Come see us this year at Cisco Live! in San Francisco, and have the chance to meet the staff that has helped hundreds of systems engineers and other experts achieve their CCIE certifications!
- Val Pavlichenko, along with Bruce Caslow, founded NetMasterClass in 2001, with the goal of creating the best training materials that candidates could use to achieve their CCIE. Together, Val Pavlichenko and Bruce Caslow, helped write the famous CCIE Prep book “Cisco Certification – Bridges, Routers, and Switches for CCIEs in 1998.
- Bruce Caslow, one of only 20 Cisco 360 Instructors in the World, has been teaching CCIE preparation for over 12 years. Bruce has also been and still is a major developer of learning content for the Cisco 360 Program, which helps students consider all configuration options, so that they can spot hidden issues.
On this event, we will go into deep detail and describe the Cisco 360 Learning Program for R&S. We will talk about the different ways that candidates may prepare for their CCIE, including the Self-Paced Study route, the Instructor Led in Class Training route, and the Mentoring route.
There is no other place where you get the chance to have over 3000 technology experts from the industry and Cisco.
Visit us at the Certification Lounge June 26 — July 2 July, and be on the lookout for special one-time offers on some of our products!
Location: Certification Lounge.
Time: Wednesday, July 1st, 2009.
- The Self-Study Path consists of Classes on Demand, a very challenging Exercise Workbook, 12 Graded Assessment Labs, and the Reference Library. We will discuss the importance of each of these products, and answer any questions the candidates may have about them.
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The Instructor Led Training Path consists of 2 Boot Camp courses:
- Advanced Workshop 1 is a course meant for a CCIE candidate who is very deep into their studies, and has mastered the basic fundamentals covered in the CCIE blueprint. The class is designed to be taken 3-6 months prior to an actual exam date, and its main emphasis is to help a student determine what “they don’t know” by targeting their weaknesses, thus expediting their studies by helping point them in the right direction.
- Advanced Workshop 2 course however, is designed for candidates who are on the “verge” of taking their actual lab exam. Students taking this course are on the final stages of their CCIE preparation, and are just in need of tons of hands-on practice, and confidence building. This course should be taken a month or so before the student’s actual lab date.
I wanted to take a minute and briefly discuss a new development with Cisco 360.
CISCO 360 IS UNBUNDLED
All of Cisco 360 products have become unbundled. This means you can purchase only the Cisco 360 component you need when you need them. With this said, one can begin purchasing individual components of Cisco 360 for just a few hundred dollars. As you go through the Cisco 360 program, you can pay as you go if you’d like. And of course, you can use your Cisco Learning Credits to pay for Cisco 360 products and services.
This unbundling provides lots of flexibility for students with limited funds. Not only does it provide purchasing flexibility, it allows for CCIE students to mix and match Cisco 360 purchases with other vendors CCIE learning products such as InternetworkExpert and Narbik’s workbook. I think we all agree, no one has a monopoly on great ideas. The “open architecture” of Cisco 360 allows for students to purchase only the components they want from Cisco 360 at the time they want. Students then have the option to use whatever other CCIE learning resources they want.
25 CISCO 360 INSTRUCTORS AND MENTORS
Furthermore, these individual components can be bundled with training courses and on-line mentoring services to create a complete end-to-end CCIE preparation program. One very exciting aspect of the Cisco 360 program is that there are now 25 Cisco 360 certified instructors and mentors spread all over the world. And I must say, each one of them is a world-class instructor and mentor dedicated to delivering the very best in CCIE training and coaching. It has been a real pleasure working with these 25 instructors and mentors. Many of these new instructors were trained by Bob Sinclair, who has been a frequent contributor to GroupStudy over the years. It is my opinion that Bob is the very best CCIE instructor in the world and Bob speaks very highly of the many Cisco 360 instructors he has trained in the US, Europe, the Middle East and Asia. Bob will be going to Japan in a week to train seven more Cisco 360 instructors.
With the unbundling of Cisco 360 products and the large supply of 25, soon to be over 30, Cisco 360 instructors/mentors, the price of quality CCIE training should be falling. While many grey market CCIE companies provide excellent products and services, none of them have 25-30 CCIE instructors/mentors. This will dramatically change the CCIE training landscape. Currently, there are only a handful of CCIE instructors and no structured CCIE mentoring services in the CCIE marketplace. With Cisco 360, the pool of instructors and mentors is dramatically increased and this will give anyone that is pursuing their CCIE many more training and mentoring options. Competition and choices among learning solutions is a very good thing for CCIE students!
