:awesome:
I need to re-cert on CCNP-Security, but that's just one test. My bigger goal might be helping my son to get his CCNA and to get started on his IT career. Of course, he already knows the most important part of IT operations:
:itcrowd:
EDIT: I just realized, I can/should/ought to get started on my CISSP cert. Time to get some books and stuff. Nothing says "senior security architect that should be way overpaid" like a CISSP. And I wanna be that guy. C:-)
New job has asked me about getting VCP certified three times in my first week and since I can get the VCP-NV without the pre-req's until January 31st, 2016 I'll be studying that pretty heavily over the next two months. After that I'm thinking I'll resume CCNP R&S and then on to F5-CA to appease the job requirements.
CCNP-DC, then CWNA (its on my KPI... goddammit), then VCIX-NV.
I would probably prefer not to bother with the first, but I have a big knowledge gap re: FI and UCS and I'm also getting put into a role where there will be a lot of design work around a new 7k+OTV deployment (as per standard operating procedure if you're a customer, you buy the hardware, then you ask your SI what to do with it....). Since I already have the INE CCIE DC workbook and a TON of leftover rack tokens, why not eh - it will be refreshing to cruise through the advanced technology labs with no pressure coz you're just getting exposure, not stressing about memorising it all for the lab exam :)
I've also been asked to tool up on sourcefire, but since I already have my CCNP-Sec, there's not a lot of incentive to actually do the exam. Ditto with ISE.
Routerdork, hit that VCP-NV hard and you'll ace it - run out and buy/build/cobble together a 32Gb whitebox and start labbing!
Yeah, for Sourcefire and ISE, I'd just go with exposure to the tech. For ISE, I would absolutely recommend reading the book on 802.1X in the networking bookshelf thread. That book is indispensable. Read that first, in fact, and then a lot of what ISE does and the way it does it will fall into place.
Quote from: deanwebb on November 17, 2015, 08:33:43 AM
EDIT: I just realized, I can/should/ought to get started on my CISSP cert. Time to get some books and stuff. Nothing says "senior security architect that should be way overpaid" like a CISSP. And I wanna be that guy. C:-)
On that topic, you might want to look at TOGAF as well. I'm thinking that could be some suit-friendly low hanging fruit (i can't bear the thought of formally studying ITIL or PMBOK!)
Funnily I was also thinking a CISSP might benefit, though I'm not a security specialist they keep giving me firewall and security gigs so...... I've definitely implemented enough 'perimeter security solutions' to qualify. Let me know how you go with the latter, I'm definitely picking up on the former. How hard can it be, its not even technical AND its still multiple choice mwhahahahaha
Thanks for the dot1x tip. We do a lot of work with Clearpass (which is usually our go-to for identity, esp. wireless identity/dot1x/NAC), so might pay to read something vendor neutral..
I'll look into the TOGAF, that looks like some possible fun. And I've actually dabbled in PMBOK before.
JNCIS-ENT and renew my CCNP. After that I'll start reading some of the CCIE books I bought recently
Got to renew that CCNP in 2016 too, may be a bit difficult with the brain injury, concentration and memory are still a bit messed up. hopefully that will all clear up shortly. and I can get back to study.
Quote from: ristau5741 on November 18, 2015, 07:33:37 AM
Got to renew that CCNP in 2016 too, may be a bit difficult with the brain injury, concentration and memory are still a bit messed up. hopefully that will all clear up shortly. and I can get back to study.
Studying a difficult topic is actually a very good way to improve brain function after an injury. Frustrating as hell, but much better for you in the long run than waiting for it to "heal up", because it won't really heal up until you start to go down the tough road of hard study and challenging mental activities.
Quote from: wintermute000 on November 17, 2015, 04:02:31 PMRouterdork, hit that VCP-NV hard and you'll ace it - run out and buy/build/cobble together a 32Gb whitebox and start labbing!
I've already been reading the Design Guide and yesterday started going through what was needed for my lab. Found some good blog posts that give a good idea of how to get it going. I think the only thing I have left to search for is the NSX OVA. I've got a PowerEdge R710 with 64GB and Dual Six-Core Xeons so I'm stoked to be able to put it to use.
I've got an almost identical setup (DL380G6 - 2x X5650 hex core, 60Gb) and it comfortably hosts a 7 node (2x2 compute cluster, 1x3 edge cluster) nested environment with NSX manager, Vcenter and AD on top. Don't be afraid to overcommit - you'll never actually hit the wall with lab VMs, most of their RAM is unused.
Ordered my CISSP books and got my son started on Wendell Odom's CCNA material, Packet Tracer, and GNS3.
Also ordered those Diablo USB-RJ45 console rollover cables, one for me and one for my boy.
Good times, this Christmas.
Quote from: deanwebb on November 24, 2015, 03:35:54 PM
Ordered my CISSP books and got my son started on Wendell Odom's CCNA material, Packet Tracer, and GNS3.
Also ordered those Diablo USB-RJ45 console rollover cables, one for me and one for my boy.
Good times, this Christmas.
Dude that's so awesome. I hope my son follows in my footsteps - that would be a blast.
Got a server at home now with a bunch of CentOS VMs. I might just go for RHCSA. Change of plan I know.
Quote from: Reggle on November 25, 2015, 12:18:33 AM
Got a server at home now with a bunch of CentOS VMs. I might just go for RHCSA. Change of plan I know.
For fun or for career direction?
Both. I personally want to get better at Linux, and although I don't require a certification I do touch Linux a lot more on my current job.
Quote from: Reggle on November 25, 2015, 02:06:23 PM
Both. I personally want to get better at Linux, and although I don't require a certification I do touch Linux a lot more on my current job.
I might get one, as well... I had to run a few commands on a Linux-based appliance and now, suddenly, I'm the team "Linux expert". :lol:
The inability of Microsoft tards to grok Linux is hilarious AND profitable for those with >3 brain cells and access to Google. When I learnt Linux I remember having to dual boot back into Windows to read instructions to how to bloody compile the wireless driver just to get online, modern distributions / appliances are a cakewalk
Somebody with the name config t may have recently been hired by an undisclosed company to help integrate networks and be the on-site support engineer for a swathe of southwest asia.
I've been learning as much Brocade as possible. So far it's about 90% similar to Cisco and I am rather enjoying it. All open source!
Brocade have great bang/buck for core R&S products last time I looked. They're also big enough of a name so managers don't get the 'but its not cisco' shakes too bad.
Reggle, I know the RHCE is regarded as difficult, where is the RHCSA? CCNA-ish or CCNP-ish? And is it just a written exam or labbed?
Quote from: wintermute000 on December 06, 2015, 07:26:01 PMReggle, I know the RHCE is regarded as difficult, where is the RHCSA? CCNA-ish or CCNP-ish? And is it just a written exam or labbed?
As soon as I've given it a go, I'll let you know.
I failed to achieve my goals this year but have just accepted a new job. I will be starting the new year eager and raring to go- hoping to get the MCSA 2012 or CCNA depending on time and resources- the new place apparently values training it's staff, a luxury I haven't previously had in my IT roles without teaching myself :rock:
From last year's thread:
QuoteWorking on CCIE R&S. Hope to make an attempt around October or so. I'll also need to re-up my written, I passed the v4 written over 18 months ago.
