Get the Caslow CCIE book and the Hutnik & Satterlee CCIE Lab Study Guide (119 hands on labs) as a minimum.
The McGraw Hill Cisco Access Lists Field Guide is pretty good, you need the official Cisco Press BCMSN book for switching, the BCRAN book has some fluff but it does parallel the exam pretty closely. I used the http://www.boson.com exams for prep and I found them to be dead on for all four exams. To handle 75% of the Hutnik & Satterlee labs you'll need a router with four serial ports to serve as a frame relay switch, two other routers with at least one serial port, and some sort of ISDN access. If you can roll the fourth router I think it covers all the lab bases. ISDN is the big trick for CCNP if you don't have hands on with it - try and get a single line for home and share the spids between two 2503s using an NT1 - much cheaper to pay six months of ISDN service than to find a teltone or adtran box for ISDN emulation. Dave Bradshaw wrote: > > I am about to embark on my CCNP training, I would be very grateful for any > advice as how to go about getting this Cert. At present I am gathering lab > equipment for home use, does anyone have any suggestions as to what equipment > I should get? i.e. what is essential & what is nice to have! Also if anyone > can recommend any good study guides, or places to look for relevant > information, (obviously I've found one good place :-) ). I think it may be > worth mentioning I don't presently work in a Networking environment, I am an > Engineer on Networked peripherals, which is what has got me interested in > this > field in the first place. I passed my CCNA earlier this year. Any advice most > gratefully accepted. > > Dave -- Neal Rauhauser CCNP, CCDP voice: 402-301-9555 mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] fcc : k0bsd "I've seen the angels wearing their disguise, ordinary people leading ordinary lives" - Tracy Chapman Message Posted at: http://www.groupstudy.com/form/read.php?f=7&i=54630&t=54623 -------------------------------------------------- FAQ, list archives, and subscription info: http://www.groupstudy.com/list/cisco.html Report misconduct and Nondisclosure violations to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