GRADED ASSESSMENT LABS
A suggested starting point in using Cisco 360 products is to purchase the Cisco 360 graded assessment labs individually or in bundles. These graded assessment labs provide an excellent measurement for one’s level of readiness to attempt the actual CCIE lab. They also provide voluminous feedback to maximize the learning experience. These graded assessment labs are most certainly not “unproven technology”. They apply the former CHECKiT lab technology of NetMasterClass. This technology has been deployed and developed over the last five years. To my knowledge, no other CCIE training company has the level of experience in developing graded assessment labs as Val Pavlichenko and his software team at NetMasterClass. This team now is working for Cisco to develop a full range of graded assessment labs. This of course includes all Cisco 360 graded assessment labs. Currently, there are 12 graded assessment labs available in the Routing and Switching Cisco 360 program. Many people perform several of these graded assessments to establish a “trend of performance” to help indicate their level of readiness to attempt the actual CCIE lab. Many like to combine this with Cisco 360 mentoring services to obtain coaching and guidance along the way. Mr. Bill Burns of RackTimeRentals is one of these Mentors! Great job Bill! : )
To get a good understand of the new a la carte purchasing options available with Cisco 360, go to the following NetMasterClass link:
Cisco 360 Learning Program Individual Self-Paced Products are available
Now everyone can buy the modules one want at the price everyone can afford.
Check out new Individual Products (À La Carte) section in our online store.
Benefits of the Program
- Flexible, 24/7 access to labs and content
- Program duration is six months up to one year
- Expert-level mentoring and training from the IT industry’s elite CCSI instructors
- Rigorous, comprehensive program reinforces knowledge learned through ongoing, online assessments
- Authorized Cisco Learning Solutions Partners selected by Cisco to deploy the program
NetMasterClass is proud to be one of the first Cisco Learning Partners to offer the Cisco 360 Learning Program for CCIE Routing and Switching,
the new Cisco authorized CCIE training program.
This program has been beta tested with hundreds of engineers with great
success and uses the same methodology for training that NetMasterClass
has made famous.
The Benefit of Purchasing the Cisco 360 CCIE Learning Program from NMC
When you purchase a Cisco 360 Learning Program from NetMasterClass, you get the following benefits:
- You get to interact with and receive services from the actual developers of the Cisco 360 Learning Program. Consequently, you will receive instruction and mentoring from NetMasterClass staff that intimately understand how to use all of the tools in the Cisco 360 program. This includes: applying the issues spotting and options
analysis learning and troubleshooting technique, performing ongoing trended assessment and using the Mentor Guide. - You get the benefit of working with instructors and mentors that have over ten years experience.The NetMasterClass technical staff has taught and mentored thousands of students over the last ten years. When you become a student of NetMasterClass, you will benefit from this extensive experience.
From these benefits, the NetMasterClass team can guide you through the complex multi-stage CCIE preparation process. In doing so, the NetMasterClass team can adjust and calibrate your lesson plan and assist in getting the most out of the extensive set of learning tools and resources found in the Cisco 360 CCIE learning program.
As you know, we put a lot of work in R&D and that is why our CCIE preparation products are constantly evolving.
The new SHOWiT engine looks quite similar to the previous version, however there are a lot of changes on the inside. It is faster, cross browser friendly and feature rich.
NetMasterClass has been using and refining the Graded CHECKiT Lab technology for over 5 years now. With a dozen of different scenarios and experience gained through processing over 3000 CHECKiT takers, there is no surprise that the product is very popular among CCIE candidates.
In order to meet the growth in demand and popular customer requests, NewMasterClass developed a system that automates the lab scheduling process and allows a candidate to schedule his/her lab just through the web portal. You can now always see what the status of your Lab is and if needed you can reschedule it using our web portal.
We always happy to hear your feedback, because this helps us better serve the needs of you and other clients.
Our team is about to leave for sunny Florida for Cisco Networkers’08.
We look forward to seeing our old friends, former students and meeting new people.
See you in Orlando!
P.S. You can see updates on what we are doing on our twitter account:
http://twitter.com/NetMasterClass
update: June 24th 11:35am
We’ve just listened to John Chambers’ keynote. Cisco has a great vision about the new ways of coloboration powered by the ”netwok as a platform” concept. This increases the role of individuals within IT organizations; provides new business opportunities and enables smaller company to work with Cisco and help them fulfill this mission.
Available only to selected group of beta students at first we are proud to publicly release two new Classes-on-Demand!
