After using their materials for over 6 months now I decided it was time to attend a CCIE Bootcamp – Run by www.ine.com the course takes the form of a 6 or 12 day experience.

I have booked onto the 12 day course which is actually 2 x 6 day courses. The first 6 days are technology based with some focussed lectures and then focussed labs.

So far we have done Layer 2, Internal routing, external routing, multicast, IPv6. tmw is IP services and QOS and then Saturday is MPLS.

Week 2 is mock lab time with 6 x full labs which are timed and marked with a review at then end of each day on the lab in question.

The course is held in the Devere Hotel in Newport Pagnell and the days run from 9am until everyone is ready to leave – so far the days have been finishing around 8-9pm. With some of the guys staying later to finish a particular topic. Our instructor is Marvin Greenlee a triple CCIE who is on hand all day to answer any questions to which he does admirably.

The major benefit to this course is staying in the hotel and being away from the distractions of work / travel / home life and being able to focus 100% on study.

There are 8 candidates on my course all of whom are in their late stages of preparation for the lab and most hoping to sit the lab within the next 4-8 months.

I will post more after a few more days have passed as IPV6 has fried my brain tonight.

Luckily there is unlimited coffee and coke to keep us going!

8 days to go!