Rack Changes and Updated Vol 2 Troubleshooting for CCIE R&S
I'm currently working on updating the Vol 2 Troubleshooting labs. I'm changing a good portion of the tickets and increasing the difficultly level of each lab. So if you've done the Vol 2 Troubleshooting labs in the past it'll benefit you to go back through them. I'm also adding in a lot more layer 2, QoS, MPLS VPN and multicast related tickets. I hope to have this finished and uploaded sometime late next week or early the following week.
In addition to updating the Vol 2 Troubleshooting labs I'm currently working on a brand new Troubleshooting workbook for R&S. This one is based on a new rack topology that has 28 routers and 4 switches. Our new troubleshooting racks are being built now and we should start beta testing early next month. This workbook will support our new Troubleshooting racks, GNS3 and I even have a couple Cisco employees who are going to test the labs out for IOU support. Anyone who has our current workbook series will automatically receive the new Troubleshooting workbook free of charge.
I'll be making another post later this month or early next month regarding additional updates and changes to our R&S workbooks. As always current customers will get the updated workbooks free of charge. Keep submitting any issues for our R&S workbooks using the feedback form in the members's site. Weeks like this between teaching my brand new live R&S bootcamps I look through the reported issues to see if any updates are needed.
Over the coming weeks, you may notice blocks of racks being reserved as I'm having the 2600XMs removed and replaced with 2811s. The 2600XMs will replace the 2500s as the backbone routers. This will speed up the reload and rack reset times. The only changes you will see if that R1 and R2's serial interfaces will now be S0/0/0 and S0/0/1 in contrast to S0/0 and S0/1. R1 and R2 will also have an additional Ethernet connection to SW1 and SW2 along with BB1 being connected by Ethernet to SW1 Fa0/24. These changes will not affect the current workbooks and our rack automation has already been updated to support the interface changes.
Our new CCNA and CCNP racks are being finished this week and should be available for rent after the recording of the CCNA and CCNP bootcamp videos this month.
Lastly we will be releasing new mock labs between November and the end of the year. These new mock labs will be based on a different physical rack topology than INE's currently physical topology. I'll post more information regarding them in the coming weeks.
If you have any specific questions regarding the R&S workbooks feel free to email me directly or post your comment below.
Good luck with your studies!
Brian Dennis, CCIEx5 #2210 (R&S/ISP-Dial/Security/SP/Voice)
bdennis@ine.com
If anyone was wondering what they get for $300 when you add-on the printed option to the R&S CCIE Workbook bundle see the image below. Since I'm working on the updates, I ordered a printed set for myself. I've been working on the electronic versions and knew it was a lot of material but was surprised at the sheer amount of material it is when it's all printed out and laid on the floor in front of you.
