Training and Preparation breakdown

First off I will be working out of Narbik’s “The Foundation” The Gap from CCNP to CCIE and IE’s Advanced Technologies workbooks. Once I complete these workbooks I will be using Narbik’s Advanced CCIE Routing & Switching, and his Advanced Mock Labs. These work books can be found @ www.net-workbooks.com, www.internetworkexpert.com, or www.micronicstraining.com.

Along this journey I will be anotating witch of these labs can be completed in PacketTracer and Dynamips for those of us on a tight budget it should prove useful.

I will also be refrencing the DocCD Books that I will be reading along the way.

Here is my training and preparation breakdown:

Week1 - April 20th : Frame Relay -
Week2 - April 27th : Frame Relay -
Week3 –May 4th : BGP -
Week4 – May 11th : BGP -
Week5 – May 18th : Bridging & Switching -

---

Week6 – May 25th : Bridging & Switching -
Week7 – June 1st : Bridging & Switching -
Week8 – June 8th : Bridging & Switching -
Week9 – June 15th : OSPF -
Week10 – June 22nd : OSPF -

---

Week11 – June 29th : OSPF -
Week12 – July 6th : OSPF -
Week13 – July 13th : RIPv2 -
Week14 – July 20th : EIGRP -
Week15 – July 27th : EIGRP -

---

Week16 – Auguest 3rd : QoS -
Week17 – Auguest 10th : QoS -
Week18 – Auguest 17th : IP Services, NAT, & IPv6 -
Week19 – Auguest 24th : IP Services, NAT, & IPv6 -
Week20 – Auguest 31st : Security -

---

Week21 – September 7th : Security -
Week22 – September 14th : IP Multicast -
Week23 – September 21st : IP Multicast -
Week24 – September 28th : Culmination
Week25 – October 5th : Narbik’s Advanced CCIE Routing & Switching BootCamp Richardson TX, to acess my progress.

---

This was a great week of training, learning, Labbing, & Testing…

First off I attended Narbik Kocharians CCIE Routing & Switching 2.0 Written BootCamp @ Global Net Training in Plano, TX. Narbik was great; he is a Triple (yes Triple) CCIE with over 30 years experience in this industry. He was contracted out by Global Net to teach this class, but everyone should go check out his company's web site Micronics Training. This BootCamp was unlike any other written BootCamp. We had lecture and books just like any other, but we had a FULL CCIE rack & Tons of Labs to reinforce the lectures. I think Narbik has the full IOS in his head and it shows when you take his classes. To say the least it was an incredible class, taught by a top notch guy.

I passed my written exam with a 916 (Passing was 790 and I had over 100 questions). To study for the written I used the Labs out of Narbik’s 2.0 foundation and Pass4Sure. About 90% of the questions were on Pass4Sure, it was spot on. I went over some core technologies with some of the guys at the College yesterday afternoon and one of them will be testing this next week. I will take a short break this weekend and start hitting the labs hard next week as well.

Good labbing, Best of luck to all test takers this week, and God bless…

3, 2, 1, Blast Off...

First week of real CCIE Prep was such an eye opener...

More to come on this topic tomorrow after the writen exam.