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Just took the new Switch exam
Just took the new CCNP Switch exam and failed it. I studied for over four months for it, read the study guide and a few others, and still failed it with a 590. Talk about disappointment! I found that only about two thirds of the material that was Medes to pass the exam was covered in the study guide and fallow on readings. Difinately not like the former exam that was discontinued last year.
FYI, I do have my CCNA and other certs for my current Net Admin position in Iraq. I currently run a small network of about 200 nodes that includes both data and VOIP devices along with a few routers and several switches. Sat comms too.
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How much hands on were you able to do for practicing labs? Outside of your production network daily tasks?
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Sorry for the delay in responding, but I have spent the last several days traveling through Iraq back to my base. Now that really sucked.
As for the the questions posed, here are the answers:
aclman
What did you use to study for the switch exam?
I used the CCNP Cert Kit with that comes with the Video Guides and the new CCNP Switch exam study guide. I watched the vids several times and read through the book a few times while at the office. I also purchased the Boson CCNP NetSim product and went through the labs. Good one, that.
The Boson labs were pretty good, plus you can design a similar virtual network to your live one in it. Helps with troubleshooting.
Kfalconspb
How much hands on were you able to do for practicing labs? Outside of your production network daily tasks?
Other than logging in and checking the live configs and the occasional port recofig, adding a new device, IOS re-imaging or troubleshooting, we are not allowed to really change anything on the switches or routers unless directed by the NOCs in VBC/Baghdad. Consider what is at my site to be the 'access' layer of the network and the 'distribution' and 'core' layers to be the NOCs in VBC.
So for 'hands on', I used the Boson product. It is a pretty good product, since you can load live configs into the virtual devices and troubleshoot live problems or just to see if you can improve performance of your live network.
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I hope you pass next time. Keep studying and you will pass it!
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FYI, I do have my CCNA and other certs for my current Net Admin position in Iraq. I currently run a small network of about 200 nodes that includes both data and VOIP devices along with a few routers and several switches. Sat comms too.
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