Failed CCSE Today

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Got 68% required 70%.

Regarding AT (101 Question), there were only 40-44 questions that were in AT, others were totally different:

High Availability and clustering: 50%
Checkpoint QOS: 80%
Configuring Remote Access: 100%
Enabling Voice over IP traffic: 77%
Installing VPN-1 NGX and upgrading: 50%
Administrative Utilities: 0%
Configuring VPN's: 63%
Content Security: 80%

The thing that got me the most was the command line outputs, not much familiar with that.

Any suggestions to improve my weak points? links or tips or study guide for brushing up what I am missing.

[RobertGraham]

Read the CLI Reference PDF and practice the most common stuff in a lab env. You really should know how to fetch a policy from the gateway and how to clear VPN SAs using the CLI.

Actually, I think everyone should know how to check stuff with fw tab -t mytable.

[mcnallym]

Yes Check Point are battling to reduce the value of things like Testking/AT and other such tools as they don't want to go the way of the Microsoft tests and become devalued, with getting a reputation for paper qualifications but then have very little or no real experience. As such don't rely on the questions being in there.

At the moment Check Point certs are amongst the most valued by Employers, which is why more people seem to be going for them now, but seems to be leading to some concern at Check Point.

Do the labs and practice things like the CLI tools and check the knowledgebase articles for some pointers as well.

[stuartgreen]

Not to sound like too much of a brushoff, but you really need experience on it. There are some things which, unless you've memorised the possibly incorrect cheatsheets, are purely down to knowing the product. There will always be the poorly translated and just bad questions but we have to deal with these.

The administrative utilities should be burned into the back of your head as you'll be using these the most when things go wrong!