CCIE Candidate

This is day 5 of Narbik’s bootcamp in Warsaw.

The class begins with a brief lecture on QOS to finish the lecture of Thursday.
Then we proceeded to Multicast. Narbiks style again was not to give you a mere
interpretation of the DOCCD but to put everything in a meaninfull context and to
create relationships between different areas in the technology.

The last part of Narbik’s lecture was about Lab Stratergy. He told us that the
important thing is that once you begin doing a workbook you have to finish it.
He also praised the 8 hours Lab workbooks from InternetworkExpert and IPExpert and
told us to do at least some of these labs.

We received a vast collection of material to work on;
01) The soup to nuts e-workbook (This is only for pre-bootcamp preparation)
02) The advanced ccie workbook consisting of five volumes
03) The Bootcamp workbook consisting of two volumes (498 pages)
04) Two mock labs
05) 17 PDFs with new material!

Narbik tells us to take the time to finish each volume and to make note of each
item we found difficult to accomplish. Then when we are finished doing all the
workbooks and PDFs we have to go back to our notes and redo the ones we found
difficult. Narbiks also tells us how to use the DOCCD as a reference.
One student noted that Narbik is teaching us how to become better engineers and
as a result of that to pass the CCIE Lab Exam.

The class ended at about 14:00 and than students began praising Narbik telling him
that this is the best class ever they attended. These dudes are not easily impressed
for they know a lot and several of them have at least one master degree in some
technical area.

For the skeptical reader. This was a retake of the bootcamp.
My first time was in Pasadena. I was not well prepared then and I had a
terrible jet-lag which lasted the whole week for I didn’t had time to
catch-up for the classes lasted 10 to 12 hours. This time I had no time
difference and I was well prepared. I paid for the bootcamp.
I blogged this five day bootcamp because I wanted to give the reader a
honest impression of Narbik’s bootcamp.

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