Cleared CCSE

[Phayder]

Hi guys,
I just passed CCSE today with 85%.

In my oppinion you should NOT rely on TK/AT stuff. Study all topics. Some questions are tricky and will test your deep knowledge on the subject.

I am still thinking about the benefits of CCSE+ .

Any positive reason to do it?

Kind Regards,
Adrian

[Tan Da Boss]

Hi,

first congratulations for your nice score.

Regarding CCSE+, it depends on what your job is.
For me it is very interesting (I'm working as support engineer) and I learnt most of the subjects described in the CCSE+ training by myself.
In fact, I discovered lately what the purpose of this training is. It is really debug oriented.
I think that it is very interesting if you are facing some productions' issues or maybe some integration's issues.
If you are consultant, maybe it isn't really usefull.

As soon as I will pass my CCSA/CCSE exams, I will ask my boss to pay me the CCSE+ course.

PS: do you have some 1.1 courseware to share? Mine are quite old (February 2006 Edition), I think it is 1.0 version.

Cheers,

Tan

[Phayder]

Hi Tan

Thank you for the advice. In my work I had over 200 CP platforms to manage and the debug is indeed necessary. I review the ATRG and is very useful. I guess I will take the CCSE+ somewhere in August. But I have to stop here. My company will never agree to send me in USA for the CCMA :)

Regarding the Courseware, I don't actualy have it, but a friend of mine took the course last year and has the version 1.0. I review it but realy the best way to learn is the PDFs from Check Point site. The material is very well explained and going in details. The courseware looks like a review compare with the PDFs.

So my advise is to download the free PDFs and study from there. In this way you will asure your success into all 3 exams.
Check Point is a brilliant software and beats Cisco Pix by far. Ofcourse Cisco is trying to catch the "floating line" with his ASA and MARS but they have a lot to work on it :)

P.S. for CheckPoint team:
When is going to be a test center in Europe for CCMA?

Kind Regards,
Phayder

[Tan Da Boss]

Hi Phayder,

you're right the ATRG is a nice document if you have any debug issue. I learnt most of the debug commands in this PDF.
I also discovered recently a pdf published by Nokia regarding the best practices.
If you are using their IP Security Platforms, you can take a look at it.
You should find it on Nokia website, it isn't in depth debugs/advices as the ATRG but they are some nice advices.

If you don't have access to their website, please let me know and I will send it to you.

From my side, I will have to take one or two weeks to focuse on the CCSA exam. I have all the documents from Check Point. Their documentations are very detailed and complete.

Cheers,

Tan

[elzilcho]

Originally Posted by Tan Da Boss

I have all the documents from Check Point. Their documentations are very detailed and complete.

Do you mean the pdf user guides you can download from their website? Or is there somewhere else to get this documentation?

Thanks

[Tan Da Boss]

Hi elzilcho,

yes, actually I meant their user guides (pdf) which are available on their website.
I will try to scan the courseware I have but it will take a while (2 books ...)

Tan