I think that's enough for me... I'm using the CCIE Lab Practice Kit, which has detailed configurations and explanations, and the All-In-One CCIE Lab Study Guide which has basic and a few advanced subjects, and that combo costs far less than $150.
-e- ----- Original Message ----- From: "Chuck Larrieu" To: Sent: Tuesday, October 02, 2001 3:27 PM Subject: Preliminary impressions - NLI CCIE Lab Study Guide [7:21739] > not the labs themselves, but the study prep booklet for which NLI charges > 150 bucks. > > these are preliminary impressions, based upon referring to the guide while > working on various study scenarios of my own. > > so far, the guide strikes me as somewhat shallow. very little detail. a > couple of superficial tips. I have not looked at the ATM or the OSPF > sections yet. These cover quite a few pages, and may offer more detail. > > there are two sections - one for note, the other containing configuration > examples. both sections suffer from the same shortcoming. > > in particular: > > NTP - virtually nothing in the way of detail or explanation. nothing > regarding authentication, for example. no detail on the difference between > NTP peers and NTP client / servers, and more importantly, why you would use > one or the other. > > Filtering - nothing direct. have to find information indirectly, under > things like route-maps and prefix lists. distribute-lists are not covered at > all. > > route-maps - again, pretty basic > > redistribution - this is a major Cisco core topic, yet this guide offers > very few real tips. > > tunnels - very rudimentary. > > Otherwise, in general, I have not found much in the way of clarification of > complex points. My impression is that a lot of these notes are *'s that the > author wrote in his personal study book as he was going along. I am doing > something similar as I go through things. in reviewing, I find that my own > written word does not cover anywhere near what I have discovered as I work. > I tend to * the gotcha's, which in turn trigger associations with the things > I have learned. I suspect this guide is more a compilation of these kind of > sentences. > > When I get into DLSw, SRTB, multicasting, and traffic shaping, I'll check > how this guide stacks up. > > Chuck _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com Message Posted at: http://www.groupstudy.com/form/read.php?f=7&i=21745&t=21745 -------------------------------------------------- FAQ, list archives, and subscription info: http://www.groupstudy.com/list/cisco.html Report misconduct and Nondisclosure violations to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
