Go CCIE Go!! - A Cisco Certified Internetwork Expert

I have used 3, Internetwork Expert, NetMaster and now I am doing IPExpert. While any of them will teach you the same technologies, the different ways they write up questions makes you think about technologies differently. Even if you don’t do all labs in all workbooks, workbooks are low enough in cost that it makes sense to look at more than one.
Here is my ranking:
1. Best for learning — Internetwork Expert 2. Best for giving you an idea of the number of pitfalls that you might run into — NetMaster 3. Best for zeroing in on some specific technologies, and tying to their COD — IPExpert.
I will say, though that for have a completely debugged lab, NetMaster is the best. The others have typos that can be confusing. I am about half way through IPExpert and still have a couple of months to go, so I am thinking about Narbik’s just to round myself out based on the many positive comments on Group Study.
I know a lot of folks use just one, I think that may work if you have the fortitude to really study the Doc CD, but I have a hard time with that. I tend to read what I need to do the lab in front of me. My attempts at the real lab exposed the fact that just one workbook may not force me into enough reading.
The only negative I have on NetMaster is that the labs are so difficult I think I would have just given up if I hadn’t done the Internetwork Expert workbook first. Some folks recommend doing the same labs multiple times, I find that I tend to remember them and just do the same thing I did the last time. (sometimes the same mistakes too.)
Bill
Joe Rinehart wrote: > I used the Netmaster DoIT lab workbook. I got about halfway through before > making my fifth and final attempt. One of the big pluses in my opinion is > the detailed explanations and online tools they provided…helped me grasp > some of the protocol concepts that eluded me before… > > —–Original Message—– > From: nobody@groupstudy.com [mailto:nobody@groupstudy.com] On Behalf Of > kmoorman@gmail.com > Sent: Thursday, August 14, 2008 8:02 AM > To: ccielab@groupstudy.com > Subject: which workbook are you using and why > > this is just a general question. seeking opinions > > I’m using Narbik’s Soup to Nuts.. I like the book without a doubt.. very > solid > workbook.. labs seem simple but always with a major twist .. very straight > forward clear explanations of what and why. Definitely a class I hope to get > the chance to attend. > > my 2 cents > > http://theciscotech.blogspot.com/ > > > Blogs and organic groups at http://www.ccie.net > > _______________________________________________________________________ > Subscription information may be found at: > http://www.groupstudy.com/list/CCIELab.html > > > Blogs and organic groups at http://www.ccie.net > > _______________________________________________________________________ > Subscription information may be found at: > http://www.groupstudy.com/list/CCIELab.html
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