If you are like me, you could spend a lot of time taking classes.  I really enjoy them.  It’s not because I am an instructor but because the knowledge transfer in a training class is like no other.  The problem is, I have to work.  No doubt you have to work as well.  If that’s the case you have to find alternative methods of getting that knowledge transfer.

The good news is that I have found that solution.  If you imagine what you would get from a training class you would end up with the following:

• An instructor to guide you through slide presentations
• An opportunity to stop and ask questions as they pop into your head.
• A manual with exercises to help practice what you have learned

As the new IPexpert offering was made available it made me think about how to get all of the above without leaving work.  Here is what I recommend.

For the first point you can grab the CCIE Security Lab Video-on-Demand

(This is now part of the Blended Learning Solution.)

This will provide the instructor that guides you through the technologies.  The real benefit here is that you can pause, rewind, and replay.

For the second point, being able to ask questions, there is the Online Study List.

There are also a few benefits here:

1. It’s email based so all you have to do is shoot an email off to the list with your question
2. Multiple Instructors, former Students  that have passed the exam, and many of your peers that are currently working on the exam have the opportunity to respond.
3. You will usually get multiple replies within minutes.

Now for the third point, a manual of exercises…This is what my post is all about.  There are a ton of products out there that provide exercises you can go through.  Well IPexpert has just release another weeks worth of content that you have probably never seen before.  I’m talking about the CCIE Security 5-day Mock Lab Experience Class material.  This is for the version 2.0 blueprint so if you are like me, and trying to cram it in before a date that is sneaking up on you, this will help!

The new offering is called the CCIE Security CURRENT BLUEPRINT v2.0 “Last Mile” Prep Kit.

Take a minute to check it out.  It’s $450 bucks.  Now if that isn’t a sweet deal, let me sugar coat it: You also get 60 hours of rack time.

And don’t let me forget the sprinkles on top…..use this exclusive code when you checkout and get $50 bucks off!

coupon code: "GC_SEC"

Last but not least, I am not getting paid for this and I do not work for IPexpert.  I am posting this because $50 bucks off a product is a great deal, and I don’t mind throwing up a little word-of-mouth advertising for a company that I use and trust.  I am going through the first of the labs and will be blogging about the technologies, solutions, stumbling blocks and so on as I work on them.  My lab is March 16th.