| Dannypf 2001-04-24, 3:09 pm |
| Hi to all,
The following is a post from one of my other study sites. It was posted by someone who just passed the CCIE written. It is the best prep guide I have found:
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/new...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.
11) Lammles'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=...ification.cisco
Best of luck
Danny |