No attempt made, and failed the v5 written in June at Cisco Live. Moving this year took a big toll and time and motivation. Have recently started getting back into the swing of studying, but not at a fast enough pace. :(
I need to re-cert my CCNP, etc. by June so I'll be taking some test later this spring. Hopefully another shot at the written if I can manage to study enough. Otherwise I'll cheat and do one of the current CCNP R&S exams.
Quote from: 1KrazyFool on December 10, 2015, 11:08:36 AM
Otherwise I'll cheat and do one of the current CCNP R&S exams.
it ain't cheating, I'm going to do one (probably switch, as I hate the idea of the troubleshooting one) next year myself.
Seems like all the other tests are too UCS oriented, or delve into appliances that I can't get my hands on, or exams with no proper certification books. blueprints seem too vague if you ask me.
You guys will clear the TS without breaking a sweat. Our resident wireless guru who has been doing nothing but wireless deployments for the last 3 years (i.e. zero route/switch aside from fiddling with the odd switch setting and/or 802.1x) cleared it in 15 minutes with no studying, and yes, it was purely to re-cert his CCNP R&S lol.
so cannot be motivated to study..... been meaning to crack on with CWNA but I keep getting to chapter 7 (out of 30), getting bored, not reading for a week, then I have to re-read it again as all the stupid numbers and math fade from my brain. Don't even mention the CCNP DC stuff.
Heck, I might even do TSHOOT to re-cert... My son is working on his CCENT/CCNA, so it might be fun to study that alongside him.
Also working toward CISSP, but CCNP-Security re-cert has the July deadline...
Not sure if it's the same version but TSHOOT was by far the easiest of the NP when I did it.
I've taken a interest in security recently but not sure that CCNP-SEC will carry much weight in a technical security role other than somewhere that is purely Cisco. It seems to me that big companies look for strong skills across multi-vendor firewall platforms (Cisco / PA / Checkpoint) but also want SIEM and Pen Test / Vulnerability skills... I'm struggling to see where I'd learn that kind of stuff without raw experience.
Pen Test is a lot of coding. You'd need a dev/hacking background to be good. Its a very different specialisation from straight up security. Aside from multi-vendor firewall and IPS/NGFW, I'd take a look at identity and wireless provisioning (ISE/Clearpass and dot1x) as well as PKI.
Also never hurts to be good at IPSEC and DMVPN ;)
Quote from: wintermute000 on December 28, 2015, 04:05:14 PM
Pen Test is a lot of coding. You'd need a dev/hacking background to be good. Its a very different specialisation from straight up security. Aside from multi-vendor firewall and IPS/NGFW, I'd take a look at identity and wireless provisioning (ISE/Clearpass and dot1x) as well as PKI.
Also never hurts to be good at IPSEC and DMVPN ;)
Yeah, good points! I made a similar point to the Mrs before deliberating what to study next year (not that she was listening lol)... I have 3 exams for the CCNP-SEC to go, 2 of them being reasonably useful career wise (ISE and VPN), the other (IPS) not as useful as it's all been replaced by SourceFire.
I just get the feeling that to get into a decent role doing security you need to be a lot more than a one trick Cisco pony... Kind of makes you wonder whether it's worth doing. It's like the CCIE SEC's, you don't hear a lot about those folks, maybe that's because there aren't many or they are just secretive lol ;)
CCNP-Sec has some good basics, but, yeah, CCIE-Sec doesn't make much sense outside of consulting. Security typically involves using more than one vendor, but Cisco wants to be a wall-to-wall solution... I don't need other vendor certs in my current role, but I do like to have them because I'm into extra letters. I can use them as a shorthand notation for my experience with a product, which is what matters most.
Quote from: deanwebb on December 28, 2015, 05:16:31 PM
... because I'm into extra letters. I can use them as a shorthand notation for my experience with a product, which is what matters most.
deanwebb needs his Certified Internet Webmaster certifications (CIW) for running this place for over a year now.
Quote from: ristau5741 on December 29, 2015, 08:08:11 AM
Quote from: deanwebb on December 28, 2015, 05:16:31 PM
... because I'm into extra letters. I can use them as a shorthand notation for my experience with a product, which is what matters most.
deanwebb needs his Certified Internet Webmaster certifications (CIW) for running this place for over a year now.
That's what the MCP+Internet I earned back in 1996 is for. 8)
My CCNP textbooks are still for the previous versions. Planning to take the ROUTE to renew this year, but I'm wondering if it's worth getting the new text book or study the new topics separately? Think it's just DMVPN that was added and the rest is more or less the same?
Lucky you, there's a new official cert guide to consider... I think that's all that got added.
Currently studying for my CCNP Switch 300-115 exam in April. The resources I am using are Udemy-Chris Bryant and CBT nuggets- Jeremy Cioara. Both are video courses and I am learning a TON from them! I also bought Switch Lab videos on Udemy but havent started any of them. Any other resources you guys recommend?...to be honest Im not much of a reader LOL the old saying that pictures/videos are a worth a thousand words are very true in my case!
Both those resources ought to be really good, I've heard good things about them.
I used this app heavily when I was studying for it, but it hasn't been updated for the new exams:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.initialDraft.flashcardCCNP&hl=en
Plus also the FLG and OCG books, GNS3vault labs and anything else I could get my hands on.
Changing my decision on which test to use to re-cert my CCNP: going with SIMOS, since VPN stuff is still the same old VPN stuff and the firewall test also brings in the worst stuff of the old SECURE exam. Eugh. Just need to get supplemental materials on FlexVPN and I can re-use my old 642-648 VPN book for everything else.
I gotta throw down the hammer and buy the TSHOOT Cert Guide 300-135, I still got most of the year, but need to get reading.
I couldn't even build up a OSPF neighborship yesterday, then started troubleshooting and found the vlan SVI was SHUT on one device.
That got me so many times...
Quote from: ristau5741 on February 04, 2016, 11:21:18 AM
I gotta throw down the hammer and buy the TSHOOT Cert Guide 300-135, I still got most of the year, but need to get reading.
I couldn't even build up a OSPF neighborship yesterday, then started troubleshooting and found the vlan SVI was SHUT on one device.
That got me so many times...
Don't tell me you're one of those weirdos who likes forming OSPF adjacencies across trunks. :problem?:
Quote from: AspiringNetworker on February 04, 2016, 11:33:30 AM
Quote from: ristau5741 on February 04, 2016, 11:21:18 AM
I gotta throw down the hammer and buy the TSHOOT Cert Guide 300-135, I still got most of the year, but need to get reading.
I couldn't even build up a OSPF neighborship yesterday, then started troubleshooting and found the vlan SVI was SHUT on one device.
That got me so many times...
Don't tell me you're one of those weirdos who likes forming OSPF adjacencies across trunks. :problem?:
access port, it was in a pinch in the lab, working with IPSLA, wanted to see how the OSPF routing table changed on an adjacent router when the IPSLA set off.
