Well I am now locked in for the 5th December for the 2nd attempt of the CCIE Lab Exam in London at the Mobile Lab. The lab will be taking place at Cisco Systems, London Office in Finsbury Circus. That gives me 89 study days to go!
7 x CCIE Neil Moore
There is only one person on the entire planet who has 7 CCIE’s His name is Neil Moore. Recently passing the CCIE Data Center exam Neil has added number 7 to his list and does not intend to stop there Neil says his next certification is going to be CCIE Service Provider Operations and then […]
INE 5 Day CCIE Troubleshooting Bootcamp – Final Thoughts
Well after 5 days of CCIE Troubleshooting tickets with 20 other students and Brian Dennis in London this week, I am back home and just trying to process what I have learnt! Day 1 – full write up here – was an introduction to troubleshooting, basic strategy and some technology basics, and then attempting to […]
CCIE Mobile Lab London
UPDATE: Since writing this post the CCIE Mobile Lab in London location has changed to Bedfont Lakes Cisco UK Headquarters Cisco Systems 9-11 New Square Bedfont Lakes Feltham Middlesex TW14 8HA Tel: +44 (0)20 8824 1000 Old post when I took the lab in Finsbury Circus I have moved my second lab exam […]
5 Day INE CCIE Troubleshooting Bootcamp Day 1
For the next 5 days I will be attending the INE 5 Day CCIE Troubleshooting Bootcamp with Brian Dennis in London. I am going to blog here my experience of this class, mainly for my own reference but also to help out anybody thinking of taking this class in the future. Although as any of […]
This week I am mainly doing Troubleshooting Tickets
In 7 days time I will be attending the INE CCIE Routing & Switching 5-Day Troubleshooting Bootcamp This is the one International location for this bootcamp and is held in London The CCIE Routing & Switching Advanced Troubleshooting Bootcamp is a combination of lectures focused on a structured troubleshooting approach and advanced hands-on troubleshooting tickets. […]
First CCIE Stuart Biggs dies at 53
The man who led the team that created the CCIE program has died at the age of 53. Stuart Biggs was CCIE #1025 He was a technological genius who helped to develop Cisco’s first company website and world renowned CCIE certification program At first it was going to be called Cisco Top Gun but then […]
7 CCIE Strategy Mistakes – What I will do differently next time!
Download the PDF here Although at the time of writing I have not yet passed the CCIE Lab Exam in Routing & Switching, but I wanted to write down my 7 CCIE Strategy Mistakes that I made on my journey so far. I have come a long way and have learnt a lot. My journey […]
CCIE Lab Attempt #1 Brussels – Close but no Cigar!
Well I have returned from Brussels after my first attempt at the CCIE Lab Exam in Routing and Switching in Brussels and sadly on this occasion I did not bring home my digits. Simple fact I was not fast enough on the troubleshooting and I did not verify everything as I configured which caused me […]
How to Study for the CCIE Lab Exam
Jeremy has just released a little video on how to study for the ccie lab exam. Tweet Jeremy got me through my CCNP and if you have not heard of him before you should check out some of his videos. Simple video with advice on how he studied to pass his ccie lab exam There […]
MPLS LDP Troubleshooting
When faced with a troubleshooting ticket involving MPLS you need to clear the basics first to ensure that everything is working from a Label Distribution perspective. First establish IGP connectivity between all the routers. Can you ping all the loopbacks? Are there /32 loopbacks configured on every router and advertised into IGP? Is CEF enabled? […]
How much sleep do you need before the CCIE Lab Exam?
How much sleep do you need is a question I have never actually got an answer to. This question has become very important at this point in my life as I am studying for one of the hardest certifications in IT the ccie lab exam. The exam itself is 8 hours long so I will […]
CCIE Questions and Answers
Bob McCouch CCIE #38296 has recently passed his CCIE in Routing and Switching and has done a great write up on some general questions about his approach to the lab and how his 2nd attempt was his passing attempt. The most important bit of info for me was his acknowledgement that to make it you […]
How to automate loading INE rack details to SecureCRT
I have started to use a lot more ccie rack rentals from INE and currently use Secure CRT as my terminal client. At the moment I am using the tabbed screens and to set this up you need to enter a different username for each device. Up until yesterday I was entering this info manually, […]