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January 30, 2005
I wanna become a CCIE by the end of this year!!
I am a network engineer woking in Tokyo and desparately wanting to get a CCIE to raise my salary and hopefully make a career change so I can obtain more job satisfaction.
To get a CCIE, you've got to study unbelievably wide range of areas in networking technology. To keep my motivation up, I will use this blog and leave study memo here. If I stop, people will know that Ive given up and I hate that. I'll try to take notes of every effort I make until I pass the CCIE R&S exam. This notes should include,
-How much money I spend on studying for this exam:
-What text books I use:
-What Lab training, Online-Rack and other material I use and what I think of them and what I recommend:
-How many hours I study every week or every month:
-What problems I encounter while studying for CCIE and how I resolved it.
-Things I had hard time understanding before and got an answer for later.
-Things I cannot understand yet and want someone's help with.
-Personal web sites or blogs explain network technologies that I find useful for Cisco Exams.
-The new information that I hear from CCIE holders like Mr. Gene who is a respected CCIE trainer based in Tokyo.
-Tech tutorials for the certifications that I already passed which include CCNA, CCNP and CCIP.
I will keep writing this blog until I get the CCIE. My first step would be to pass the written exam. The written exam has just been updated from version 1.0 to 2.0.
I may go for the second CCIE if I pass the first. Well, but it's too early to think of the second one. I'll focos on the first CCIE and see what happens next.
I hope this blog will give anyone interested in getting CCIE valuable information. If there is anyone studying for CCIE, any comment from anywhere in the world is welcome. Let's get certified together!!!
author aglogin : January 30, 2005 01:57 PM
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Hi,
I have decided to start on my CCIE too... R&S Track and if and when I pass that I want to aim for the Service Provider and Security tracks. I have a wife and one cute little 4 month baby so its tough, but the wife is understanding. I will keep you posted on what I am doing - I have just spent 4000 pounds on a CCIE Lab consisting of the following:
CCIE Study Management
Routing and Switching
Books
• Cisco Documentation
• Interconnections: Bridges & Routers, Second Edition (Perlman, Addison Wesley)
• ISDN: Concepts, Facilities, and Services (Kessler/Southwick, McGraw Hill)
• CCIE Practical Studies Volume I (Solie)
• CCIE Practical Studies Volume II (CCIE Self-Study) (Solie)
• CCIE Routing and Switching Practical Labs (Martin Duggan, Maurilio Gorito)
• Inside Cisco IOS Software Architecture (Bollapragada, Murphy, White) (TBP Safari)
• Routing TCP/IP, Volume I (Doyle)
• Routing TCP/IP, Volume II (Doyle)
• Troubleshooting IP Routing Protocols (Aziz, Liu, Martey, Shamim) (TBP Safari)
• TCP/IP Illustrated: Volumes 1, 2, and 3 (Stevens/Wright, Addison Wesley)
• CCNP Practical Studies: Routing (Benjamin)
• Internet Routing Architectures (S. Halabi)
Links
• http://www.cisco.com/en/US/learning/le3/ccie/exam/index.html
• http://www.groupstudy.com/
• http://www.groupstudy.com/links/autolink/generator.php?cat=ciscoweb
• http://www.cisco.com/en/US/support/index.html
• http://www.certificationtalk.com
• http://www.911networks.com
• http://www.cisco.com/univercd/home/home.htm
Service Provider
Books
• Cisco BGP-4 Command and Configuration Handbook (Parkhurst) (TBP Safari)
• Cisco Catalyst QoS: Quality of Service in Campus Networks (Flannagan, Cisco Press) (TBP Safari)
• MPLS and VPN Architectures (Jim Guichard CCIE #2069, Ivan Pepelnjak CCIE #1354)
