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My IPexpert CCIE Voice Blended Learning Solution (trying saying that three times fast!) has arrived! I got home on Tuesday night and I had this lovely little package waiting for me:
Woohoo! I’ve been waiting for this little puppy for about a week. It contained all the printed material for the Blended Learning solution: Workbook 1, 2, and 3 as well as a printout of the slides for the Video On Demand DVD.
Notice how I’m also showing off my brand new monitor that I treated myself too when I passed my CCIE (Not as big as the one Keith got when he passed…but hey its not the size that counts, its how you use it!).
IPexpert Blended Learning Solution Workbooks
Workbook 1 contains the “Focus Labs”. This is where all the individual mini-labs are that concentrate on all the technologies on the CCIE Voice Blueprint and where I will be spending the first couple of weeks of my preparation in. It is divided up into 17 different sections, each containing a mini-lab that goes through all the different technologies in a LOT of detail. I’m a strong believer in making sure your foundation is absolutely solid before moving onto doing full-scale labs, so I am planning to do these labs multiple times. This in conjunction with the Video On Demand DVD should make sure my foundation is solid.
There are labs on:
- CallManager fundamentals,
- CME Fundamentals,
- Gateways,
- Gatekeeper,
- Dial Plans,
- Media,
- High Availability,
- Unity,
- IPCC Express,
- CallManager Features,
- Qualtiy Of Service,
- Fax,
- CME Features,
- CUE Fundamentals,
- CUE Features,
- Security
Workbook 2 has full scale labs. 10 of them. I’ll be heading into this after I have gone through Workbook 1. My plan is to do all 10 of them, and then pick 5 of the best ones to do over and over again to really drill it in. I did something similar to this when I studied for my R&S and it worked out awesome. I’ll have to email Vik, or Mark on which ones they recommend.
I think Workbook 3 is the pick of the whole package. The detail in this thing is amazing. See that big pile of books on the right? Thats the proctor guide. Or should that be proctor guides. There are 10 labs and each lab has a book containing explanations as well as a corresponding video of a walk through! Holy crap. I spoke with Matt Brooks this morning and he told me that the first 5 labs of these work with the automatic grading solution that they have.
Here’s a couple of shots showing the format and layout. Notice the screenshots and the detail in the explanation. Also notice my l33t photography skillz!:
(Ohh photo taken at an angle…very arty!)
Check out the screenshots and explanations. Every lab has step by step screenshots detail in the explanations are very good. They are so good in Volume3 that I’m a bit undecided as to whether I should make that workbook 3 as the second phase of my study and then treat the workbook 2 labs as mock labs. With the sheer volume of explanations it would probably make the most sense. Only problem is Workbook 2 labs aren’t automatically graded yet. I think again I will talk to someone at IPexpert about my study plan once I’ve finished with this and get some advice.
DVD slides
You get a DVD workbook as well that has all the slides from the Video On Demand as well as notes on each slide.
It comes with a warning at the start:
This is fair enough. Its not a CCVP course but a CCIE level course. I can’t wait to get my hands on that Blended Learning Solution HDD so I can start watching them! (Anybody at IPexpert wanna throw me some free rack time?…my love can be bought! *evil grin* )
Room with a View
Here is the view from my study. That’s beautiful Melbourne in the background. When we first moved into the apartment I would spend hours looking outside. It was a bit of a distraction but not anymore. My biggest distraction at the moment is Call Of Duty4 (Damn you terrorists!).
Now I gotta get back to that OSPF tutorial. HTH! :
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Hey Arden,
You have gotta nice view from your study place,and the new monitor is really looking good, this monitor should be good to your eyes.
Happy Learning :) :) :)
I really have to question your mental stability at this point :D
How do you get any studying done with that view? I had to put myself in the basement…
Thanks guys! The view is awesome at night, but when I’m studying I don’t really notice it much anymore.
nice, really nice view. i was wondering what etherealmind was saying on twitter when he complemented the view. I caught on after looking at the 1st pic.
really nice view!!!!! have u got any USB drive from Ipexpert?
Haven’t got the drive yet. Apparently there is a new interface and I will be getting the new version. I can’t wait to try it out!
Hehe!
I already passed Call of Duty 4 - amazing game! ;))
Man thats making me jealous. Still working on my R&S. I would love to see your review of IPExpert voice material. I am still not sure if I will go for voice or SP track once I get my R&S.
For a second I thought that was a view of MCG (Melbourne Cricket Ground) lol. Now THAT would be awesome
Arden, great blog..I hope you can do a more in depth review of the material once you make your way through it..I’m looking at ipexpert for voice training also..
good luck!!
@chris You bet I will be doing more in depth reviews as I work my way through the labs!
Hey Arden! I noticed that all your workbooks came printed, is this the norm with this product or did you specifically request printed copies? Thanks!!!
Congrats on your the next journey! We envy you Arden, you have some yummy stuff!
Just need to check out for advise, when I saw some of your post after your CCIE R&S I think I saw a post or comment that says your next aim is the Security track (oh, I think it was on linkedin.com)? I’m just wondering, what are your thoughts when you decided to take voice instead of security?
And do you have any personal blueprint on how to approach this track that you could share? I hope you don’t mind.
Congrats on your R&S and soon Voice!
@Carl I entertained the thought of doing security for a while, but I decided on Voice for the demand, and the challenge. :)
I’ll blog up a post on my personal blueprint.
Hi Arden,
How are you getting on with the IP expert Voice BLS package?
Im hopefully going to look into it when I am done with R&S.
Cheers.