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| darthfeces 2003-05-14, 3:16 pm |
| passed safe w 925
2nd time was the charm.
this wasn't nearly as scary the second time.
i think i even overstudied for the sim
which i skipped the first time.
can't hurt though right ?
it seemed to respond slowly and i had
to retype several times due to not being familiar with the keyboard.
tip
save your config and view it to make sure it looks right.
used smr white paper and boson.
and my routers and pix 501 to practice ipsec encryption.
the print out was down so i have to call cisco to get a copy tomorrow. | |
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| congrat, good to hear you getting this out of the way.
full time on the lab now? | |
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| I passed mine today also!!! Not quite a 925 but I'll take an 847 any day. That sim on the first time made me crazy but I agree, I think I over studied this time. Maybe so much that I forgot a few things that I was confident on the first time. But I'm a CCSP now so I am happy. | |
| anchor40 2003-05-14, 4:05 pm |
| Congrats to the both of you!
Would you recommend waiting to do the SAFE exam after the MCNS/SECURE, PIX, IDS, and VPN exams? In other words, were there a lot of questions from those individual exams and if I have them under my belt, plus knowing the blueprint it should be a lot less difficult?
I'm taking MCNS next week, and was just curious if I should cruise down the individual exams first, then SAFE at the end.
Thanks!
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| darthfeces 2003-05-14, 5:43 pm |
| my written expires in june
i think i'll be re-taking that and take more time to prepare
yes i'd wait and do that last
give the exam time to age.
you're not ccsp until you're all done
so do what makes you most confortable first. | |
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| I found the SAFE the hardest and it certainly does cover the other 4 exams to some extent so it makes sense to do it last. I think my GSEC also helped me with the SAFE, but the GSEC was a lot more difficult than the Cisco by a long shot-a lot more work anyway, | |
| darthfeces 2003-05-14, 6:24 pm |
| i went to sans ny firewall and perimiter
protection in march
i was going to do gcfw,
but chickened out stating that would only delay ccie that much longer.
will you try cissp?
i may try this new security engineering thing
isc2 just announced.
i may do r&s ie and security before sans | |
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| CISSP is next for me (I think) I have the book. I need to do some research and see how different it is from the GSEC. The GSEC is very very broad but I think it is somewhat more technical than CISSP-or so I've been told. I have the Shoh book (however its spelled) and I will start going through it slowly. I would like to go to a SANS next year. I did the GSEC in the Online/Mentor and that was fun. I enjoyed it but would like to attend a SANS session. I need a field trip anyways. | |
| tawrit 2003-05-27, 6:17 pm |
| Congratulations for you guys for passing the exam. The other day I took it but fall short of 17 marks. It was horrible as I relied on Cisco Press Book. Definitely that book is not enough. Now one question for you guys. In the simulator I got to configure the PIX Firewall interface name and speed. I did it. But the line protocol of the configured interface was down. Is that OK? Can you guys help me so that if I take the exam next time, I wish I can pass.
Tawrit | |
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| Sorry, but I can't help on that one. I took the Firewall exam before the sims were in place last fall. This was the SAFE exam I just passed. That is what frustrates me about the sims is that you really know the stuff but you don't know what they expect. Like they really don't mention whether you need to save. I assumed so but then their website simulater tutorial says you don't have to but others say they failed because they didn't save. WHo knows? | |
| wax314 2003-05-27, 7:06 pm |
| The exam sims are that "sims". Provide a limited set of commands and help (3 levels of help I think, any way, this feature it's very usefull to start remembering the commands). The sims only check the command syntax and add or delete the commands from the running-config, any other thing doesn't work (like interface links, ipsec tunnels or any other hardware related function). Some sims accept the wr mem command, some don't. Any way, you can try any command you want, like reload, the sim will tell you that the command isn't supported.
Recomendation: Configure, save and go to the next question. | |
| darthfeces 2003-05-27, 8:46 pm |
| pix interfaces are shutdown by default
did you enable it ? | |
| tawrit 2003-05-27, 11:19 pm |
| Thanks for your comments. The physical interface was up, only the line protocol was down. Therefore, I think that it was not administratively down. What is your suggestion?
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