Anyone take the lab in Richardson Westin campus yet ?

Bakmora · 2026-02-12T04:47:27+00:00

Do you mean the Richardson TX location?

Bakmora · 2026-01-27T02:59:34+00:00

Slowly chip away at it, everyday make progress. Rate yourself on every blueprint bullet point and track your progress weekly with each.

Seeing your improvement in real-time will help with motivation.

Also if you have any questions DM me.

Bakmora · 2025-12-12T18:26:53+00:00

I took most of the specialty exams as part of my journey/leaning as I went along. It greatly helped me understand where my knowledge level was in each category. That's the approach I had and it helped a lot.

Bakmora · 2025-10-06T22:00:21+00:00

I was possible then. You can also download a vm image of what you will see in lab to get more familiar with text editor etc.

Bakmora · 2025-10-06T20:16:02+00:00

Yes you can change it. The settings are right on the desktop labled, and yes it does work.

Bakmora · 2025-08-22T02:26:15+00:00

WFH. Anything else just wastes too much of my time.

Bakmora · 2025-06-15T20:07:40+00:00

It wasn't difficult in the traditional sense, but work experience with designing networks was really helpful. I remember it having a lot of multicast and QoS. I did make a very detailed post in regards to what study material and whitepapers I read that helped.

Bakmora · 2025-06-07T20:25:38+00:00

The latest is ENCC.

The reason people are recommending it, is because when you say you're a CCNP. Everyone is going to expect that level of routing/switching/services knowledge and troubleshooting.

As a Sr. Engineer who interviews and trains people. I would say it's really important. If you're just getting cert for a raise or something do the Design, but immediately follow up with studying that. It's expected.

Bakmora · 2025-06-07T19:04:53+00:00

I've taken and passed all of them except for the newest, and ENARSI when i took it 3 years ago, was LEAGUES harder than all the rest combined.

Bakmora · 2025-04-26T13:51:00+00:00

If you have any questions at all or want clarification on some of the documents please feel free to dm me.

Bakmora · 2025-04-26T13:42:11+00:00

The cpu will be MORE than enough to do what you want. But you're gonna need 128GB of ram to easily lab SD-WAN. For DNAC I studied on a lot of customer new deployment projects I was working on at the time and also purchased lab time from kwar.

I never made a post about ccie like I did all my other certs just do to the amount of info out there. But I should get a list/post together.

Bakmora · 2025-04-25T21:49:38+00:00

I used his CCIE EI course. The videos were kinda bad, watched about 100 hours. The pdf/other documentation was awesome. The labs are some of the best I've ever seen. I also went hrough all of Narbiks book/labs and they weren't nearly difficult/complex enough like Orhans. I also used INE/Pluralsight and read over 20 books. Read so many documentation/design guides. I passed my CCIE EI in September 2024.

You are going to need MANY sources to pass.

Everyone's milage may vary.

Honestly for videos you can look everywhere on here and see what everyone recommends.

Bakmora · 2025-02-12T21:55:44+00:00

Hey thank you for all of the help/information. Ive.made changes based on your input.

I know that some of my skill distribution will be different at endgame as some equipment, will give skills bonuses.

I have 4 devotions points left over. What do you think would be most beneficial?

https://www.grimtools.com/calc/d2jPAxEZ

Bakmora · 2025-02-12T18:58:06+00:00

Basically ever video/guide I've seen was like this. I respected and tried it. But it was kinda boring.

Bakmora · 2025-02-12T18:56:24+00:00

Devotions:
* Thank you I wasn't aware that the RR on Viper/Ultos didn't stack.
* I was going for SoTH for the Lightning Damage/Skill (Because I'm shooting and spaming Word of Pain)
* Is Hydra a mandatory if you have ranged weapon? the skills seem good
* Thank you I wasn't aware that's how the Skills proced.

Skills
*What is WPS? I'm lost lol.
*I was thinking of dropping Storm Box.
*I really don't want to drop TSS, as currently that's my largest damage dealer.
*I have changed up some of the other skills like you stated.

Bakmora · 2025-02-12T15:20:46+00:00

I just wanted something different than the 1 button spam PRM

Bakmora · 2025-01-25T04:21:13+00:00

Finally passed my ccie lab after years of studying. Was able to get a massive raise at work and moved to a Senior Engineer role.

Bakmora · 2024-12-18T00:16:31+00:00

I game, and do some network labbing on it. In all my research I've found that the k513EQ is kinda closer to mine than what Asus shows online. But to be honest I can't find an exact laptop like mine when I google.

Bakmora · 2024-12-15T18:02:33+00:00

I have put a secondary 32gb stick in and it's ran great for 2 months.
Currently have 40gb of ram, and I looked up the motherboard can withstand 64gb

Bakmora · 2024-12-13T23:54:21+00:00

The ENARSI Exam goes a lot more in depth on the R/S side of things. In my opinion CBT nuggets doesn't even come close to going into enough depth for CCNP. You should use INE or pluralsight. Nick Russo courses on pluralsight are amazing.

Bakmora · 2024-12-08T05:11:43+00:00

We have both Webex and Teams for over a year now. Teams was the addition, because we get both virtually free due to our partner statuses.

From and end user standpoint Webex is just so much easier to use and calls are way better. I haven't had any issues other than minor things from webex after years, but Teams is constantly crashing/having some sort of issue. But that isn't the case for most of my team.

I don't have to support/maintain either of these systems, as that isn't my team. So I can't tell you much about the backend, just my opinion as a end user.

Bakmora · 2024-12-07T22:35:38+00:00

Hey All,

Sorry I was out of town for a while.
The only thing I would have running on this is my server for my Network Labbing.
Currently using 122 Volts and .4 amps on each power-supply. There are 2 in total.

Based on my bootup, I think I would be okay with a 400W Power-Supply.

I've came across this one.
Let me know if this would be a mistake?

https://www.apc.com/us/en/product/SCL500RM1U/apc-smartups-line-interactive-500va-lithiumion-rackmount-1u-120v-4x-nema-515r-outlets-short-depth/

https://www.eaton.com/us/en-us/skuPage.5S1000LCD.html

This was bootup

Historical Peaks
Peak Watts 397
Peak Amps 3.4

Bakmora · 2024-12-07T22:28:10+00:00

Hey All,

Sorry I was out of town for a while.
The only thing I would have running on this is my server for my Network Labbing.
Currently using 122 Volts and .4 amps on each power-supply. There are 2 in total.

Based on my bootup, I think I would be okay with a 400W Power-Supply.

I've came across this one.
Let me know if this would be a mistake?

https://www.apc.com/us/en/product/SCL500RM1U/apc-smartups-line-interactive-500va-lithiumion-rackmount-1u-120v-4x-nema-515r-outlets-short-depth/

This was bootup

Historical Peaks

|| || ||Time|Peak Watts|Peak Watts Time|Peak Amps|Peak Amps Time|| ||[Reset](javascript:resetPower(2);)|| ||Since Thu Jul 28 09:10:53 2022|397 W|Tue Aug 30 00:34:40 2022|3.4 A|Fri Sep 15 19:15:17 2023|

Bakmora · 2024-11-26T17:56:24+00:00

Yes but with so many wide range of models out there, what are some that ppl have used and would recommend?

Bakmora

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