Hi Keith,
I'm cutting and pasting a posting I did on the networkstudyguide.com website
after I passed the CCIE written at the end of April. I hope this helps -
it's not a 'single' source but gives you a good foundation...
Alright, enough with all the pleasantries, just wanted to give everyone a
heads-up on how I conquered the written (now on to the true beast - the
lab - gulp!)
Like has been written before, the CCIE written isn't too much harder than
the CCNP questions - just the breadth of the subjects is so much more
diverse. I was actually quite shocked at my test - after reading all those
posts about RIF's and token-this and bridge/ring-that and canonical
addresses - I was expecting a large percentage of the test to be devoted to
those areas which I never-ever use. Well guess what - I think that I had
maybe 6 questions on tokens and bridges - no RIF's, no canonical addresses -
I want to write What a waste! but can't feel guilty after knowing more
than before.
I want to list all my sources that I used in preparation for the test so
everyone can see how I prepared. In order of relevance to the test my
studies included:
1) CCDP - cornerstone of Cisco logic. You're almost there when this is done.
2) CCNP - questions are similar in testing ability.
3) BSCN class - took the class a week ago even though I had my NP knocked
out in November. Class very relevant to the CCIE written - probably 40% of
the written I knew from that class alone.
4) Boson tests 1 and 2 by Bernard O. Kept a tally going during the CCIE
written - over 40 questions on the CCIE written also in the Boson tests (or
very similar). Can't say enough about them.
5) CCIE notes from sitamoht.com. Started reading the notes a few days ago
and found them extremely relevant and hit some topics in a different light.
http://sitamoht.com/cciewe.html
6) Lou Rossi's token ring paper from CCPrep.com. Yeah, yeah, I know, I wrote
that I didn't have that many token questions but this is the paper that made
me prepared for whatever they threw .
http://www.ccprep.com/resources/news/archives/Token_Ring2.pdf
7) RIF generator from Chad Dixon (member of this site). Again, I know that
RIF wasn't big on my test but Chad's cool little site helped get the RIFs
down cold. Thanks Chad!
http://www.loopy.org/rif.cgi
8) Newserver from Groupstudy.com - groupstudy.com's newsgroup rocks, it's
free, and it's very busy. And with help from sources such as L. Oppenheimer
(Top Down Network Design - CiscoPress), H. Berkowitz (various BGP papers and
books), John Swartz (co-wrote Sybex's CCIE study guide with Lammle) you
can't go wrong.
9) Archives from Groupstudy.com. Thousands of posts from people that have
had questions just like us - search and your questions will be answered!
http://www.groupstudy.com/cgi-bin/wilma/cisco
10) This site with posts from Egraus and lpgao. - search hard. from
networkstudyguide.com, not groupstudy stuff.
11) Lammle's Sybex CCIE Study guide - good if you can only carry around one
book for the CCIE - not enough though but gets your feet wet.
12) Caslow's routing book - we've all seen the reviews - a must for the lab
and a great review for written. Will admit - Boson's tests (ie - Bernard's
tests) references the Caslow book an awful lot for questions.
13) Google's site - used to be Deja's site. Not as active as it used to be
but still a great studying spot.
http://groups.google.com/groups?oi=djqas_ugroup=alt.certification.cisco
14) I bought a subscription to CertZone. Before the test I thought it was
a great site. After taking the test, I now look back and think I could have
utizlized my time better elsewhere. The tests they have are much more
difficult than the CCIE written. Can't blame someone though for trying to
make one smarter. They're docs are great and I plan to use the for the
labs.
Well, that's about it. I hope my list helps others as well as it has helped
me. Also, I would like to thank everyone that has contributed to this site -
my membership runs out within a couple of weeks and I probably won't rejoin.
Bought the subscription for one year and have gone from no Cisco certs to
NA, NP, DA, DP and now IE (written)!! Whoo-hoo (girlfriend just doesn't
understand)
Good luck to all,
S
PS - if you need to find me - I'll be at the lab alter preparing to be
sacrificed!!
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