Red Hat certification guide arrived. That's one heavy book.
Quote from: Reggle on February 05, 2016, 08:25:07 AM
Red Hat certification guide arrived. That's one heavy book.
Cool, if I was to do another cert. it'd be RH.
Quote from: ristau5741 on February 04, 2016, 11:21:18 AM
I gotta throw down the hammer and buy the TSHOOT Cert Guide 300-135,
Dropped the hammer yesterday, got it for less than $50US on Amazon.
Last time I did the TSHOOT, the book wasn't really relevant for the exam. It was mostly just troubleshooting what you learned in the other exams. There were some neat tricks in the book though :)
Quote from: ristau5741 on February 10, 2016, 07:35:38 AM
Quote from: ristau5741 on February 04, 2016, 11:21:18 AM
I gotta throw down the hammer and buy the TSHOOT Cert Guide 300-135,
Dropped the hammer yesterday, got it for less than $50US on Amazon.
Book neglected to come with CD, so it's going back, need to order a new one from somewhere else, since that one returned was last in stock.
Quote from: AspiringNetworker on February 04, 2016, 11:33:30 AM
Don't tell me you're one of those weirdos who likes forming OSPF adjacencies across trunks. :problem?:
I've seen that in wide use on a large campus. The network shop had a super high turn-over rate and what existed was the remnants of someone using the production network as a CCIE lab. I found all kinds of crazy stuff on that network.
Quote from: ristau5741 on February 04, 2016, 11:21:18 AM
I gotta throw down the hammer and buy the TSHOOT Cert Guide 300-135, I still got most of the year, but need to get reading.
Interesting book so far. read first 7 chapters, covers alot of theory very shallow, make one think it would be _very_ useful for a pre interview study session.
Lol, yeah. I'm still working on my VPN CCNP re-take for cert renewal and still reading for CISSP. Took a detour to read other stuff, but for CISSP, all reading is good reading, it seems.
completely lost any study momentum. CWNA (wireless Layer 1+2 theory) makes me want to slit my wrists. Firmly in the important-but-oh-so-boring category.
doesn't help that work has ramped up to mental levels, zero energy left by the time the kid goes to sleep.
Quote from: wintermute000 on March 07, 2016, 03:22:59 AM
completely lost any study momentum. CWNA (wireless Layer 1+2 theory) makes me want to slit my wrists. Firmly in the important-but-oh-so-boring category.
doesn't help that work has ramped up to mental levels, zero energy left by the time the kid goes to sleep.
LOL this is so me right now. The last thing I want to do with the little free time I have before I have to get up the next day and do it all over again, is study.... ugh.
No excuses, though. You know you want what's at the other end of that effort.
Quote from: deanwebb on March 07, 2016, 11:39:02 AM
No excuses, though. You know you want what's at the other end of that effort.
Yeah, I suppose I should keep my opinions to myself if they aren't relevant or drag down the thread. Sorry.
Quote from: AspiringNetworker on March 07, 2016, 12:31:13 PM
Quote from: deanwebb on March 07, 2016, 11:39:02 AM
No excuses, though. You know you want what's at the other end of that effort.
Yeah, I suppose I should keep my opinions to myself if they aren't relevant or drag down the thread. Sorry.
No, don't beat yourself up here, buddy. The best way to keep on a goal is to talk about it and to have others sharing your objective. Pull up yer bootstraps, mate! :)
Needing to get my CCNAW, trying to find info on the exam is not easy. I have the cisco book and watching StormWind Udemy videos but they are for the old exam...Really need to get my hands on WLC and Prime.
I need to get around to the VPN book... my procrastination's really bad: I'm writing a book on network security instead of studying...
Quote from: TeXJ on March 24, 2016, 04:01:10 PM
Needing to get my CCNAW, trying to find info on the exam is not easy. I have the cisco book and watching StormWind Udemy videos but they are for the old exam...Really need to get my hands on WLC and Prime.
Somebody on here keeps plugging theirs for sale, I can't remember who. Do a search if you want to buy one. I've got 4402 as well as a couple AP's I'd sell if interested. Other thing you could do is run the vWLC they've got out now. It's got a demo license but it'll work.
I'm supposed to be going through the CCNP Route material. Instead I'm dong house projects. Houses are flying off the market for higher than normal prices so we are thinking about the possibility.
Quote from: routerdork on March 25, 2016, 08:39:34 AM
I'm supposed to be going through the CCNP Route material. Instead I'm dong house projects. Houses are flying off the market for higher than normal prices so we are thinking about the possibility.
Markets may be close to the peak, so don't buy until after you've sold... and as for buying... well, you don't want to go underwater.
Quote from: deanwebb on March 25, 2016, 11:43:27 AM
Quote from: routerdork on March 25, 2016, 08:39:34 AM
I'm supposed to be going through the CCNP Route material. Instead I'm dong house projects. Houses are flying off the market for higher than normal prices so we are thinking about the possibility.
Markets may be close to the peak, so don't buy until after you've sold... and as for buying... well, you don't want to go underwater.
Neither of us are from here so we don't see it as our forever home. If we can offload the biggest thing keeping us here we could rent for a year or two and have that much less to deal with before we go.
Quote from: routerdork on March 25, 2016, 11:54:15 AM
Quote from: deanwebb on March 25, 2016, 11:43:27 AM
Quote from: routerdork on March 25, 2016, 08:39:34 AM
I'm supposed to be going through the CCNP Route material. Instead I'm dong house projects. Houses are flying off the market for higher than normal prices so we are thinking about the possibility.
Markets may be close to the peak, so don't buy until after you've sold... and as for buying... well, you don't want to go underwater.
Neither of us are from here so we don't see it as our forever home. If we can offload the biggest thing keeping us here we could rent for a year or two and have that much less to deal with before we go.
That sounds like the plan to run with.
Now we need to talk certs again... and I'm helping my son with his CCNA as an excuse to not study VPN stuff... Then again, I don't have to renew until July.
Well boys and girls, T minus 13 hours until I sit for the CCNP Switch exam. Hope I don't walk out of there with my tail between my legs!
Good luck flipmode!
I planned the RHCSA exam. Normally you can take it in Brussels which would be easy for me. However, 'due to a lack of participants' it's cancelled. Now I planned it next week friday in Stuttgart, Germany. Five hour drive. Booked a hotel as well.
That's depressing (the fact that there's no interest in RHCSA), I would have thought it would only grow in popularity, being the de-facto only 'trusted' linux cert out there. Overnight stays and long trips like that are BS for low-mid level exams.
I'm sure you'll nail it - go for gold!
Ccnp switch done! On to Route...with a detour to Linux essentials first.
Quote from: flipmode on April 02, 2016, 01:12:23 PM
Ccnp switch done! On to Route...with a detour to Linux essentials first.
Congrats!
Quote from: flipmode on April 02, 2016, 01:12:23 PM
Ccnp switch done! On to Route...with a detour to Linux essentials first.
:applause:
VCP6-VDC Boot camp this month. I put in for W2k12 PKI training last week, don't think I'll get in.
Quote from: Reggle on April 02, 2016, 01:31:14 AM
Good luck flipmode!
