Personally, I suggest everyone who wants to be a real CCIE should make more general consideration. 1. Working experience: Cisco recommends one has at least 3 – 5 years experience in networking before attempting to become a CCIE. That means at least 1000 hours operating experience. 2. it’s only a hard working way to become a real CCIE, you have to spend lots of time (for me, about 15 months), thousands of $ for learning, practice and exam fee (at least $300+$1250, for me it’s $300+2*$1250 ). Although there do have someone who know nothing about network, they passed the lab just by following brain dumps, we called them as ‘paper CCIE’. If I were you, I’ll try my best to be a real CCIE; ‘paper CCIE’ means nothing but a good memorizer. 3. Which track? There are now 5 tracks for CCIE: Routing and Switching, Security, Service Provider, Voice, Storage. http://www.cisco.com/web/learning/le3/ccie/track_comparison/index.html you may read this for more info. I choose R&S for my first try because one of my daily jobs is maintain and optimize campus network, the technologies I experience everyday are almost similar with R&S exam blueprint. You can make your own choice for your own reason You have made your first step—having an idea to become a CCIE, think more and make a decision. We can discuss for more details later then.
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Hi
I want to take the CCIE but no idea the first step.
Please let me know
1. written ? testking enough ?
2. lab ? i need to buy the equipment ?
thanks
Personally, I suggest everyone who wants to be a real CCIE should make more general consideration.
1. Working experience: Cisco recommends one has at least 3 – 5 years experience in networking before attempting to become a CCIE. That means at least 1000 hours operating experience.
2. it’s only a hard working way to become a real CCIE, you have to spend lots of time (for me, about 15 months), thousands of $ for learning, practice and exam fee (at least $300+$1250, for me it’s $300+2*$1250 ). Although there do have someone who know nothing about network, they passed the lab just by following brain dumps, we called them as ‘paper CCIE’. If I were you, I’ll try my best to be a real CCIE; ‘paper CCIE’ means nothing but a good memorizer.
3. Which track? There are now 5 tracks for CCIE: Routing and Switching, Security, Service Provider, Voice, Storage. http://www.cisco.com/web/learning/le3/ccie/track_comparison/index.html you may read this for more info. I choose R&S for my first try because one of my daily jobs is maintain and optimize campus network, the technologies I experience everyday are almost similar with R&S exam blueprint. You can make your own choice for your own reason
You have made your first step—having an idea to become a CCIE, think more and make a decision. We can discuss for more details later then.