just a quick survey if there is anyone who has taken or attempted to take the above certs. for some partner level stuff within cisco -- i've got to bring some people up to speed on the sp side of things. we need some people passing the ccna and ccnp service provider courses. the easiest way is for me to run them through my own personal bootcamp -- but would settle for paying someone to do it for me (that whole, there are only so many hours in a day thing).
that being said -- since i'm only aware of the ie level topics -- what is covered on the na and np level stuff? i've read the bits from cisco -- but i'm looking for something a bit more concrete. any help would be appreciated. also -- if there are any training vendors that you have used for the above certs that i can audit and borrow from -- it would be appreciated.
Re-certified my CCNP with a re-sit of CCNP Switch last October. No IPv6, no wireless. Labs were AAA with DOT1X, MLS with EIGRP and a Spanning-Tree multi root bridge / path selection using cost exercise. The AAA/DOT1X is the most complex but a week of 1 hour sessions in the lab with config/erase start - reload --- config/erase start - reload and I had it nailed in about 4 mins. the rest of the Switch exam was pretty vanilla.