I planned the RHCSA exam. Normally you can take it in Brussels which would be easy for me. However, 'due to a lack of participants' it's cancelled. Now I planned it next week friday in Stuttgart, Germany. Five hour drive. Booked a hotel as well.
That five hour drive became a six hour drive, but it was worth it. Passed!
Quote from: Reggle on April 09, 2016, 04:28:59 AM
Quote from: Reggle on April 02, 2016, 01:31:14 AM
Good luck flipmode!
I planned the RHCSA exam. Normally you can take it in Brussels which would be easy for me. However, 'due to a lack of participants' it's cancelled. Now I planned it next week friday in Stuttgart, Germany. Five hour drive. Booked a hotel as well.
That five hour drive became a six hour drive, but it was worth it. Passed!
:applause:
Congratulations! :pub:
sudo --congrats!
I'm using Udemy Chris Bryant and Skillport for my CCNP Route exam and HOLY CRAP there is a ton of material. I allocated 3 months to study, lab and pass the exam but I think I'm going to push it to 4 or 5 months. It feels like I'm at the bottom of a mountain looking up right now LOL
First thing is first though, I'm taking the Linux Essentials LPI exam June 15 but will be studying concurrently for the Route exam.
OK, I gotta take that VPN test. I keep procrastinating, so I ask everyone here to pester me about taking it until I've actually reviewed the material, paid for it, showed up, and taken the dang thing. Peer pressure is awesome stuff, especially when it motivates me to take the test just to make everyone nagging me shut up. PMs, emails, LinkedIn emails, all that is great for getting me to quit avoiding and to get busy.
I thank you in advance. Don't do a DDOS via messages, but just the occasional ping here and there will be most appreciated.
Quote from: deanwebb on May 10, 2016, 06:51:29 AM
OK, I gotta take that VPN test. I keep procrastinating, so I ask everyone here to pester me about taking it until I've actually reviewed the material, paid for it, showed up, and taken the dang thing. Peer pressure is awesome stuff, especially when it motivates me to take the test just to make everyone nagging me shut up. PMs, emails, LinkedIn emails, all that is great for getting me to quit avoiding and to get busy.
I thank you in advance. Don't do a DDOS via messages, but just the occasional ping here and there will be most appreciated.
have you taken that test yet?
:matrix:
Quote from: ristau5741 on May 10, 2016, 07:30:15 AM
have you taken that test yet?
:matrix:
Not yet... I need to review what GDOI is/does... since I haven't touched it since taking the VPN exam...
Thanks for the nagging. I've reloaded my VPN test bank and have gone halfway through the first chapter. Please do keep nagging so that I don't celebrate with 8 hours of video games...
CWNA down. God i hate wireless :)
Quote from: wintermute000 on May 10, 2016, 04:54:28 PM
CWNA down. God i hate wireless :)
It's not so bad, once you get someone else to do it.
Quote from: wintermute000 on May 10, 2016, 04:54:28 PM
CWNA down. God i hate wireless :)
Coolio, mostly dry theory probably? Congrats!
Going through chapter 3 of the VPN book, all about certificates... it's amazing how all that was stuff I had to memorize 3 years ago. Now, it's all second nature to me. It's a good feeling to not just remember that's how it's done, but to remember how *I did it*!
Passed the JNCIS-ENT this morning with 83, IS-IS cost me most of the negative points.
:wha?:
Quote from: SimonV on May 17, 2016, 06:25:11 AM
Passed the JNCIS-ENT this morning with 83, IS-IS cost me most of the negative points.
:wha?:
All the same,
:applause:
And who uses IS-IS these days?
Quote from: deanwebb on May 17, 2016, 06:40:01 AM
Quote from: SimonV on May 17, 2016, 06:25:11 AM
Passed the JNCIS-ENT this morning with 83, IS-IS cost me most of the negative points.
All the same,
And who uses IS-IS these days?
Need to put together an RFC for renaming that protocol, these days IS-IS has bad connotations, and makes me think the network has been infiltrated by certain peoples.
Fabricpath, SPF, TRILL and lots of other things :)
Juniper also uses some parts of it for virtual chassis. Anyway, the JCNIS-ENT only touched on it briefly and it was all boring theory so not much of it sticked...
Next up, CCNP Route, before they start adding SDN :)
June is CCIE R/S time.
I'm initiating the plan to move to Bangkok for 4-5 solid months of lab practice.
Quote from: config t on May 23, 2016, 03:18:40 AM
June is CCIE R/S time.
I'm initiating the plan to move to Bangkok for 4-5 solid months of lab practice.
"What happens in Bangkok, stays in Bangkok."
"Not true. I fixed the layer 3 devices, so that multicast traffic is now routing out on the Internet."
:mrgreen:
Nuts.
Massive problem in India and now a ton of migration work means that I don't think I'll have enough time for study and test-taking before my CCNP expires.
Then again, I'm just retaking the VPN test, so it's not like I'd have an equivalent of a current CCNP-Security.
Therefore, I'm going to put the VPN book back on the shelf, let the NP expire, and concentrate back on my CISSP.
Quote from: deanwebb on June 10, 2016, 07:03:39 AM
Nuts.
Massive problem in India and now a ton of migration work means that I don't think I'll have enough time for study and test-taking before my CCNP expires.
Then again, I'm just retaking the VPN test, so it's not like I'd have an equivalent of a current CCNP-Security.
Therefore, I'm going to put the VPN book back on the shelf, let the NP expire, and concentrate back on my CISSP.
My old team lead had a famous quote perfect for this scenario.... You can get 3 days of work done in any 24 hour period....
Might be able to... thing is, I *am* doing 3 days of work in a 24-hour period. As the RADIUS engineer attached to this project, I'm up around the clock on supporting a global migration from one RADIUS platform to another. Loads of work right now, and after the work's done, I'm not in a good frame of mind to study... and I'm NOT going to go the route of a dumper, that's for sure!
Quote from: deanwebb on June 10, 2016, 07:56:10 AM
and I'm NOT going to go the route of a dumper, that's for sure!
never implied that.
I've been thinking about letting my CCNP drop too, after the next rotation, but I spent soo much time in getting one, I don't want to go through that again.
thankfully I'll have my BCNP forever.
No worries, I knew you didn't imply that. It's more for the benefit of anyone on the edge who's reading this. Do all the work honestly, and then you'll know you can do honest work.
What I like about CISSP is that it's maintained with learning/experiential credits. Yes, it's a pain to submit paperwork every year, but it's less of a pain than sitting for an exam for a product one doesn't even use. Honestly, the only Cisco security gear we use lots of is the ASA firewall, and then only for firewall functions.
IPS? Different vendor.
ACLs on the routers? Why make them do the firewall's job?
VPN? Different vendor.
NAC? Different vendor?
Sourcefire? If it was on the test, I would have taken the class for it already.
So, yeah... not a lot of pressure to get CCNP-Security renewed. So, onwards to the CISSP!
Question
If someone gets a VMware exam discount code to take up to 6 (six) online, unproctored VMware Certification exams at 70% off the normal price (via School). Is it worth doing?
