How does it work ?
What's the content ?
When should you go to the exam ?
You'll get extremly complicated and challenging
scenarios, "challenges", which you configure.The degree of
complexity and difficulty is that what you can expect in the real lab
exam, but our labs are probably harder.
(That's what we hear from our students all the time)
You will be challenged on almost all test areas that Cisco is looking
for, including the newest blueprint of course. These in-depth labs
are an invaluable tool and help you tremendously to be
successful.
You will work on up to 40 Routers/Switches (unshared !),
Included is a dedicated troubleshooting task, MPLS/DMVPN, EEM stuff and lots of the Blueprint features.
You are working via a terminal-server just as in the
exam.
Workbooks, Layer 1, 2 and 3 pictures are all in separate windows (just as in the exam).
And we are emulating/creating stress.
You work completely on your own with your own pace, your own CCO-web access.
There are no (official) breaks other than the
lunch-break.
There are special
stress
exercises
which put you under extreme load.
Please note that you are working deep into the night each day, plus on the weekends.
Most attendees underestimate the complexity.
The challenges start with a fairly complex one and the
complexity is increasing from task to task and day to day. The
complexity is
similar to what you can expect in the real lab.
Please note, that our bootcamp is over 90 % hands-on, with a morning
lectured session on most days, covering the gaps and deficits which we discovered during our monitoring.
During the morning sessions, there are also lectures about addressing issues, bit splitting, ospf area bit
splitting, VLSM, undocumented or barely documented stuff, hints, tips and tricks, do's and dont's.
Basic configuration tasks and the theories are not discussed and must be understood
before you come to the camp.
We assume you are in the final stages of your path to CCIE.
We are constantly monitoring what and how the attendees are configuring
during the day.
During the mocklab- and troubleshooting-day students are
asked to install VNC
or Teamviewer so that we can even see their keystrokes the
moment they enter them (just as in the exam)
If there is/are missing knowledge and/or missing tipps and tricks, do's
and
don'ts common
to
all of them, it will be discussed/lectured in the morning sessions. If there is a knowledge-gap
just with one person then there is a 1:1-discussion/lecturing with that person only.
As our student you will get constant feedback from
us because we keep telnetting throughout the whole day to all devices.
We analyze Syslog and SNMP messages from your pod.
We make notes about the mistakes or "sub-optimal" configs. However we
do not let you know about your mistakes immediately. Instead we watch
to see how long it takes you to find out that something is wrong and
how you are trying to fix it. If the case is not solved within a
certain time window you will get a hint about the problem and/or
solution. We do never fix a problem for you and we never change a
config.
Between our bootcamp and the lab-exam you should plan
approx. 3-4 additional weeks
for further studies, book
readings and practice to fill all the gaps which you discovered during
the bootcamp. If you need more rack time we can offer very affordable
and competitive rack rentals to our gear.
Please bring your own notebook with Ethernet port (preferred) or
WLAN-card (so you have)
