Well I passed the exam, ccnp recert today, it was close, man what a pain. I only studied a week and a half and mostly labbed my work. Considering I have not touched a cisco router or done much cisco work since my first ccie lab attempt last september(I was burnt out of cisco and sick of it) I guess the experience carried me on this on.
This exam is a pain, the new format is cool for you have to type in configs et al. So know your command output across the board. However there was some old stuff like win95 setup for dial up and an appletalk plus a couple of x25 questions. I put in the comments that this stuff was outdated, not relelvant and appletalk was not on any of the exam topic lists. Also, you cannot mark your questions and go back later. It is all or nothing. I had 15 minutes to spare and I could not go back, so I was graded immediatly. The examples and diagrams(used for the config simulations) have text that is sooooo small you can barley read it. Since all of my cisco exams for np/dp were v1 and back in 2000 if this is a hint of the future, the ccnp/dp will become more difficult to obtain. Much more emphasis on hands on and knowing your command output cold across the board. My test did have the mls, multicasting(ip and mac stuff) and some ISIS, so know your multicast mac addresses plus some older fr, isdn ipx, queuing subnetting stuff. The questions are tougher and more esoteric in terms of understanding them. One question was obviously an error, same answer in two choices. Lots of switching spanning-tree(theory/practical) vtp routers with isl et al. Bgp sync, hands on ospf configuration, policy routing, hands on frame relay config. So know your switchig/routing commands cold and hands on. It was just funcky old stuff but with more command output detailed asked and newer stuff with funky command output details asked. I recall it was 112 questions with 2 hours to complete I did not violate any nda just cofirming that what was in the exam objectives for all tests were in this test, even the appletalk question. I used all my ccie books and some of my older np/dp books. I used this opportunity to brush up my cisco skills but I alos spent extra time reading doyle I II for all IGP and BGP. I did not use any brain dumps or practice tests. Do not use them. Learn from experience, hands on practicing, reading and labbing. You will appreciate you skills and cert a little more, and be more confident in your real abilities. I used www.amilabs.com for all of my work. Oh well now on to recertify on the DP. I will probably sit that one on Thurs. From there I will make a decision if I should spend the next three months on my second ccie attempt. I have a lab slot schedlued in sept otherwise I will lose my written eligibility. I may pass for I have an opportunity to work on some WDM, obtain my CWNA and maybe CISSP with in the same period. I hoped this helped someone. Good luck to all.... Regards... Message Posted at: http://www.groupstudy.com/form/read.php?f=7&i=69633&t=69556 -------------------------------------------------- FAQ, list archives, and subscription info: http://www.groupstudy.com/list/cisco.html Report misconduct and Nondisclosure violations to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