The VMware VCA-NV costs around $35 with the discount code!
VMWare certs are very good to have, but they will also steer you towards the datacenter. Take them if you wish to go in that direction.
Thanks dean [emoji106]
It's time to start labbing again. What image are y'all using in GNS3 these days?
And where can I find it?
Quote from: SimonV on July 26, 2016, 01:21:09 PM
It's time to start labbing again. What image are y'all using in GNS3 these days?
And where can I find it?
using 7200 routers and 15.2(4)M7 for the routing part
using 3745 routers with 12.4(25d) with an NM-16ESW installed as a switch.
you can find the images on Cisco.com
Quote from: ristau5741 on July 26, 2016, 02:12:06 PM
you can find the images on Cisco.com
Fair enough, good thing we have a couple of those :)
Check the iol/iou thread by setit in the tutorials section
Gonna mark it now...
This will be the first year in 12 years that I have not been studying for and/or obtained a certification or degree.
Its been a new road but I get to play with what I want when I want.
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CCIE recert will be late next year so Im targeting in on the CCDE written or possibly the SP written. But Im realistic and assume Ill scramble like most and knock out the RS late next year...
I'm going ccde recert. It's 50% overlap and i am not reading that rs written stuff again LOL
yeah feels good to be automating without guilt huh! I'm spending all my lab time on ansible/veos and NSX
don't forget they now 'nicely' put you in inactive or something similar after 2 years, but you have 1 year to recert before they make you do the lab again. A colleague of mine just did that (i.e. re-certed after 2 years expired but before 3 years).
I am now 2-weeks into my CCIE RS studies. 2 more weeks of fundamentals and then it's lab practice for 8 solid weeks. No clue if I will be ready for the practical by then, but I will be a hell of a lot closer, anyway.
Planning to sit for the written in about 2 months.
Quote from: config t on July 29, 2016, 04:47:24 AM
I am now 2-weeks into my CCIE RS studies. 2 more weeks of fundamentals and then it's lab practice for 8 solid weeks. No clue if I will be ready for the practical by then, but I will be a hell of a lot closer, anyway.
Planning to sit for the written in about 2 months.
So... if your post count suddenly explodes, we should tell you to get back to labbing? :D
Just my view, but though lab is required to keep sane + practical understanding, for the written it won't help much. Just need to grind it out painfully and pointlessly . Oh how I despise the written
Quote from: deanwebb on July 29, 2016, 07:39:57 AM
So... if your post count suddenly explodes, we should tell you to get back to labbing? :D
:awesome:
It's not easy to stay focused in Bangkok.
Quote from: wintermute000 on July 29, 2016, 05:07:45 PM
Just my view, but though lab is required to keep sane + practical understanding, for the written it won't help much. Just need to grind it out painfully and pointlessly . Oh how I despise the written
Quite literally everyone I talk to who has taken the written exam tells me it is broken and pointless. Weak.
At least I can say preparing for the lab has been a joy so far. I'm learning a ton going through all of the topics and doing the single protocol labs in IOU. Definitely looking forward to the next two weeks and then the big multi-protocol lab.
Honestly, I got way more out of preparing for what I thought would be the CCDA exam than actually taking it... and, having taken it, I have no desire to re-take it. But, yes, the research and discovering new stuff is always great fun.
Quote from: config t on July 30, 2016, 05:33:32 AM
Quote from: deanwebb on July 29, 2016, 07:39:57 AM
So... if your post count suddenly explodes, we should tell you to get back to labbing? :D
:awesome:
It's not easy to stay focused in Bangkok.
Quote from: wintermute000 on July 29, 2016, 05:07:45 PM
Just my view, but though lab is required to keep sane + practical understanding, for the written it won't help much. Just need to grind it out painfully and pointlessly . Oh how I despise the written
Quite literally everyone I talk to who has taken the written exam tells me it is broken and pointless. Weak.
At least I can say preparing for the lab has been a joy so far. I'm learning a ton going through all of the topics and doing the single protocol labs in IOU. Definitely looking forward to the next two weeks and then the big multi-protocol lab.
There has been a lot of bashing the written exams lately, and that was voiced quite heavily on and around Live US a couple of weeks ago. It was discussed more than once on the CCIE luncheon with Chuck Robbins and his team including Jeanne Dunn, Joe Pinto and others. I you believe what they say, there will be changes coming.
If I work my ass off maybe two years down the road I can weigh in on the topic when I have to re-cert.
Right now my knowledge has more gaps than a back country road in Mexico.
DNS? wassat? The thing wot tells the puter machine how to Google?
Quote from: config t on July 31, 2016, 09:58:21 PM
If I work my ass off maybe two years down the road I can weigh in on the topic when I have to re-cert.
Right now my knowledge has more gaps than a back country road in Mexico.
DNS? wassat? The thing wot tells the puter machine how to Google?
I have driven on those back country roads in Mexico. Like a ditch between cornfields in places, like a shallow spot in a river in others. From now on, I don't care WHAT Google Maps says, I'm taking the cuota roads, no matter what.
As for DNS... I think I found info about her: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1081139/ Hope that helps you learn more about Dee Ennis although why a third-string actress would be on the CCIE Written is beyond me...
I see what you did there..
get used to typing add ipv4 / add ipv6 unicast / add XYZ as soon as you enter the BGP process like its second nature. You'll be doing this A LOT.
get used to what is in the 'native' section and what is in the address families
get used to separating in your mind the peering from the address family (mind blowing fact: you can say route ipv6 address families over a ipv4 peering or vice versa as long as the underlay has the right addressing and the BGP paths have the correct next-hops. You WILL run into this crap, though I would never design this explicitly.)
get used to typing show ip bgp vpnv4 vrf XYZ and show ip bgp all for the quick scan.
get used to specifying unicast after ipv6 (e.g. address families, show ip bgp ipv6 unicast), and oh, turn the damned feature on, yes and multicast separately
address families is love, address families is life. (no seriously, all the fun extensions are on MP-BGP - EVPN for example)
As for the written, I saw that blog post but I'll believe it when I see it. They've had YEARS to fix the goddamned thing. I'm still smarting from the 300USD I forked out to fail the v4 written by a whisker and I know for a fact I stuffed up the 3 obscure EEM syntax questions I got (as well as that stupid what is the hex value in the Y field of an IGMP report type Z).
One of my colleagues is two years away from being able to apply for Emeritus, and he's jumping on that as soon as he can LOL (and I know two other emerituses)
EIGRP Named Mode and OSPFv3 support multi-protocol routing also, so one can run IPv4 and IPv6 protocols in the same routing instance via address families.
https://networklessons.com/eigrp/eigrp-named-mode-configuration/
https://networklessons.com/ospf/ospfv3-for-ipv4-configuration/
8)
learned this in my TSHOOT Studies, which a should be taking probably next month
Quote from: ristau5741 on August 03, 2016, 07:31:47 AM
EIGRP Named Mode and OSPFv3 support multi-protocol routing also, so one can run IPv4 and IPv6 protocols in the same routing instance via address families.
https://networklessons.com/eigrp/eigrp-named-mode-configuration/
https://networklessons.com/ospf/ospfv3-for-ipv4-configuration/
8)
learned this in my TSHOOT Studies, which a should be taking probably next month
Yup, yup. MP-BGP can also do IPv6 over v4 peers and Ipv4 over v6 peers. Each of them have a few quirks when ran this way but yeah completely supported.
