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I'm not sure if this is the right place to post this message but I passed my CCIE SP Lab in RTP on Thursday, Aug 7.  It was my first attempt and I only used the Internetwork Expert material to study with.  I must say this discussion board is a tremendous addition to the practice labs.  One thing I do want to mention is that it's probably time for the CCIE SP practice labs to be updated, there are some technologies simply not covered in the practice labs that you will see on the real thing.  I of course can't give away any details but I would make a careful comparison of what's in the practice labs and what's on the blueprint if I were you.  Some items on the blueprint cannot be tested due to the current IOS versions being used in the lab.  My only other tip is to really work on your time management and understand your limitations.  It was difficult for me but there were two questions on the lab that I skipped completely - both had the potential to break lots of other stuff and they would have consumed lots of time.  I'm not saying that is the best approach, but since I was able to identify what I call "sucker" questions, I was able to spend my time on the other parts of the lab that I knew I could do.  Thanks again Internetwork Expert - couldn't have done it without you.

A. Joe Mann
CCIE #17203 (R&S, SP)

I'm not sure if this is the right place to post this message but I passed my CCIE SP Lab in RTP on Thursday, Aug 7.  It was my first attempt and I only used the Internetwork Expert material to study with.  I must say this discussion board is a tremendous addition to the practice labs.  One thing I do want to mention is that it's probably time for the CCIE SP practice labs to be updated, there are some technologies simply not covered in the practice labs that you will see on the real thing.  I of course can't give away any details but I would make a careful comparison of what's in the practice labs and what's on the blueprint if I were you.  Some items on the blueprint cannot be tested due to the current IOS versions being used in the lab.  My only other tip is to really work on your time management and understand your limitations.  It was difficult for me but there were two questions on the lab that I skipped completely - both had the potential to break lots of other stuff and they would have consumed lots of time.  I'm not saying that is the best approach, but since I was able to identify what I call "sucker" questions, I was able to spend my time on the other parts of the lab that I knew I could do.  Thanks again Internetwork Expert - couldn't have done it without you.

A. Joe Mann
CCIE #17203 (R&S, SP)

I'm not sure if this is the right place to post this message but I passed my CCIE SP Lab in RTP on Thursday, Aug 7.  It was my first attempt and I only used the Internetwork Expert material to study with.  I must say this discussion board is a tremendous addition to the practice labs.  One thing I do want to mention is that it's probably time for the CCIE SP practice labs to be updated, there are some technologies simply not covered in the practice labs that you will see on the real thing.  I of course can't give away any details but I would make a careful comparison of what's in the practice labs and what's on the blueprint if I were you.  Some items on the blueprint cannot be tested due to the current IOS versions being used in the lab.  My only other tip is to really work on your time management and understand your limitations.  It was difficult for me but there were two questions on the lab that I skipped completely - both had the potential to break lots of other stuff and they would have consumed lots of time.  I'm not saying that is the best approach, but since I was able to identify what I call "sucker" questions, I was able to spend my time on the other parts of the lab that I knew I could do.  Thanks again Internetwork Expert - couldn't have done it without you.

A. Joe Mann
CCIE #17203 (R&S, SP)

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Due to a number of questions related to my previous post -- here are my observations regarding what is on the CCIE SP lab exam blue print but not covered by the Interwork Expert practice labs.  Please note that this is just a comparison of what is on the blue print vs. what is on the practice labs - this is not an indicator of what you will see on the lab - I just believe that to be prepared for the lab, you need to cover the entire blue print:

1) Spanning Tree
2) IS-IS (while on many of the practice labs, I would consider most of the scenarios rather basic IS-IS.  I believe it simply needs to be covered in more depth.  This could just be my own weakness though, since I was never exposed to IS-IS until I started studying for the SP lab)
3) MP-BGP for multicast
4) mGRE
5) AToM and L2TPv3
6) QinQ

Some of these topics you can pick up in the R&S practice labs.  It's also probably worth mentioning that while there are other features on the blue print that are not covered in the practice labs, I do not believe the current hardware and IOS versions in the lab make these very feasible to test (no guarantees of course).

Also, there are tons of IOS services that you could be tested on.  Lots of these can be found in R&S practice labs as well but at the end of the day, you just can't cover them all -- best to know the Doc CD so you can look it up quickly.

Best of luck to all of you and many thanks to others that have posted on this board.

Regards,

Antonio Soares, CCIE #18473 (R&S)
amsoares@netcabo.pt

Does anyone know if the workbooks have been updated at all since this was posted ?

Thanks

Steve

There was no announcement about update, so we can easly assume that there was no update :(

In addition, I just checked the latest PDF (electronic WB) and I don't see any changes so far. I'm comparing it to WB I was using a couple month ago.

Cheers,

Seba

Thanks alot Seba.