After completing my CCNP earlier this year I'm interested in advancing and working towards my CCIE. I was looking through Amazon.com for Ciscopress books and lot of the reviews for the CCIE books complain about them being to old and not worth reading. Anyone have any suggested reading? Thanks
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Posted: 04 September 2005 at 4:01pm | IP Logged
Suggested reading, well this is going mostly from what I have heard. It depends on which track you want to take. I would assume that the CCNP books are a good starting point for the Routing and Switching written exam and for the lab you just need to build your own lab or rent rack time, and a lot of it (40 - 100 hours I would think at around $5-10/hour. Then you should buy one of the big expensive lab manuals with several full exam style cisco labs in them that you can practice on.
As for books I would say in any areas you feel weak in, QOS, ATM, VPN, whatever, there is likely a full cisco press book or a book from another publisher solely on that topic alone. There are entire books on QOS, MPLS, OSPF, and BGP in particular that you might want to look into depending on what track you are on. Definitely a lot of OSPF, QOS, STP, and BGP to be expected on the Routing/Switching track and a ton of MPLS on service provider and a ton of QOS on VOICE and a ton of IPSEC, authentication, and Intrusion detection on security.
Cisco likely has lists of recomended reading for the written exams on their site.
Here is the page for the Routing/Switching exam
http://www.cisco.com/web/learning/le3/ccie/rs/preparing_wr_e xam.html
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Posted: 05 December 2005 at 6:04am | IP Logged
The CCIE isn't like other exams in which you can read a book and pass a test... this is the real deal. If you *truly* know your stuff, you can pass. However, you'll need more than a single study guide, AND you'll need real-life hands-on experience with Cisco devices.
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Posted: 05 December 2005 at 9:32am | IP Logged
and lots and lots of, our cisco consultant has taken and failed the lab twice and it sure isn't cheap by any means. And this guy is really sharp, does a real good job for us anytime we need him.
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Posted: 05 December 2005 at 10:09am | IP Logged
Routing TCP/IP Vol 1 not worth reading?? Halibi's BGP not worth reading??? Think the only "old" one is Kennedy Clarke's switching one but does that mean it does not has any value... There is still plenty of old kit out there doing it's job it is not that an exam changes the books need to change as well, My CCIE liberary is also my reference materials combined with CCO....
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