Quote from: that1guy15 on August 03, 2016, 07:58:58 AM
Quote from: ristau5741 on August 03, 2016, 07:31:47 AM
EIGRP Named Mode and OSPFv3 support multi-protocol routing also, so one can run IPv4 and IPv6 protocols in the same routing instance via address families.
https://networklessons.com/eigrp/eigrp-named-mode-configuration/
https://networklessons.com/ospf/ospfv3-for-ipv4-configuration/
8)
learned this in my TSHOOT Studies, which a should be taking probably next month
Yup, yup. MP-BGP can also do IPv6 over v4 peers and Ipv4 over v6 peers. Each of them have a few quirks when ran this way but yeah completely supported.
the versatility, the versatility.... I also got a IPV6 GRE Tunnel running over IPv4 in lab.
Oh man the memories. You are making me flash back to so early early morning labs that I wish not to remember anymore :)
I'm already feeling a little bit of burn out but I'm still motivated. DMVPN today.. so much to learn and so little time.
Wow really? I never knew that was possible. I have OSPF for IPv4 running throughout my org. And I have enabled IPv6 and was thinking I need to create an additional OSPF instance (OSPF v3) for IPv6 routing. If I can do it all (IPv4 and IPv6 routing updates) with OSPFv3 then this is great!
I had to change my VRF lite config to support IPv6 as well, which I thought was weird:
vrf definition NAMEHEREBUTDONTMAKETHISNAMETOOLONG-VRF-2
rd 192.168.255.9:2
!
address-family ipv4
exit-address-family
!
address-family ipv6
exit-address-family
!
Quote from: config t on August 03, 2016, 10:27:12 PM
I'm already feeling a little bit of burn out but I'm still motivated. DMVPN today.. so much to learn and so little time.
I got a great peace of advice during my INE bootcamp right before I went full on finale-prep mode.
I asked the instructor how he handled burn-out and what the best strategy was. His answer was to just ignore it. Its gonna happen and with such a long journey it will happen more and more and more. Its all mental and just stop thinking about it and keep grinding away at the keyboard. This of course was for the last few miles.
This threw me at first but made total sense in the next couple months. Needless to say I was full on burnt out from Jan 15 through Sept 15 when I passed and pretty much the rest of the year.
The key is a solid schedule and routine. Hold yourself accountable to both of these. Build in break time and days off so you dont kill yourself and then just grind until you see your digits.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN IS YOUR FAVORITE PERSON AND YOU WANT AS MANY PICTURES OF HIM NEXT TO THE NUMBER 100 AS POSSIBLE!
^ Motivation to keep studying.
Quote from: deanwebb on August 04, 2016, 12:01:43 PM
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN IS YOUR FAVORITE PERSON AND YOU WANT AS MANY PICTURES OF HIM NEXT TO THE NUMBER 100 AS POSSIBLE!
^ Motivation to keep studying.
Conversely, it's not about the money, it's about what makes you happy and gives you that feeling of self satisfaction.
of course being happy and self satisfied while driving around in a Porsche, makes it all that much better.
Quote from: ristau5741 on August 04, 2016, 01:46:59 PM
Quote from: deanwebb on August 04, 2016, 12:01:43 PM
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN IS YOUR FAVORITE PERSON AND YOU WANT AS MANY PICTURES OF HIM NEXT TO THE NUMBER 100 AS POSSIBLE!
^ Motivation to keep studying.
Conversely, it's not about the money, it's about what makes you happy and gives you that feeling of self satisfaction.
of course being happy and self satisfied while driving around in a Porsche, makes it all that much better.
Yeah, but goin' for the benjamins is gangsta.
And, damn, it feels good to be a gangsta.
:gangsta:
I can't imagine tackling all that from scratch and in a matter of months. Fortunately or unfortunately, I went in with real life scars from MP-BGP/MPLS-VPN and DMVPN as well as having gone through all the NBMA scenarios (v4 labs) repeatedly.
The syllabus just sped up my typing and made me memorise all the obscure stuff which of course I have now completely forgotten....
that1guy is spot on, you just need to grit your teeth and push through, there is really no other way. Its kinda like over-pressure - you HAVE to overload yourself (all that stuff to memorise... every scenario, every nerd knob) and the moment you stop trying to keep stuffing it in, you start leaking memories. So really, at the end when its all coming together, its a sprint, NOT a marathon. The marathon is the foundations but the 3 months of non-stop full scale labs (and then cramming notes each scenario you are not flying through on autopilot) is the sprint.
I don't know if benjamins is enough motivation to get someone through the effort. I mean, its not that many benjamins in the greater scheme of things - if you're good at investment/stock picking or worked in sales you could make many times the bump in salary. And at the really high salaries its not about engineering chops anyway, perhaps it is in Silicon valley / hyperscale, but not in most normal workplaces (which is sad but hey such is life).
Totally agree with that1guy and wintermute.. I'm going to have to force my mind into beast-mode if I want to pull this off by Christmas. I haven't made a schedule and have just kind of been going with the flow. Tip of the hat to those of you who did this with families and full-time jobs. You guys are warriors. I'm very fortunate to be in a position where I can tackle this early in my career with no distractions. No doubt.
I won't say it's not about money (because mm.. benjamins). Mostly it's about creating opportunities and becoming a better network professional. After going through some crappy jobs and projects just to build a base of experience and break into the industry it's sort of a capstone to all of those struggles.
More time in the trenches will definitely be needed. I don't expect to be handed a 150k job because I passed a really hard exam, but I will be well-armed and that much closer.
Oh and it will probably be a Jaguar F-Type.. not a Porsche :pub:
Just submitted my CFP for RSA. It's about Game Theory and Information Security. Hope it gets selected. If not, meh. Can always submit for next year.
VCIX-NV booked for 26/9.
Its irritating as I feel 90% ready, but there is only 1 exam centre offering it in my town and I've had a co-worker bomb out already as his RDP session was unusable (its a 4 hour lab exam, not this pansy multiple choice stuff LOL). It was so bad, Vmware gave him a free re-sit.
Fortunately for me I have a project in another town coming up in a month and they've nicely agreed for me to fly up a day early to sort this out in a test centre that hopefully wont' have unusably slow internet (or private network or however Pearson connects back to Vmware labs).
Unfortunately for me, I have to wait a bloody month!
Wasn't on my goal list but my previous employer had me scheduled to go to LogRhythm training a couple months ago. So I took the test a few weeks back and I'm a LogRhythm Certified Professional now :wall:
I'm reading almost everything on security except my CISSP official cert guide. Today is the day I open that book again and start reading it... right after I finish posting here.
CCIE RS, passed yesterday in Brussels :pub:
Quote from: srg on August 30, 2016, 08:10:51 AM
CCIE RS, passed yesterday in Brussels :pub:
CONGRATS!!!!! That's awesome! :pub:
How long did you study for it?
