BEGINNING CCSP JOURNEY

[TheStressFactor]

Hello all,

I have decided to embark on the CCSP track. I have a few solid years of working with the PIX.

Most of my VPN knowledge is through the pix. I havent had much experience with the VPN Concentrator series and I was wondering if anyone had some good advice on the CSVPN test and some good starting out resources.

I am trying to get my hands on a concentrator but $$$ is a little tight. Does any sort of vpn concentrator simulator exist?

How did you all find the CSVPN test to be?

Thats all for now. I will let you know how my test taking goes.

Patrick

 

[chicocouk]

I've passed the CSVPN, SECURE and PIX exams, and the hardest was the pix. I've got decent experience with the PIX and concentrator, for exam questions i simply went with the bosons tests, did all the available tests until I was getting over 95% on them all, then sat the exams.

I was sent on training courses for all three exams though, so i had 4 or 5 day courses for each and the cisco notes beforehand.

For the concentrator exam, bear in mind that there are questions on the 3002 hardware client as well, and for the pix exam know a bit about the pix firewall module for catalysts switches (esp which slot it can be put in, differences between the FWSM and the pix, ie whether the FWSM supports vpns or not etc)

I'm not aware of any simulators for the concentrator i'm afraid.

Hope this is some help

 

[ndog4ever]

i passed the pix and the vpn tests recently, taking secure soon. VPN the hardest by far for me because I lacked a lot of hands on experience. There were questions on there that if you hadn't used one (hardware client) you would be in trouble. I used boson as well, no classes at all, just the cisco self study books. I would def recommend getting some hardware client hands on if you can. Pix tests a lot easier for me because i use i them in our network. GET BOSON. Hope this helps.

 

[chicocouk]

These labs may be useful, unfortunately the IDS ones don't appear to work

http://www.chinaitlab.com/www/experiment/lab5.asp

CCNA, MCSE, Cisco Firewall specialist, VPN specialist, wannabe CCSP

 

[Jsteve]

chicocouk
that is a nice site.

 

[chicocouk]

Yeah, shame i only found it when i've just got the IDS exam left to do ....

CCNA, MCSE, Cisco Firewall specialist, VPN specialist, wannabe CCSP