Starting on MPLS

I decided to cut the cord on the Juniper study. It isn't really relevant to my new job, and I really wanted to get onto my CCIP study (so that I can get it over and done with before I get back to CCIE study). I finished writing my notes and did the exam on Tuesday without much real revision. I missed out on passing by 4 points. I would have preferred to fail by a heap (at least then I wouldn't regret taking the exam so quickly).

I've started my study for the CCIP MPLS exam. There's a lot of conflicting reports on which books to use if you are self studying. I've read a few that say to avoid the Sybex MPLS book. It's a bit disappointing - I've found them to be good in the past. Instead I have decided to go through the Cisco Press MPLS Fundamentals. After that I'll take a look through the MPLS and VPN Architectures books to clear up anything that the Fundamentals book misses. If there's still some holes I guess it is off to the documentation CD. I guess I will probably skim through some MPLS sections on the DocCD - I got caught last time I did my CCIE Written and now I'm a little gun shy on doing an exam based on just one or two books.

So far I'm about 10% of the way through noting the Fundamentals book.