I completed the 10 INE vol2 labs a few days ago for the second time. I wont make this a long whining post, only a short simple whining post. These workbooks are riddled with an extraordinary amount of mistakes. It is really unforgivable that BrianM makes a comment on the forum “Hope you weren’t banging your head against this one too hard. The task should read level-2″. Two years later the task still reads Level-1. A simple change of a value from 1 to 2. Come on? Eventually, you loose faith in the workbook. I would suggest making notes of dodgy questions during the first round and using the SG. On the second round things went a bit smoother since I knew which questions broke the lab. Normally I would not suggest using the Solution Guide as figuring out the answers without the sg is the optimal learning method.
In summary, 1 or 2 good labs, 5 out of the 10 labs are completely broken, all labs are rough around the edges and all labs have some brief moments of brilliance.
Agreed. I’m planning on moving back to INE SP labs this week. Just need to knock out one more Vol 3 lab.
Comment by MrPaul — August 30, 2009 @ 2:44 pm
good luck with that one, i suspect lab5? Have you figured out a way to work around the cell mode (v2l4 and v2l5)? I created another router called LS1010 and then created the pvc’s and pvp via the dynamips atmsw.
btw, when is your lab?
Comment by 21500 — August 30, 2009 @ 4:52 pm
I could not agree with you more. This book is not up to par with their R&S materials… Labs 1-5 weren’t too bad… but Lab 6 killed me. I was left speechless.
If any good came out of it, I learned a lot in the process of debugging and doing show commands…
Comment by Derick — August 31, 2009 @ 2:57 pm
Would you reccomend using IPexpert than? I was planning to use INE for SP since they had awesome RS material. I also dont see AToM or L2VPNv3 on the VOL1 from INE. what gives?
Comment by John Spaulding — December 14, 2009 @ 8:03 pm
The INE SP offering is terrible. Not worth the money by a long mile. I find video training extremely boring, but many swear by it, so there might be some value for you there.
If I had to buy a workbook today, it would have to be the new consolidated IPX vol2.
My recommendation would be to use both.
Comment by 21500 — December 14, 2009 @ 8:17 pm