I passed the CCNP TSHOOT exam yesterday and I have to say that this exam was my favorite out of all the Cisco ones that I have taken so far. The exam format of solving trouble tickets was a welcome change that I felt was really applicable to an Engineer’s daily tasks.

The official Cisco Press TSHOOT book, Bull’s Eye exam preparation strategies, and building the official lab topology out in GNS3 helped me prepare for the exam. I did update my GNS3 version to 1.0+ and needed to convert my project files to the new 1.0+ JSON format with gns3-converter.