Each class has about 7 hours of video presentations, supporting quiz questions and topic specific DRILLiT Labs! Click on the links below to check out the details.
Link-Layer Connectivity Class-on-Demand
This Link-Layer COD provides an excellent starting point for your CCIE
preparation studies. The series covers a foundational topic in
internetworking — attaining IPv4 unicast connectivity on a
per-subnet/link basis.
Interior Gateway Protocols Class-on-Demand
Once you have reached level of comfort with Link-Layer related
technologies, you will need to build on this with mastering the
Interior Gateway Protocols. This IGP Class-on-Demand series provides a
series of self-paced learning activities that you can perform to master
this subject.
See our store for pricing of these products and their bundles. Also, users of existing CODs may purchase these new Classes with a discount!
We are pleased to announce that our incredible instructor Bob Sinclair has just delivered our fist class in United Kingdom. Over a week’s course the students have learned about our “Spot thy issue” approach, went through a numerous presentations and practice labs and performed 2 Graded Labs. With a solid roadmap and knowledge about what to study next - they seem to be quite happy with the class ;-)
Our new facility location:
11111 Sunset Hills Rd
Suite 160
Reston, VA 20190
With the growing demand on classes we now want to accept 10 students in a class. The new office gives us a bright dedicated training room.
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We have moved all out equipment to local collocation facility to ensure that CHECKiT (our Graded Assessment labs) can be performed at ll times.
The updated schedule covers our training through over August 2008:
http://www.netmasterclass.com/CCIE/Training-Classes/Schedule/
Please contact India Teller if you have any questions.
Looking into 2008 we expect to see a lot of our students and partners to happily archive their goals. We would always do our best to help you on your path.
We have recently added a few more bundles to fulfill user’s requests for product packages.
Bundles of NetMasterClass store
It’s Thanksgiving… It’s a time for sharing and spreading happiness with all those we love…
NetMasterClass Team
Note: at the moment this gadget works only for DOiT-II Sample Lab
We keep working on new ways to integrate our tools with your life so that you could achieve your goal of becoming a CCIE® faster. This new iGoogle Gadget for DOiT-II workbook allows everyone to see the power of the SHOWiT tool.
Click “Random Command” for samples of commands that this tool supports.
We want to thank you, our users for valuable input in the improvements we have made. Please know that your feedback is carefully analyzed and used to improve your experience with our tools!
On-line access to any Cisco show command on all devices of a properly configured pod – that is what SHOWiT gives CCIE candidates.
Main Improvements in SHOWiT v5.00:
- Tabs that allow you quickly switch between devices
- Improved dynamic help (support of Tab and ?)
- Customizable font-size and layout style
- Ability to “Hide Headers” and see only the engine itself
Now our CCIE Learning Portal users may enjoy the faster page aggregation, improved usability and user inspired rating system!
We keep working hard on maximizing your learning experience with our
products. At this moment you already can see some changes being made, however remember - that’s just the beginning of a major upgrade to our My-NMC learning portal!
Let us know what features you want to be upgraded or added. Your Feedback is very important for us and highly appreciated.
BTW, now our classes are listed at:
http://www.training-classes.com/providers/00/29/2927_netmasterclass_llc.php
That’s been a while since our last update of this tool - now we happy to announce that it is part of our new “Free Resources” section of web site!
What is Self Assessment RoadMap from NetMasterClass?
This tool is
designed to help determine your level of readiness to take and pass the Routing
and Switching CCIE lab. It is our recommendation that you complete all the Phase
One topics before moving on to Phase Two or Phase Three. The scoring of this
assessment is weighted to reflect the importance of different topics listed in
the matrix.
Take look at this updated tool:
http://www.netmasterclass.com/CCIE/Free-Resources/CCIE-RS-Lab/Self-Assessment/
Well, as I was writing this post, I realized that I’ve already made a similar post in June. Now, though - there are way more changes ;-)
The main goals were:
- improve usability of the website and
overall user satisfaction (improved navigation, consistent format, readable
URLs, etc) - increase website’s page rating in
search engines (URL structure, online bookmarks,
content)
make life easier for webmaster ;-)
(process of adding new pages to the web site and update existing
ones)
The whole informational structure is redesigned and proprietary Content Management System (CMS) was created. Everything is quite better organized and easier to find. Besides, we use Google’s Custom Search for business, which should make our visitors even happier.
We have added “Free CCIE Resources” section which we plan grow on a weekly basis, so come back to it often.