I used a *bunch* of books to study for this, as well as a lot of material
from CCO. Here are some of the books I used, in no particular order:
Routing TCP/IP by Jeff Doyle
Internet Routing Architectures by Sam Halabi
Bridges, Routers, and Switches by Caslow
Cisco LAN Switch Configuration by Sybex
Building Cisco Multilayer Switching Networks from Mcgraw Hill
Building Cisco Remote Access Networks from Mcgraw Hill
CCIE Written Study Guide from Sybex
CiscoPress Building Scalable Cisco Networks
CiscoPress Wide Area Network Solutions
CiscoPress Cisco Internetwork Troubleshooting
Cisco Security Architectures
CCIE Routing and Switching Exam Cram, which i thought was worthless but in
hindsight it probably covered most of the test.
Add to that list a *lot* of material from CCO, reading through Groupstudy
archives, and a subscription to CertificationZone, which was instrumental in
my passing the test.
Is that enough? ;-)
Good luck!
John
| hi John,
| congratulations on your success in this exam.It's no
| been only you who rates this exam to be very tough.I
| do too and infact i have to tell you that i'ld be
| taking the exam in 3 weeks.Could you please tell me
| what materials books ++ you used to crush this
| exam.I'ld appreciate it.
| Thanks
|
| >chika
|
| --- John Neiberger wrote:
| > I was *so* worried about taking this test. I had
| > been hearing from numerous
| > people how hard it was so I did nothing but cram for
| > the last two weeks.
| > Even after that I still did not feel ready, knowing
| > that there were going to
| > be numerous questions on ATM, OSPF, BGP, IS-IS, SRB,
| > LANE, NAT, Policy
| > Routing, Redistribution, etc.
| >
| > Well, the worrying was for nothing. I passed with a
| > 92%! However, I think
| > that's because I was overprepared for the specific
| > questions I received. I
| > know that each test pulls from a pool of 300 or so
| > questions, but I think I
| > got about 80 of the easy ones.
| >
| > Seriously, I thought that more in-depth knowledge
| > was required to take the
| > CCNP tests. For many of the topics I listed above,
| > I didn't receive a
| > single question! What gives??
| >
| > With that said, some of the questions were
| > difficult, but only because they
| > were the sort that if you didn't already know it, it
| > was tough to guess.
| > The SRB, token ring, OSPF, BGP, and LANE questions
| > were very basic. Anyone
| > with a solid introduction to them and a good memory
| > would be able to ace all
| > of those topics.
| >
| > A few months ago I got a subscription to
| > CertificationZone and I'm very glad
| > I did. I found the real test to be much easier than
| > their practice tests.
| > If you get a subscription and can pass three or four
| > of those exams, you're
| > probably going to be disappointed in the difficulty
| > of the real exam. But
| > that's a good thing! That just means that you'll be
| > very prepared.
| >
| > I may have just gotten lucky with the questions,
| > though. I don't want to
| > make it sound easy, it wasn't. The particular
| > questions just weren't as
| > difficult as I was planning for. I was expecting
| > WWIII and got a minor
| > border skirmish with a small third-world country.
| > :-)
| >
| > I guess that's why they call this a qualification
| > exam. The exceptionally
| > super hard part is yet to come.
| >
| > I see that they've announced the new lab format and
| > now I'm wondering if I
| > should schedule the lab now and plan on taking the
| > two-day version in March
| > of 2002 or so, or should I wait until after Oct. 1st
| > and possibly get the
| > one-day version sooner? Hmm... food for thought.
| >
| > Thanks to all who have helped me so far! (Howard,
| > Priscilla, Chuck, Pamela,
| > Stogieman, Peter, and everyone else I'm forgetting
| > at the moment)
| >
| > I'm now going to go eat dinner with my wife and then
| > sleep for the rest of
| > the weekend!
| >
| > Regards,
| > John
| >
| >
| >
| >
| >
| >
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