Quote from: srg on August 30, 2016, 08:10:51 AM
CCIE RS, passed yesterday in Brussels :pub:
:applause:
Excellent work, mate!
Quote from: srg on August 30, 2016, 08:10:51 AM
CCIE RS, passed yesterday in Brussels :pub:
Congrats[emoji1373]
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Quote from: EOS on August 30, 2016, 08:13:40 AM
Quote from: srg on August 30, 2016, 08:10:51 AM
CCIE RS, passed yesterday in Brussels :pub:
CONGRATS!!!!! That's awesome! :pub:
How long did you study for it?
A little over a year from passing the written, but as always it's been in waves with lots of work and other stuff.
A big congratulations! You are now in the exalted 0.75%.
(3% of Cisco certified people are CCIEs, and only 1/4 of CCIEs go on to get a second).
Quote from: deanwebb on August 23, 2016, 03:33:56 PM
I'm reading almost everything on security except my CISSP official cert guide. Today is the day I open that book again and start reading it... right after I finish posting here.
You get that CISSP and it looks like you may be sufficiently qualified for DoD work. Looks like the CISSP qualifies you for
Information Assurance Technical (IAT) Level-III and
Information Assurance Manager (IAM) Level-III Cybersecurity Workforce (CSWF) Certification
(I has to do research on this yesterday, job I was sending in my resume for required the IAT and IAM certs).
Looks like I am on my way to CISSP as soon as I get this stupid TSHOOT under my belt..
I always enjoy bonus certifications.
Quote from: srg on August 30, 2016, 08:10:51 AM
CCIE RS, passed yesterday in Brussels :pub:
WOOT! congrats dude!!! Well done.
Got the dreaded email this morning. Looks like its time to ramp up my CCDE written studies.
March or die convert to emeritus status.
Quote from: deanwebb on September 02, 2016, 09:18:18 AM
March or die convert to emeritus status.
Emeritus is only available after 10 years. Im at year 1 :)
Well, in one more year, you'll be at 10. In binary.
Quote from: that1guy15 on September 02, 2016, 08:48:12 AM
Got the dreaded email this morning. Looks like its time to ramp up my CCDE written studies.
I'm reading dat OCG right now. Its good stuff and you'll enjoy it, esp. as a veteran you will already know most of it intuitively (but its good to read it clearly stated in one place with the official big C stamp of approval), well, at least the Enterprise stuff anyway. I haven't gotten to the SP side yet (and yeh will need to bone up on ISIS... the stuff I did to bum rush the written and the JNCIS-SP is probably not enough), I'm sure I need to go back and read a few more MPLS books esp. re: L2VPN and MPLS-TE (i.e. all the stuff we didn't do in RS syllabus).
I can see how someone who studied hard but hasn't got a lot of real life XP would gain a ton of value out of it but 70% of it is just 'common sense' for an experienced set of eyes (e.g. summarisation good, but watch out for black holing esp. in failover scenarios - duh. Bad placement of OSPF areas may lead to suboptimal routing -ORLY? Link state protocols are bad in hub/spoke due to flooding and spam LSA data to spokes - you don't say.... etc.). It IS very useful to recap and train to be able to articulate clearly and in one place. And the 30% yoh ain't seen before may of course prove very useful down the track
My main gripe ATM is that there's some stuff I don't actually agree with LOL - its all shades of grey in real life as you know. WTF is with the obsession with the good old loop free inverted U access topology, its the best except you can't span L2 between switches - guess that 100% of my field XP and customers I have seen have a requirement for....
/rant on
I also have a SERIOUS bone to pick with them re: the 'stack/VSS good, traditional pair bad' mantra. Its like they've never been in a comms room at 2AM trying to rescue a VSS meltdown or a stack meltdown or a Nexus 7k ISSU gone bad before.... five words: SHARED CONTROL PLANE YOU MOTHERF-CKERS). If HA is a requirement, give me good old HSRP/VRRP + RPVST+ and OSPF/EIGRP (heck, tune the timers if you want) any day. I can take either core out of action (for any reason... upgrade... HW fault.... fun...) in a second flat, bring it back, works every time. Guaranteed 1 second outage every time is better in my book than its magic pixie dust seamless most of the time, except that one time.... and oh if you hit a software bug, it bits both your behinds at the same time, woohoo. Having said all that, again IRL it depends LOL
don't get me started on the 'tune STP timers' recommendation, WTF are you serious... and I quote:
Quote" All the Layer 2 design models in Figure 2-4 share common limitations:
The reliance on STP to avoid loss of connectivity caused by Layer 2 loops and the
dependency on Layer 3 FHRP timers, such as VRRP to converge. These dependences
naturally lead to an increased convergence time when a node or link fails. Therefore, as
a rule of thumb, tuning and aligning STP and FHRP timers is a recommended practice to
overcome these limitations to some extent. "
/rant off
A revision to my rant above re: the CCDE OCG: The Service Provider stuff is a lot more interesting (to me anyway), though I have no idea if an experienced SP guy would roll their eyes.
However, downside is that it is definitely very high level to the point where if you had no understanding of the technology you would be completely lost and none of it would make any sense.
e.g. In around 30 pages they blitz through the entire L2VPN stack - AToM/E-Line, ELAN, VPLS (LDP vs BGP signalled), H-VPLS, PBB-VPLS, PBB-H-VPLS, EVPN, PBB-EVPN. I suppose that's not the point of the book (i.e. there is a strong presumption of knowledge) but there is somewhat of an 'uncomfortable middle ground' where its presuming fairly in-depth knowledge but at the same time staying high level which is kind of contradictory in my view.
Looks like I'm going to a ForeScout CounterACT FCSA class in October. And it looks like I'll pick up another 4 letters from that. :)
Quote from: wintermute000 on September 07, 2016, 12:21:52 AM
A revision to my rant above re: the CCDE OCG: The Service Provider stuff is a lot more interesting (to me anyway), though I have no idea if an experienced SP guy would roll their eyes.
However, downside is that it is definitely very high level to the point where if you had no understanding of the technology you would be completely lost and none of it would make any sense.
e.g. In around 30 pages they blitz through the entire L2VPN stack - AToM/E-Line, ELAN, VPLS (LDP vs BGP signalled), H-VPLS, PBB-VPLS, PBB-H-VPLS, EVPN, PBB-EVPN. I suppose that's not the point of the book (i.e. there is a strong presumption of knowledge) but there is somewhat of an 'uncomfortable middle ground' where its presuming fairly in-depth knowledge but at the same time staying high level which is kind of contradictory in my view.
Havent touched the CCDE OCG but I had this exact feeling with the CCDP ARCH OCG and cert.
yeah I hear ya.
If I wasn't a super geek who read up on MPLS outside of what my job required (or even what the RS syllabus required) I would be a bit at sea with the SP architecture stuff, but I understand it perfectly at a high level, even if I have no clue re: the syntax or any actual hands on XP or real life considerations. Having done a JNCIS-SP helped as well esp basic ISIS and Metro-E knowledge
You'll kill the enterprise section for sure thou
TSHOOT Booked 9/30/16
Just got the IXIA BreakingPoint Systems Specialist Certification. Actually really cool gear that I wish I had years ago.
