hostname to configuring BGP and IOS upgrades. Not only that, but the salesman told me they guarantee that you'll be ready for and PASS your CCIE lab (not written - he was specific) once you can work your way through the whole CBT.

I was a bit skeptical, but he was insistent, so I'm interested in checking it out. But for such a magical product I was expecting the price to be on the order of $5 - $10K. Turns out it's only $1499. A guarantee like that for the price of a router is just too good to ignore, so I wanted to get some feedback from anyone that knows anything about these.

Thanks!

- Don