Comments for CCIE Trek

Comment on Everything you ever wanted to know about VTP Transparent switch operation by jrensink78

jrensink78 — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 21:52:16 +0000

When you switch from Server mode to Transparent, all of your VLANs stick around. So you won’t lose your VLAN configs when you make the switch. If you can, I would change all switches to Transparent as opposed to running a mix of Transparent and Server.

You can do this on a live network and it shouldn’t cause any loss of packets. But I would make the change during off hours if possible. When dealing with VTP, simple mistakes can travel fast.

Comment on Starting on the Service Provider track by Sohail Akhtar

Sohail Akhtar — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 17:27:11 +0000

best of luck for ur exam

Comment on Study Plan by jrensink78

jrensink78 — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 20:27:12 +0000

I guess getting a comment about updating my plan was a good motivator to actually follow through. Hopefully we can both get the SP track under our belts within the next year.

Comment on Study Plan by Wookiee

Wookiee — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 06:26:53 +0000

I’m so interested my friend ,
Willing to set it also as a GOAL by end of 2010 .

Thanks for updating the PLAN soon as we can synch our efforts .

Comment on SP study materials have arrived! by jrensink78

jrensink78 — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 01:46:40 +0000

I don’t know if there would be more books that I would add to the list. These don’t cover every topic in the blueprint. But it hits the major ones. I think most of the other topics could probably be covered with materials off of Cisco’s website. But since I haven’t actually taken any of the exams, I can only guess.

For my reading list, I’ve mainly gone off of what was recommended on the Internetwork Expert site along with what others have recommended on Internetwork Expert’s user forums.

Comment on SP study materials have arrived! by jrensink78

jrensink78 — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 00:22:02 +0000

I guess I’m not sure which book you’re referring to. I don’t recall seeing anything about that in the reading lists that I’ve seen.

Comment on SP study materials have arrived! by Abhinav

Abhinav — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 17:59:52 +0000

Nice compilation !

Would you have added any more books if this was your first certification (and not incremental to R&S) ?

I am planning to give CCIE SP written (first CCIE for me) in the next 3-4 months, and find most blogs/info about either SP lab, or from people who are doing SP as a second cert Hence some advice on tackling SP Written and Lab as the first cert would be very much appreciated !

Comment on SP study materials have arrived! by shivlu jain

shivlu jain — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 16:21:33 +0000

you should include the SDH book also.

Comment on Why I busted my butt to get my CCIE before mid-July by Yandy

Yandy — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 14:12:45 +0000

Congratulations on the arrival!

Comment on The big payoff! by jrensink78

jrensink78 — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 23:43:27 +0000

Meh… There are plenty of other images of these plaques out there where altering/removing mine wouldn’t make much of a difference. Plus, who accepts a photo of a CCIE plaque as proof of certification?

Thanks for the concern though.