Passed with 80%, 110 questions and 140 minutes (since I live in a non english speaking country ;)
What I did to prepare:
Worked with Check Point products for 10 years ;)
Read the R70 CCSE courseware (Thanks to Lotta)
Read the R71 pdf's for IPS, SmartWorkflow, VPN (Route Based VPN), Advances routing, SSL VPN, SmartEvent, DLP, PerformancePack, SmartReporter
Downloaded and went through all the Practice exams available from Check Point (real exam questions)
Actually I think that the quality of the exam questions have improved. Not that much twisting of words any more but some times you need to think "The Check Point Way". I failed miserably on the SSL VPN section (36%) but I guess it's because lack of experience.
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