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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:

http://netmasterclass.net/Merchant2/merchant.mvc?Screen=CTGY&Store_Code=NMC_Store&Category_Code=Cisco360

 

All the best,

-Bruce Caslow CCIE #3139

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.

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.

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 have recently added a few more bundles to fulfill user’s requests for product packages.

Bundles of NetMasterClass store

A new article is available in our Public PDF Library: CCIE Preparation Strategy - check it out!

Today we have updated our CCIE Written Preparation Product. We updated our question pool for the new exam blueprint (Version 3.0). We are also proud to announce we made many improvements to the TESTiT engine based upon student feedback.

New features include the following:

• You may narrow test to a specific topic domain to master a topic that you struggle with.
• Our TESTiT engine allows you to eliminate questions that you already answered correctly once, twice or four times on your choice!

Existing users will receive this update free of charge – new users can purchase now!

Besides that, starting from today we would automatically post a new “question of the day” on the CCIE Written Preparation page, so you may bookmark it and come back often!

New LEARNiT - CAT-QOS Module