Scott Morris Joins Internetwork Expert

Man this is huge news. Scott Morris joins the all-star team at Internetwork Expert! Scott Morris, Quad CCIE, Uber Geek, The man behind that lab, has officially joined Internetwork Expert. Scott was Vice President of Technical Training at IPexpert where he delivered and developed CCIE classroom training.

Blog: CCIE:R&S…Done…Now What?

After doing what anybody passing their CCIE does (killing brain cells with beer), I had time to reflect on what has been an awesome year so far. I’ve had emails from all around the world, calls from family and friends congratulating me. But you wouldn’t believe how many emails, and conversations I’ve had that contained the question “What are your plans next? Now what?”…

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Blog: My CCIE story….

I have been waiting to write this post. I am just so deliriously happy right now. Before I start, I want to thank my beautiful wife for her support. She was that voice I heard in my head that told me to just keep going, and never give up when I’d lost hope. I’m glad [...]

Internetwork Expert Brainteaser #1 Solution

Richard Bannister has proposed 4 solutions to the Internetwork Expert Brainteaser. They are great examples, especially on how to match certain fields of a Layer3 packet using Cisco Flexible Packet Matching (FPM).

Blog: 10 Days to go…Last Mock Lab Done!

“Knowing is not enough. We must apply.” -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.

I just finished Mock Lab 7 which is the hardest of the Mock Labs. I should probably rephrase that…it is the Mock Lab with the highest difficulty rating. I actually thought this one was easier than Mock Lab 4 (which is the spawn of satan! lol). I answered everything. There were plenty of tricky questions but each question was fairly independent of the others so if you stuffed one up, it didn’t really effect any other question. Couple of things I had to figure out because I had never done before, but that is where the DocCD really helped.

DocCD Reading List

I was putting together some notes on what DocCD chapters I should read and I found this from Internetwork Expert: CCIE R&S DocCD Recommended Reading List. Now why didn’t I know about this before!? :)

Blog: 28 days to go….A day in the life of a CCIE candidate

4:45am: Crawl out of bed. I went to bed at around 11pm last night, and couldn’t really get to sleep. My brain just wouldn’t unwind, and I kept thinking about a redistribution problem i was trying to solve. My quality of sleep has definitely gone down lately. I’ve been doing a minimum of 12 hours a day on labs, and then about an hour watching COD videos before dozing off. I think i need to take a rest day sometime soon. Maybe just watch COD videos all day, otherwise I think I will burn out.

Blog: 68 Days to Go….

After reading through the fantastic (and inspirational!) CCIE in 3 months blog I’ve decided I need to get more organised. His post on his dynamips environment contained something that literally caused me to sit up and say “now why the heck haven’t i been doing that!”. In the post is a picture of a pdf file, that he fills out after each and every lab that he completes to grade himself.

Blog: CCIE Practice Lab Built

I’ve got my own practice labs! Well it’s not really mine, but work has graciously let me do my CCIE prep on the BSCI gear they have. What this means is that when a BSCI class is not running, I can use it for my CCIE lab prep. We run a BSCI class about once a month, so that means the rest of the time its mine! The BSCI kit consists of 14x 2600 routers, 1x 2522, and 1x 2950. I’ve cabled it up to mimic the Internetwork Expert Topology (minus the 4 switches!). All the 2600’s are cabled into the 2950, and the 2522 acts as an 8 port Frame-relay switch for 8 of the 2600’s.

Study Tip: CCIE Practice Lab Strategy

I was reading through the GroupStudy archives and stumbled on this fantastic thread on another CCIE study strategy. In the thread, Brian Dennis from Internetwork Expert notes that a highly successful approach that they recommend for some candidates is “taking only 5 or 6 full scale labs and do them 4 or 5 times each. Then during the last week or two before the real lab taking 2 or 3 additional full scale labs and them once or twice each”.

Internetwork Expert Blog!

This showed up in my RSS feed today: Internetwork Experts’s CCIE Blog! Looks great! Both Brians already have a posted a couple of great articles. Looks like another great CCIE blog that I will be subscribing to.

Blog: My New Study Strategy

I’ve been thinking about the way that I have been preparing for the lab, and I think I am going to change tactics. So far I have been working through the Internetwork Expert labs. Whenever I come up with a problem with a particular topic, I lab as much as I can on that one topic. I usually complete some of the exercises related to that topic from Workbook 1, and then watch the excellent class on demand videos. This has helped really solidify my knowledge in some of my key weak areas (QoS, Multicast)….

Dynamips Lab Workbook 2

Internetwork Expert has announced that they will be releasing part 2 of their popular Dynamips workbook. Workbook 2 will be released on January 15th 2008 and consist of labs 11-20 from the standard R&S Workbook Volume 2. This is great news for CCIE R&S candidates using Dynamips to prepare for the lab. Check it out [...]