-Otanx
Quote from: Otanx on September 21, 2016, 12:48:17 PM
Just got the IXIA BreakingPoint Systems Specialist Certification. Actually really cool gear that I wish I had years ago.
-Otanx
:applause:
VCXN610 passed!!!!!!
I have seriously no idea how that happened. I walked out thinking I failed, and ended up with 382/500 (300 is the passing score... haha vmware is so loose).
Its an absolutely brutal exam with the slowest, most crash prone environment in the world, complete with questions so vague it makes the CCIE lab exam look like webster's dictionary. Burnyd will know the score. Its also even more time pressure than the CCIE due to the super slow GUI
I swear 2 out of the 18 questions I didn't even end up doing as they literally bugged out on me (e.g. I had a distributed logical router to fix, the GUI literally wouldn't let me edit the interfaces, the mouse icon was swapping between arrow and edit hundreds of times a second. So I deleted it and redeployed it, and NSX just kept tearing it down unable to establish a control plane, WTF).
Whatever marking script they use is insane as I had the result within 30 minutes of walking out. I wonder how much the marking script got wrong, coz I am still amazed at how I got that score
Next target: CCDE written (for recert lulz). Still undecided whether I want to follow through - the heavy carrier content is interesting but irrelevant to my job and large swathes of it is being rapidly obsoleted by SD-(insert buzzword). I have a feeling the current syllabus will go EOL in the next 12 months.
Quote from: wintermute000 on September 28, 2016, 02:04:30 AM
VCXN610 passed!!!!!!
I have seriously no idea how that happened. I walked out thinking I failed, and ended up with 382/500 (300 is the passing score... haha vmware is so loose).
Its an absolutely brutal exam with the slowest, most crash prone environment in the world, complete with questions so vague it makes the CCIE lab exam look like webster's dictionary. Burnyd will know the score. Its also even more time pressure than the CCIE due to the super slow GUI
I swear 2 out of the 18 questions I didn't even end up doing as they literally bugged out on me (e.g. I had a distributed logical router to fix, the GUI literally wouldn't let me edit the interfaces, the mouse icon was swapping between arrow and edit hundreds of times a second. So I deleted it and redeployed it, and NSX just kept tearing it down unable to establish a control plane, WTF).
Whatever marking script they use is insane as I had the result within 30 minutes of walking out. I wonder how much the marking script got wrong, coz I am still amazed at how I got that score
Next target: CCDE written (for recert lulz). Still undecided whether I want to follow through - the heavy carrier content is interesting but irrelevant to my job and large swathes of it is being rapidly obsoleted by SD-(insert buzzword). I have a feeling the current syllabus will go EOL in the next 12 months.
Congrats! Haha yah that test was bs it was so slow. I took that test when it first came out and the test actually failed twice on me ie the test engine broke lol. So I took it all in all 3x.
Go for the DE written or sounds like you are doing SP stuff... if you have the XR experience just go for SP.
nah I'm not doing SP stuff (although I AM reading a fantastic book right now - MPLS in the SDN era - by God its amazing) that's the problem, and I'll probably never touch IOS-XR outside of a lab, so its hard to get real life XP or mileage out of the SP track, even though at an intellectual level I really like MPLS (segment routing / PCEP / BGP-LS is mind blowing).
Its the same conundrum with going deeper in to the server side e.g. VCAP6-DCV Design + Deploy or RHCSA --> RHCE, though those two are probably more directly applicable in my line of work. Its just irritating as I'm starting to get stretched real thin and I'm not sure if I'll retain anything I don't get to drive in production (which is already happening with some certs I did a year or two ago...)
If this was 2012 I'd probably unhesitatingly go deeper into the Vmware hosting side of things but in the current landscape its so hard to pick a horse isn't it!
Quote from: ristau5741 on September 08, 2016, 03:31:49 PM
TSHOOT Booked 9/30/16
goood for another 3 years :joy:
15% inconsistent
25% easy
75% hard which includes the 15% inconsistencies
stupid crap like "show ip protocols" shows no protocol redistribution
"show run" in the routing protocols section, under the routing protocol "redistribute....."
other odds and ends that didn't add up right.
wasn't as I expected from reviewing the TSHOOT exam demo.
oh, and I think I clicked through one of the trouble tickets, exam was running slow, and took a few seconds to load trouble tickets.
I think I clicked next before the ticket loaded, thinking it would reload, but it didn't.
pass is a pass.
:applause:
And yes, passing score is passing.
It's disappointing when the review doesn't point towards the test. That's the whole point of the review... sheesh... I get to do my ForeScout Certified Associate in two weeks after I do the class.
Then I add it to my LinkedIn profile and kick off another wave of recruiter InMails... :mrgreen:
yeah, now that i got that load off my shoulders, planning to update my linked in profile this weekend, start looking for that next project.
Did you put that CISSP on the back burner? I'm thinking of going that route next. or maybe doing some python learning.
Congrats, Ristau! I sent you a PM earlier about the TSHOOT, think I'll go that route to renew my NP instead of doing ROUTE all over :whistle:
Quote from: ristau5741 on September 30, 2016, 12:25:10 PM
yeah, now that i got that load off my shoulders, planning to update my linked in profile this weekend, start looking for that next project.
Did you put that CISSP on the back burner? I'm thinking of going that route next. or maybe doing some python learning.
More like on the piano bench by my home office chair, but... yeeeeeeaaaaaahhh... I blame the insanity with RADIUS I had to go through in May/June. On the other hand, I presented at BSidesLV, so I count that as a feather in my cap and a career goal attained. :)
Quote from: SimonV on September 30, 2016, 04:11:04 PM
Congrats, Ristau! I sent you a PM earlier about the TSHOOT, think I'll go that route to renew my NP instead of doing ROUTE all over :whistle:
good route to go, probably the easiest Cisco test.
Bought the hardware for TSHOOT topology, then decided it would be too much physical hassle and built it in GNS3. Switching still buggy as hell but other than that I have the full topology working. I'll spend a few more days familiarizing myself and then go for it.
I keep thinking 2017 is the year of the CISSP for me...
Quote from: SimonV on November 17, 2016, 03:17:51 AM
Bought the hardware for TSHOOT topology, then decided it would be too much physical hassle and built it in GNS3. Switching still buggy as hell but other than that I have the full topology working. I'll spend a few more days familiarizing myself and then go for it.
for me it was the other way around, GNS3 kept crashing or loosing configs, etc, frustrating, I used physical lab gear.
I'm running the images on a dedicated GNS3 VM with 12 gigs of RAM on my ESXi . I don't have serial interfaces on my 1841s so GSN3 was easier to get the frame-relay going. I could probably bridge out to physical 3560s and make it a hybrid solution. Lost 30 minutes because of a faulty mac-address-table last night.
I didn't even worry about the frame relay. I just did serial links between the routers. worked out just fine.
Passed TSHOOT this morning, was fun :wub:
:rock:
Congrats! I agree, it is a "fun" exam.
Congratulations SimonV!