Re: [FW1] CCSA & CCSE

[bandit@FW1-NOSPAMzcore.net (Carl E. Mankinen)]

I disagree that the books are "very good".
They are full of mistakes....so many, that you would consider the price somewhat high.

However, the fact that you had to pull your pen out and mark up the doc so much
during the class probably helped to memorize some of the material.

CCSA is a marketing quiz primarily. (not massively difficult from an engineers standpoint)
CCSE was much harder. Lots of encryption, nat, aaa, guts of the FW1 product.
>From what I heard, most people do not pass without CCSA+6mo. experience with the product.

I took my classes and exams and MentorTech (they are good) and from what I heard
several CCIE walked into this exam and failed. We had one CCIE in my class and he
passed.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: <chris.prewitt@marchFIRST.com>
To: "Omar Dedovic" <od@ipro.se>
Cc: "Firewall-1 Mailing List (E-mail)" <fw-1-mailinglist@lists.us.checkpoint.com>
Sent: Monday, October 02, 2000 10:26 AM
Subject: Re: [FW1] CCSA & CCSE


> 
> 
> I just took both tests for Checkpoint 2000. The books they give are very good.
> Also there is one
> book out on Firewall-1. It was a good overview of the product. Also
> http://www.boson.com has
> pretty good practice tests that are cheap. There is a key gen for it on the
> internet somewhere. The
> new CCSE test is pretty tough, so study hard.
> CP
> 
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> 
> 
> Well when i took CCSA & CCSE it was enough
> to read through the books u get at the course.
> 
> If i remeber correctly it was 2 books Sec.Admin and Sec.Eng.
> Its also good if u have any "live experience" with the product.
> 
> I can only say 1 thing, DONT underestimate the little tiny details
> of the f.e Logviewer (Buttons, menu's etc..).
> 
> 
> Gl
> od
> 
> 
> "Thornton, Richard" wrote:
> >
> > group
> >
> > a huge shout out to all you very helpful people, your information is both
> > quick and accurate, i have never seen a list with so many competent members
> > who are willing to take the time to help newbies out
> >
> > is there anyone out there who has recently sat the CP2000 CCSA & CCSE exams
> > I will be booking these exams in a few months after I do the CP week course
> > at the end of this month.
> >
> > what I am looking for is good resources giving me guidelines on what I need
> > to know so i can read up and experiment with areas that i will encounter in
> > the exam.
> >
> > many thanks
> >
> > richard thornton
> 
> 
> 



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