Anyone started preparing for the DC written?

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Anyone started preparing for the DC written?

Apr 23, 2012 3:23 PM

CCRS

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Anyone started preparing for the DC written? May be we could start a study group or share our study plans.

I am planning to start with the config guides for Nexus, UCS and ACE.

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Sumit Mahla
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1. Apr 24, 2012 4:07 AM (in response to CCRS)
Re: Anyone started preparing for the DC written?

Yes... I am planning for this..
I infact work into cloud environment where all these devices are deployed...

Please share your plans..

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mohammedak
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2. Apr 24, 2012 4:41 PM (in response to Sumit Mahla)
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I am also planning for Written, i already finish vcp, ucs support n design. Also planning for DCNI and DCUFI next month.

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Chris Riling
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3. Apr 25, 2012 12:23 PM (in response to CCRS)
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I will be in the CCIE written class from IP Expert this summer / fall. I'm more interested in how lab prerparation is going to work with an expensive blueprint like that...

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Sumit Mahla
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4. Apr 25, 2012 8:24 PM (in response to Chris Riling)
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I would not go in for any bootcamp atleast for written... for me it there are lot of resources available from csco press books, Cisco Live ppt, cisco design documents and youtube....

I would suggest search the material on google.. you would find lot to study....

I am actually a self study guy.... We can always share our thoughts about learning process and our doubts...

Lets make a group and start studying .... I am planning for Lab by end of this year. that is last quarter...

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Chris Riling
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5. Apr 25, 2012 8:35 PM (in response to Sumit Mahla)
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I know the instructor pretty well, I trust him, this is my 2nd ccie. There are some points on the written where I think I'm in very good shape, and some points where I'm in not so good shape, so I think it will help. I do agree though that the material now will be suspect being that its so new.

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Sumit Mahla
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6. Apr 26, 2012 2:19 AM (in response to Chris Riling)
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Thats good... I have nothing against any one of these training provider... However i really prefer to first give it a my 100%, when i feel i am now done then i would think abt going for instructior or not...

Everyone ... lets make a study group here or in anyother website... What are your timelines ?

And what do you expect the value of Prestigious Data Center CCIE to be in next 2-3 years ?

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7. Apr 26, 2012 11:24 AM (in response to Sumit Mahla)

Re: Anyone started preparing for the DC written?

Folks , looking at the various config guides, it seems there are roughly 10,000 pages of documentation of just config guides and we have about 50 days to go till the last day of Beta. That comes to about 200 pages per day.

Theres no way I can possibly do that. Still I'll try my luck. For now my plan is to cover ACE & N7K.

Please share your tricks / thoughts on taming this monster.

Please note the the list below excludes troubleshooting/config examples,design guides & all docs for DCNM & nexus 1000v. There will be some overlap between n5k & n7k docs.

ACE Quick Start Guide	138
ACE Routing & Bridging	248
ACE Security Guide	422
ACE SLB	678
ACE SSL	226
ACE Admin Guide	360
7k fundamentals config	144
7K Interface config	304
7k QoS config	174
7K Security	728
7k System Mgmt	386
7K Unicast Routing	566
7K Fabric Path	94
7K & MDS FCOE	62
7K HA	54
7K L2 Switching	226
7K LISP	42
7K MPLS	528
7K Multicast Routing	178
7K OTV	68
7K SAN Switching	286
7K VDC	84
7K Config Limits	14
MDS CLI Config guide	1488
UCS gui config guide	762
2K sw config guide	42
5k Fundamentals config	146
5k L2 switching	324
5K SAN config	286
5K security	266
5K QoS	82
5k adapter fex	34
5k fabric path	76
5k fcoe	48
5k systems mgmt	214
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krunal
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8. Apr 26, 2012 11:33 AM (in response to CCRS)
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I do not think MPLS will be part of exam it is not listed clearly in blueprint. Also for LAB Multihop FCoE may not be part of exam as there is no FCoE line card support for MDS 9222i and N7K does not have native FC ports, unless exam ask you to do some wiered FCoE config like N5K-1 -> N7K -> N5K-2 -> MDS.

Also You missed all MDS configuration guides.

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CCRS
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9. Apr 26, 2012 3:05 PM (in response to krunal)
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Multihop fcoe can be implemented using n5k - n7k.

MDS config guide is included.(just combined the pages)

MDS CLI Config guide 1488

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Sumit Mahla
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10. Apr 30, 2012 5:24 AM (in response to CCRS)
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Hello Everyone...

Where can we get recommended reading list books at a discounted price (apart from Cisco Press)?

I am looking for I/O Consolidation and UCS book ...

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Mohamed Hesham
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11. May 6, 2012 3:12 AM (in response to CCRS)
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Hi all
i also prepare for this beta exam i study from
NX-OS and Cisco Nexus Switching (ISBN-10: 1-58705-892-8)
Cisco Unified Computing System (UCS) (ISBN-10: 1-58714-193-0)

what else recomanded topics any one know ?

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Mohamed Hesham
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12. May 10, 2012 1:06 AM (in response to CCRS)
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https://www.facebook.com/groups/359327710794724/

CCIE Data center beta exam prepare

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Jeroen Wittock
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13. May 26, 2012 3:17 PM (in response to Sumit Mahla)
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You could consider the safari online bookstore account. There you have thousands of books including all the ones on the recommender reading list.

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