Here's my take on the lab and preparations... For preparations, I had both of the IP Expert workbooks. I attended the FastLane bootcamp with Jerome Henry. I also had the FastLane workbook. I had my own personal lab with plenty of controllers, APs, and all of the required servers running in VM Ware.
The FastLane bootcamp was hugely helpful. Though if Jerome left FastLane, I don't know how it would be with a different instructor. But I would highly recommend the FastLane workbook. It's a technology focused workbook with a single full scale lab. The quality is pretty good and it will cover much of what you will find in the lab. The IP Expert material was OK. But there were many disappointing aspects to it. For instance, in workbook 1, there are ACS configs showing version 4.x. In workbook 2, whoever wrote the lab solution guides is very WCS focused in terms of pushing configs to WLCs using templates. Not that it's a bad thing to do that. But there were tasks where you could configure them in a WCS template, but they do not apply to 7.0.116.0 code. Or WCS references things wrong, but that's also how the task references configs. Ultimately, I would say that if you want to buy only a single workbook, buy FastLane's. If you want a multi-vendor study strategy (which I like), make FastLane your primary study material. Do all of the labs in it multiple times. Then just read through the IP Expert workbooks to help reinforce things. They do have a few scenarios that FastLane's doesn't have, and they are helpful. Now, onto the lab itself. Overall, I think the lab is pretty fair in what it expects from you. I ended up having plenty of time left over after the configurations to go through and re-verify and test all tasks a second time. It is a typical CCIE exam, in that it's important to read everything to fully understand what is being asked of. Tasks in one part of the lab will affect tasks in other parts of the lab. Also, you'll get tasks that aren't obvious as the exactly what they want you to do and you have to hope that the proctor is in a helpful mood. Mostly I was on my own to interpret the questions. You will need to be good at troubleshooting. There is no explicit troubleshooting section like in the R&S lab. But troubleshooting is built into the lab tasks themselves. So what starts off as a simple task can suck up your time pretty quick if you aren't on the ball. Many of the lab tasks are pretty straight forward in what you are asked to be configured. You'll know what they are asking you for and you just do what is asked. But there are also tasks that make you need to pull from your knowledge of wireless requirements to figure out the solution based on restrictions. It is also very good to know more than 1 way to get the same result. I didn't really look to find the absolute fastest way to do things. There honesty aren't enough controllers where leveraging WCS templates is going to make a significant difference. I just had all of the controllers up in both CLI and web GUI. I did most everything in the GUI. For anything that had to be configured across multiple controllers, I just did the same config one page at a time across each controller. CLI was used for CLI-only configs as well as for doing config saves (faster than doing it in the GUI). On the autonomous APs, you should be able to configure most things via CLI only. About the only things I would use the GUI for would be RADIUS server configs and QoS/voice stuff. Interfaces, VLANs, WLANs, and radios should be all configured easily via CLI. If you get good at autonomous, this section should be easy points without spending much time. Here was my order of operations. 1- configure wired network for everything but QoS. You should have working layer 2/3 connectivity. This is required to get LAPs to join controllers. 2- get services needed for LAPs to join WLCs configured. Ensure all devices are using NTP and configure DHCP/DNS/UDP forwarding as needed for AP joins. 3- join all LAPs to WLCs as directed 4- put LAPs into appropriate modes (HREAP, OE, etc) and/or AP groups (get through AP reboots) 5- configure SNMP on WLCs as directed and join controllers to WCS 6- join MSE to WCS if not already done for you 7- do any configs that would require a controller reboot This will set you up so that the unified wireless is ready for configs and you have the option to use WCS as needed. You also do not want to have to be rebooting controllers later in the afternoon due to RRM behavior. At this point, I circled back and finished off the wired configs, autonomous AP configs, and WCS configs. That got me to lunch time (about 3 hours into the lab). Then I did all of the unified access (including the voice/video section) configs after lunch. One last tip, be sure to save often. Like after every task you configure. On my first lab attempt, we lost power to our racks. One or two people lost over an hour of configs because they hadn't saved anything at all. Hopefully this is helpful for people. Good luck to everyone out there. Jeff Rensink On Mon, Jan 7, 2013 at 12:51 PM, Andreas di Zazzo < [email protected]> wrote: > Do not have that much to share I’m afraid.**** > > I used Fastlane’s workbooks, went over them twice and then attended the > Fastlane bootcamp with Jerome (highly recommended however Jerome just left > Fastlane so I don’t know what will happened to this bootcamp in the future). > **** > > Since there are no rentable rack available to match the IPexpert workbook > 2 labs I simply skipped them and did not really do any full-scale labs.*** > * > > ** ** > > A hint to get an easier time on the lab is to be strong on the wired > sections. You should have decent knowledge of routing, switching, and > master topics such as HSRP/VRRP, VTP, wired catalyst QoS, IOS MQC QoS, > wired multicast.**** > > **** > > Best regards**** > > Andreas di Zazzo – CCIE #28735 (Routing & Switching, Wireless)**** > > ** ** > > *From:* [email protected] [mailto: > [email protected]] *On Behalf Of *tunde ogunbiyi > *Sent:* den 7 januari 2013 18:42 > *To:* [email protected] > *Subject:* Re: [OSL | CCIE_Wireless] CCIE_Wireless Digest, Vol 45, Issue 6 > **** > > ** ** > > Congrats to Jeff and Andreas, guys please share with us the strategies and > materials with which you used to pass this exam. > > Regards, **** > > *Tunde Olawale Ogunbiyi***** > > *+2348057066938, +2347030665979***** > > **** > > ** ** > ------------------------------ > > *From:* "[email protected]" < > [email protected]> > *To:* [email protected] > *Sent:* Monday, January 7, 2013 6:00 PM > *Subject:* CCIE_Wireless Digest, Vol 45, Issue 6**** > > > Send CCIE_Wireless mailing list submissions to > [email protected] > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > http://onlinestudylist.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ccie_wireless > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > [email protected] > > You can reach the person managing the list at > [email protected] > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of CCIE_Wireless digest..." > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. Re: First wireless CCIE of the year (Jeff Rensink) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Mon, 7 Jan 2013 09:17:05 -0600 > From: Jeff Rensink <[email protected]> > To: Andreas di Zazzo <[email protected]> > Cc: "[email protected]" > <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [OSL | CCIE_Wireless] First wireless CCIE of the year > Message-ID: > <CAG4_piXVKgb4xDvMdBJVHtY-otaNERXhq7PXhN0bKHJZ=1y...@mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" > > Nicely done! What a great start to 2013 for wireless IEs. > > Jeff Rensink > > > On Mon, Jan 7, 2013 at 4:11 AM, Andreas di Zazzo < > [email protected] > > wrote: > > > > > This was a good day, took my lab this very same day in Brussels and > passed > > also. Just got the results so doing the happy dance. > > > > First attempt :-) > > > > Big thank you to all people in this mailinglist, you were a great help. > > > > > > > > > > Sent from Samsung mobile > > > > Jeff Rensink <[email protected]> wrote: > > Took the lab in SJ yesterday and just got the results. Passed (on my > > second attempt). Woot! > > > > Jeff Rensink > > > > _______________________________________________ > > For more information regarding industry leading CCIE Lab training, please > > visit www.ipexpert.com > > > > Are you a CCNP or CCIE and looking for a job? 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