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About me
All you ever wanted to know |
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Bootcamp dates, available slots
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Bootcamp
Where,
when, what, how much and such |
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Undocumented
IOS and Cat
commands,
secret engineer mode |
Links
interestings sites, CCO sites, other CCIE sites
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Test your skills
multiple choice, tough stuff
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| Tools and
utilities |
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Forums and Standards Bodies
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| Fun
Contact
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Disclaimer |
Downloads
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Comments
from and about
my bootcamps:
(more here)
"I am excited,
happy, pleased,
relieved, and
grateful to be able
to announce that I
am now the 86..th
CCIE in the world.
Thank you Heinz
for the great
bootcamp and al
l the follow-ups."
"You did an
excellent job of
not only
preparing us
technically but
most importantly
"EMOTIONALLY."
"I am very happy
to write that I feel
10 times more
confidence to go
for the CCIE LAB
after attending
your three week
rigorous/ tough/
evil training."
"It was really a
great time in Your
Bootcamp in
Augsburg.I have
learned very
much. The
exercises were
excellent and we
have got many
valuable
information. I will
recommend Your
training to all my
friends"
"I have highly
benefited via this
three weeks long
drill of router
configurations. I
especially like the
last week of
troubleshooting.
This is the most
common less
practised area in
the LAB
preparation for all
the candidates.
That was money
well spent"
"I will definitely
encourage people
to go and attain
your training as a
good pre LAB
training like your
boot camp is
quite essential to
pass the CCIE
LAB."
"....But, just
speaking for me,
without the
experiences from
the bootcamp I'd
never made it"
"..look at the CCIE
number below ..
you know who I
thank for that :-)"
"Thank you again
for all your
guidance. Your
class was by far
the best
experience that I
have ever had for
learning and
developing
networking skills
in a Cisco
environment."
"I really wanted to
express my
gratitude to you for
the bootcamp.
Your methodology
and experience
go together to
make a class tha
t is truly a learning
experience!"
"Thank you again
for your awesom
bootcamp as wel
l as being "THE
EVIL BASTARD"
-playing the
proctor role
throughout the
bootcamp. You
really have
prepared me well
technically and
most important of
all "emotionally"
for the exam. Like
I mentioned
earlier, I never
would have pass
without the
troubleshooting
week in your
bootcamp."
"I would like to
express my
deepest gratitude
for giving me the
priviledge to train
under you. I've
learned a lot from
the bootcamp,
particularly the
psychological
aspect of
preparing for the
exam. The
pressure you've
given us during
the training
became a major
contributor in
passing the exam
since it helped me
cope with the
demands of the
exam."
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CCIE:
the blackbelt of the networking/data communications industry.
CCIE: No other technical certification is as difficult
or as prestigous as the CCIE.
CCIE: a nod to the ultimate, the apex of nerds, the god
of geeks, the guru’s guru.
CCIE: by far the most difficult (and valuable)
CCIE: the gold star, the master level
CCIE: the elite of all internetworking industry
certifications
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HEINZ ULM's CCIE R & S BOOTCAMPs
How does it work ?
What's the content ?
What's the material given ?
When should you go to the exam ?
- CCIE is the most respected high-level
certification,
recognized worldwide as the "doctorate" of networking.
- Certified CCIEs are a highly-select
group.
Less than 3% of Cisco certified professionals become CCIEs.
- Passing the exams is not easy.
Hands-on
experience is the best preparation.
Our bootcamp is not like those training-classes
were a
"slide-show" is given and
most instructors read down from the slides and the student manuals are
hardcopies from the slides shown.
 
German location: Very spacy and quiet rooms. Click picture for more
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You get a binder with extremly complicated and challenging scenarios,
"challenges", which
you have to configure.The degree of complexity and difficulty is that
what you can
expect in the real lab exam, but my labs are probably harder.
(That's what I hear from the students all the
time)
The challenges test all areas that Cisco is looking for.
These
in-depth labs are an invaluable tool and help you tremendously to be
successful.
I address all features needed for the
routing and
switching one-day-exam.
Each attendee has a minimum of
7 routers of
his own to
configure (unshared !!!)
(In some tasks you must configure more. If it's not enough
for
you, I have more)
You are working via a terminal-server
just as in the
exam.
I'm emulating the lab-exam. And
I'm emulating/creating stress.
You must work completely on your own with
your own
pace, your own CCO-CD or CCO-web access.
There are no (official) breaks other than
the
lunch-break.
There are special
stress
exercises
which put you under extreme load.
Most attendees underestimate the
complexity.
  
German location: nice structured cabling, isn't it ? Click picture for
more
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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.
(my students call me the "evil
bastard", one
called the camp "porkhell,
germany")
Please note, that my bootcamp is 90 % hands-on, with a
morning
lectured session on most days, covering
the gaps and deficits which I discovered during my
monitoring.
During the morning sessions, there
are also lectures about addressing issues, bit splitting, ospf area bit
splitting, VLSM, undocumented
or barely documented stuff. By displaying configs with errors students
are challenged if they can find
quickly what's wrong, and are given hints and tricks how they could
have found it quicker and more efficiently.
Basic configuration tasks are not dicussed and must be understood
before you come to the camp.
I'm constantly monitoring what and how the attendees are configuring
during the day.
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.
Students receive a written list of "complaints"
after each
challenge, showing them the mistakes they made,
the severity for each mistake, the wrong or sub-optimal way of
configuring the particular tasks with hints and tricks.
The complaints-list is reviewed by the student and afterwards discussed
with me if there are disagreements
or if anything is left unclear. The complaints give the student the
change to avoid this errors in the next
challenge. Just by this alone, the student's configs get better from
task to task.
  
Germany: special lecturing, discussions and exercises outside. Click
picture for
more
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You get at least 2 CDs during the camp.
First, at the beginning, has loads of documents
and utilities all relating to the challenges and technologies needed
(around 600 MB)
(used to be 1400 pages of written material)
The second has all configs from all challenges from all class-mates,
the solution files, details about the VPN-settings and plenty more docs.
Between my bootcamp and the lab-exam you
should plan
approx. 3-4
additional weeks (including the VPN-weeks) for further studies, book
readings and practice to
fill all the gaps which you discovered during the bootcamp.
Please bring your own notebook, ethernet-pc-card,
WLAN-card (so you have)
Students
of my
bootcamps get free remote access to their racks
after the bootcamp via VPN/IPSec Tunnel.
(If you wire all your lan-ports via the 3550-switches, then you can
create all sorts of topologies to train with)
Read
here what
others said
about my trainings .
I like to maintain the worldwide known high standard
and reputation of my bootcamp
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I rather prefer one or two students less in my bootcamp than ones
who show up and
have never heard nor understood why OSPFs virtual links may
not
use Area 0 as the transit area
(just as an example).
Bootcamp is
tough, very tough:
 
If you don't configure nicely you'll be shot !!
Student
overthinking his configs....
 
Shot student
another one shot
 
another one shot
and another one
 
First warning: Shot into foot !!!
"Where is Heinz ?
I'll shoot the
bastard
!"
 
More shot students..... (in the meantime I get a discount at the local
grave yard....)
 
Look how they are finished.....
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Please read the article
CCIE Drill Sergeant
with more
info about me (the part of how the
bootcamp is conducted
and
structured is out-aged)
 
Lecturing while waiting for lunch
Discussion
outside
Desperate student on the right
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