• Design and Implementation of DSL-Based Access Solutions (Mervana, Le)
• End-to-End DSL Architectures (Vermillion, Cisco Systems)
• Internetworking Technologies Handbook, Fourth Edition (Cisco Systems) (TBP Safari)
• Advanced MPLS Design and Implementation (Vivek Alwayn)
Equipment
Routers
2501 Routers x 1 - 16D/16F, Latest IOS Version 12.3(x) Enterprise Plus
2503 Routers x 3 - 16D/16F, Latest IOS Version 12.3(x) Enterprise Plus
2511 Access Server - 16D/16F, Latest IOS Version 12.3(x) Enterprise Plus
2516 Router/Hub - 16D/16F, Latest IOS Version 12.3(x) Enterprise Plus
2523 Frame Switch - 16D/16F, Latest IOS Version 12.3(x) Enterprise Plus
2610 Router - 64D/16F, Latest IOS Version 12.3(x) Enterprise Plus
2620 Router x 2 - 64D/16F, Latest IOS Version 12.3(x) Enterprise Plus (TBP March)
3620 Router - 64D/16F, Latest IOS Version 12.3(x) Enterprise Plus
4500 Routers x 2 - 48D/16F, Latest IOS Version 12.3(x) Enterprise Plus
Router Modules
Cisco 2600/3600 Series: 2 x NM-1FE2W
2 x 1 VIC-2FXS 2-Port Voice/Fax
2 x 1 NM-1V Voice/Fax Network Module - (TBP April)
Cisco 4500 Series: 1 x NP-1A-MM and 1 x NP-1A-FE modules - (TBP March)
ATM
LS1010 ATM Switch
Catalyst Switches
Catalyst 2926 Switch
Catalyst 5000 Switch
2 x Catalyst 3550 24/48 EMI Switches
ISDN
ISDN Simulator
VOIP
VOIP Phones (TBP June 2005)
Security
PIX Firewall (TBP June 2005)
IDS (TBP July 2005)
VPN Concentrator (TBP August 2005)
Ancillary
Power Surge Protector for 12 elements and an APC Remote Power Master Switch
5 AC Power Cables
3 Ethernet Transceivers – to transform AUI ports to RJ45
Cabling
2 x Octal Cables
Ethernet 5 CAT-5 Straight through and 5 CAT-5 Crossover cables
4 x Cisco SS-DB60 DTE/DCE Smart Serial Crossover Cables to connect 2500 routers to 2600
10 x Cisco DB60-DB60 DTE/DCE Serial Crossover Cables
3 x X25Console Cables
FDDI Fibre Cable
author Nadeem Khan : February 26, 2005 04:09 AM
Hello Nadeem,
Thank you very much for posting a comment.
Looks like you have already equipped youself with nice set of CCIE gears!
Spending 4000 pounds (equivalent of about 800000 Japanese yen)on those equipment tells me you are serious about passing CCIE R&S and more.
I probably cannot afford to spend that much on a CCIE lab, but I am very serious about this exam as well.
>I have a wife and one cute little 4 month baby so >its tough, but the wife is understanding.
It's encouraging to know there is someone like you out there stuyding hard for CCIE.
>I will keep you posted on what I am doing
Yes, please keep me posted on how you are going with studying for this exam. I'd really appreciate your input.
Have you decided when you are gonna take the exam?
Best Regards,
AG
author ag : February 27, 2005 07:51 PM
Hi,
Not much activity on the board since I last posted! I have been extremely busy at work - and am still at work at 10pm. My CCIE R&S studies based on my programme have taken a back seat as I have been covering technologies relevant to my work - i.e. MPLS (CCIP exam), OSPF, Juniper M Series, VPLS, Broadband Architectures - i.e. RFC1483 IRB and RBE, PPPoE, PPPoA - can you tell I work for a telecoms company? I have been covering the CCIE Service Provider syllabus - read about 1/4 of the books recommended by Cisco. My head now really hurts!
Regards,
Nadeem Khan
author Nadeem Khan : March 31, 2005 04:57 AM
Hi,
So are you gonna take the CCIE SP first?
AG
author ag : April 16, 2005 10:18 AM
Hello,
Nadeem did u clear u rtheory and what abt ur lab preparations,r u in full time preparation
what abt QoS and technologies
author nadeem did u clear ur theory : July 22, 2005 08:36 PM
Hello,
Its nice to read,but yet there is any postings after June 30.what hapened iam too trying for the lab exm
i thinkit is a good idea to share the informations and docs too
author Bava : July 22, 2005 08:44 PM