Re: Check Point FireWall-1 and CCSA

From: Wayne McGlinn (wayne.mcglinn_at_nospam.didata.com.au)
Date: 10/24/03 

Date: Fri, 24 Oct 2003 09:00:50 +1000

 From Checkpoint's website: "Certifications are considered current if they
are for the current major product release or the product release immediately
prior to the current release. As of July 10th, current certifications
include Check Point 2000 and Check Point Next Generation" So, there's no
need to update any Certification until a new major release.
http://www.checkpoint.com/services/education/certification/faq/index.html
Why none of the publishers have produced manuals? Doing a search on Amazon
shows at least 2 books that deal with CCSA/CCSE NG. One is co-authored by
Valerie Leveille, a long time respected CCSI (Checkpoint Instructor)
My knowledge? I've been installing, maintaining and teaching Checkpoint
since 3.0a. I'm also on the exam review committee for Checkpoint and was on
the courseware review committee for NG.

Wayne McGlinn
CCSI CCSE CCSA MCT MSCE MCNE
Brisbane, Oz

"Beoweolf" <Beoweolf-spam@pacbell.net> wrote in message
news:xLNlb.2881$wj3.992@newssvr14.news.prodigy.com...
> You may have greater access to insider information, thanks for sharing
your
> insight. As noted in the previous post, personal observation and
> opinion...speculation(?)... were the basis for several comments.
>
> Could you address why none of the major certification text publishers,
> writers have a produced/provided manuals, text - anything specific to
AI-NG?
> As a general rule, industry insiders are given access major revisions, so
> they can provide support, again from observation...that doesn't appear to
be
> the case in this release.
>
> There are many paths to competence, attending training classes (ATC) is
only
> one. Many candidates choose not to attend formal classes due to work
> commitments, costs, time management, dearth of competent training sites
with
> in a reasonable distance...the list goes on. The recommended "seat" time
> before attempting the exam was not at issue. Bringing it up only obscures
> the real issue.The question seems to focus on giving the interested
> (candidates, third party, service industry) audience sufficient time to
> react to and plan for the change over.
>
> There is no reason to doubt your point of view, but as much as previous
post
> indicated their source was opinion...could you reveal the source of your
> information?
>
> "Wayne McGlinn" <wayne.mcglinn@nospam.didata.com.au> wrote in message
> news:3f9758ba$0$95042$c30e37c6@lon-reader.news.telstra.net...
> >
> > "Beoweolf" <Beoweolf-spam@pacbell.net> wrote in message
> > news:y8xlb.1758$yr6.44887068@newssvr21.news.prodigy.com...
> > <snip>
> > Further, these changes seem to
> > > be strongly linked to the revelations of the 2000 security conference,
> as
> > is
> > > he development of NG-AI and the new test/certifications so hastily
> > > implemented.
> >
> > The development of NG-AI tests were planned and executed over about 6
> > months, certainly not hastily as you suggest. The pool of test questions
> > from FP3 was supplemented with the new features of AI. As for the
> > "revelations of the 2000 security conference" that was to do only with
> 4.1.1
> > (Checkpoint 2000), nothing at all with the new code in NG. The cd is
> readily
> > available from resellers, try, you'll be surprised. On the cd, under the
> > Docs directory are all the .pdf's needed to setup and administer the
> > firewall. The CCSA Certification is aimed at Checkpoint Firewall
> > Administrators with 6 months hands-on experience, not someone who picks
up
> a
> > book, reads and then passes the exam.
> >
> > Wayne McGlinn
> > Brisbane, Oz
> >
> >
>
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