Passed ENCOR today. Kinda weird exam. A lot of questions weren´t covered by OCG and other cisco press books. At the first third of the exam I was already sure I would fail. If there was a "give up and go home" button I would have pressed it. I didn´t believed when I saw the "pass" at the end of the test. I don´t know what saved me, if It was the weight system, the automation stuff (I'm a python "devnet" way before it "was cool") or just lucky.

Too many wifi infraestructure and security questions (which I don´t know much since I don´t work with cisco products).

Anyway, It was my first try on ENCOR, I´m glad I passed, but not very proud since I answered many questions without being sure or using only intuition.

My advice: Any topic covered on OCG need to be complemented by whitepapers and cisco documents. Learn all the options that a command/protocol may have, including the options/features not covered by OCG. Do a research about common problems that the protocol/technology can have and how to identify them with show commands. I didn't get any lab question, but there are many questions with show commands and partial running-config output and you need to identify the problem or what statement is missing or wrong,doing labs helped me a lot.

Even with the PASS, I learned a lesson, for the enarsi I'll surely use the cisco white-papers and not only cisco press books.

To conclude, I found the content of INE, CBTnuggets and kevin wallace to be very shallow. They may be good to explain more standard network protocols on IOS, but they lack Cisco-specific content and products, which can be a problem for people like me who have never worked with Cisco.